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2025 Polestar 2 drops the best-driving, highest-range variations


The 2025 Polestar 2 lineup shrinks to only one configuration, dropping the less-expensive, higher-range fashions.

First noticed by Automobile and Driver, the 2025 Polestar 2 will solely be out there in Efficiency Pack spec. Which means the bottom single-motor model, in addition to the non-Efficiency dual-motor model, are historical past.

2025 Polestar 2

2025 Polestar 2

The only-motor model, which switched from front-wheel drive to rear-wheel drive as a part of a refresh of the Polestar 2 for 2024, was the longest-range configuration, with an EPA-rated 320 miles of vary from an 82-kwh battery pack. All-wheel drive fashions have a 78-kwh pack, and 2024 fashions achieved a most 276 miles in non-Efficiency guise. Efficiency Pack fashions had been rated at 247 miles for 2024, so the Polestar 2 is more likely to see a considerable efficient drop in vary for 2025.

The Efficiency Pack does embody manually-adjustable Öhlins monotube dampers, upgraded brakes, and Continental SportContact 6 efficiency tires, however in a sampling of the 2024 Polestar 2 lineup, we discovered it did not really feel as balanced or comfortable with itself because the rear-wheel drive model. For 2025, output does rise again to 469 hp, which Efficiency Pack fashions made previous to 2024, whereas holding the upper 546 lb-ft of torque determine from that mannequin 12 months.

2025 Polestar 2

2025 Polestar 2

Along with the Efficiency Pack, and the Pilot Pack of driver-assist options that was normal on all-wheel drive fashions for 2024, the 2025 Polestar 2 comes normal with the Local weather and Plus Packs. However this configuration prices $66,200, a giant step up from the $51,300 base value of the single-motor 2024 mannequin.

Inexperienced Automobile Stories has reached out to Polestar for remark and was instructed the automaker’s dedicated to being a three-car firm with the addition of the Polestar 3 and Polestar 4.

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