2020 Polestar 2 Design Analysis: It’s Electric, but It Doesn’t Look Like It

I have about how electric cars should appear no ideas. No one working in car design has any more certainty than I do. But I can tell you that this Polestar 2, pleasant as it is in conventional terms, is far from any Platonic ideal of an electric vehicle. Tesla is the world standard for electrical vehicles at present, but so far of its products–such as the Polestar 2–just resemble gas or diesel cars. Tesla’s initial Model S had a disgraceful black oval on the front to indicate a radiator grille. That was finally expunged at a facelift, and sequential designs such as the Model 3 never suffered the indignity of false frontal air intake grilles, since this Polestar does. This season ’s Geneva Motor Show was full of various electrics that either resembled Italian supercars or were Italian supercars–but with electrical propulsion. And there have been electrified versions of cars. Volkswagen and others offer electric standard sedans, hatchbacks, or SUVs that don’t disclose their method of energy consumption re close enough to read their badges. I believe rsquo & that;s just wrong.

That’s not a new attitude for me. I attended an auction of some of Bill Harrah’s collection 30-some years ago and was impressed by an air-cooled 1932 Franklin V-12. It had a tall grille adequate for any water-cooled V-12 but no radiator behind it. Given that from the early years of the century there had been identifying fronts on Franklins, I thought it was deemed necessary to have such a derivative, artificial aesthetic. So it’s sad this handsome Volvo-like sedan also has a derivative, artificial cosmetic. It’s a good-looking thing, but it does not in any way correspond to what I want to watch for a vehicle which has limited energy capacity and must be recharged over a long period. You can top up a liquid-fuel car a realistic self-serve moment, in only about five minutes. But the best electrics take longer–much longer–to resupply with energy. So they should be perfectly optimized as modern airliners, which have tail profiles that are distinctive as marks of identity for drag. Efficiency trumped styling.

With this and almost all other cars I’ve seen, disguising a & ldquo; real & rdquo; car and the gap between them appears to have become the styling concern that is paramount. It shouldn&rsquo. I’m in favor of a car ’s shape and detailing declaring in terms its purpose and function. The Polestar 2’s silhouette does tell you it’s secure and comfortable, that it’s not meant to go fast or attract unwanted attention, which is all to the good. But it doesn’t whatsoever let’s that it & rsquo; s clean and won & rsquo; t gasoline you in city canyons or it manifests a better and different method of individual transportation. And rsquo & that;s too bad.

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