Our Cars: Polestar 2 Performance Pack

For my sins, or otherwise, I’ve just gone all in on the world of EV motoring. Gulp. For the next six months I’ll be seeing if I can live with and, hopefully, enjoy a Polestar 2; in this case the top bananas Performance Pack version with twin electric motors, 469bhp and, says Polestar, a chassis that’s been tuned specifically to appeal to a driving nut like yours truly.

Up until now I’ve driven heaps of EVs, some of them good, a couple of them great, many of them less than troubled by genius. But never have I run one as a daily driver. And when I say daily driver, I really do mean just that.

I’ll have no access to any other car during my time with the Polestar, and because of where I live – in a flat in the middle of a city (Brighton & Hove) in which there is zero possibility of having a home charger installed – I will be entirely at the mercy of the public charging network. I have essentially volunteered myself as the human guinea pig to see just how bad the worst case scenario is when it comes to running a fully electric vehicle.