The most high-performance Polestar to date, the dual-motor Polestar 4 runs a 102-kWh battery for a claimed range of 350 miles. Yet all eyes are understandably on an innovative design that says goodbye to the traditional rear window. 📷: Polestar
Ingenlath and Missoni are one of the car industry’s most formidable design double acts, having proven themselves at Volkswagen and Volvo. Some car bosses are tone-deaf when it comes to design, and Missoni admits that Ingenlath’s intimate knowledge of the territory is helpful. But he insists that the Polestar 4 is as much the product of pragmatic thinking as it is conceptual design theorizing.
“There are some old-school solutions that we’ve learned to live with,” he says. “But as a designer and engineer, it’s obviously good to say, ‘Do we have the technologies now that could compete with this?’ Usually the answer is, ‘Yes, but they’re not quite as good, so let’s forget about it.’ But if you use digital technology, like a camera and the accompanying software, there are more features you can add. The extrapolation of these things gives you so much potential.
Although the deletion of the back window risks a certain claustrophobia, the 4’s rear compartment seemingly manages to envelope occupants without plunging them into existential gloom. Several things help here. Firstly, a full-length glass roof is standard, with the option of an electrochromic function to switch between opaque or transparent.
Missoni and his team have also doubled down on the cocoon effect by angling the exterior belt-line up on the rear doors. This is a very striking car, with some hard—"robotic," says Missoni—surface treatments blending with softer forms. Importantly, the Polestars
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