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I notice that Polestar got some additional features. I wonder if the XC40/C40 will get a projected range choice and historical graph.
Polestar 2 - P2.9 Release Notes
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Polestar 2 - P2.9 Release Notes
- YouTube app now available.
- Significant upgrades to Range Assistant app.
- Improved algorithm for instant consumption refined for more immediate feedback based on driver actions.
- Recent energy consumption graph available for last 20/40/100 km.
- Improved algorithm for projected range with more stable and realistic range based on driving style, ambient conditions, and vehicle load.
- Selectable projected range to be shown in driver display via app settings, in place of standard range projection.
- New features in Apple CarPlay.
- Navigation via Apple Maps now shows in driver display.
- “Play/Pause” and “Next/Previous” buttons now shown on home screen tile.
- “Now Playing” information now shown on home screen tile.
- Phone call information now shown on home screen tile and driver display during calls. Now possible to handle phone calls using steering wheel buttons.
- Improvements to FM radio connections.
Thanks for reporting this here. I would like to have a consumption graph -- I'd been thinking that the most likely place for it would be the currently empty bottom-right area of the Range Assistant app.I notice that Polestar got some additional features. I wonder if the XC40/C40 will get a projected range choice and historical graph.
Polestar 2 - P2.9 Release Notes
- YouTube app now available.
- Significant upgrades to Range Assistant app.
- Improved algorithm for instant consumption refined for more immediate feedback based on driver actions.
- Recent energy consumption graph available for last 20/40/100 km.
- Improved algorithm for projected range with more stable and realistic range based on driving style, ambient conditions, and vehicle load.
- Selectable projected range to be shown in driver display via app settings, in place of standard range projection.
- New features in Apple CarPlay.
- Navigation via Apple Maps now shows in driver display.
- “Play/Pause” and “Next/Previous” buttons now shown on home screen tile.
- “Now Playing” information now shown on home screen tile.
- Phone call information now shown on home screen tile and driver display during calls. Now possible to handle phone calls using steering wheel buttons.
- Improvements to FM radio connections.
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These kids say they are part of the same company.
techcrunch.com
Polestar and Volvo are the latest automakers caught in software purgatory
Polestar and Volvo Cars delayed the launch of their next EVs by several months because of software development snags.
techcrunch.com
It's confusing, yes. Nonetheless, Polestar and Volvo are differnet companies, widely separated at almost every level except financially. Personally, I do not understand why some of us think Polestar's software should, in any way, resemble Volvo's. I have no way of knowing, of course, but the two OS systems run on different platforms and perform different functions, albtough they could possibly come from the same company or development team.
From CNN:
Even while its cars are being built in a Chinese factories Polestar still clearly wants to be seen as a Scandinavian company. Its corporate headquarters is in Gothenburg, Sweden, just a few minutes away from Volvo’s. Scandinavian design, antiseptically simple, infuses even the headquarters building, a four-story ice-white cube with additional office space snaking out behind it.
Polestar will still rely on Volvo for some things. In the US, for instance, Polestar will have its own showrooms but the cars will be serviced at Volvo dealerships. Cars will be picked up from customers, taken for service and returned, though, so that Volvo connection will be largely invisible to customers, Polestar spokespeople said.
Polestar has also set up its own research and development center in Coventry, England. This will allow Polestar to concentrate more on its own technical challenges instead of just drawing from Volvo and Geely, said Ingenlath. Polestar will continue to draw from the broader family for components that don’t differentiate the brand while its researchers and engineers, while researching in new areas, also find ways to improve on or alter what the group offers.
From Voivo's media site:
“Polestar is our affiliate brand and an important business partner, as it plays a key role in our strategic direction to become fully electric by 2030 and shape the future of mobility,” said Johan Ekdahl, Chief Financial Officer, Volvo Cars. He added, “The financial support provided by us along with Polestar’s other main owner will ensure Polestar remains steadfast on further delivering on its ambitions as a performance EV car brand.”
To add to the confusion, Austrailian auto blog DRIVE says:
Today’s Polestar vehicles look similar to Volvo cars even though they wear unique sheetmetal – and share underpinnings with Volvo cars, as well as a number of interior components.
For example, the Volvo EX90 and Polestar 3 (pictured above) wear different bodywork, and have different numbers of seats (seven in the Volvo, five in the Polestar). But under the skin the two vehicles are identical, with the same dual-motor drivetrains, power outputs, and near-identical interiors – sharing steering wheels, centre consoles, seats, touchscreens, instrument displays, and more.
Polestar and Volvo on a collision course as both target electric-car customers
Polestar executives say future Volvo and Polestar electric cars will be sufficiently different.
www.drive.com.au
From wiki:
Polestar is a Swedish automotive brand established in 1996 by Volvo Cars' partner Flash/Polestar Racing and acquired in 2015 by Volvo, which itself was acquired by Geely in 2010.[3] It is headquartered in Torslanda outside Gothenburg, Sweden[4]with vehicle production taking place in China.[5]
Polestar Wants to Make Electric Cars like Tesla Does—Disruptively
Polestar is trying to take a Silicon Valley-esque strategy with its approach to building cars. The Polestar 2 gets the company some of the way there, but Polestar says its next will hit the mark.
www.autoweek.com
What is Polestar? Everything you need to know about the Swedish Tesla rival
Polestar is to Volvo what IKEA meatballs are to any other brand you might pick up at the supermarket: a superior Swedish work of art that manages to improve upon the competition in almost every conceivable way, even if, on paper, they sound like the same thing.
www.carsguide.com.au
The capacity for similar definitely but if they are different teams doing the software then there is no expectation for the same things to happen on both platforms.
Would it be sensible to have the two teams be integrated. Sure. But sense is not the driving force in the universe
Oddly polestar and volvo “compete” with each other.
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