2025 Polestar 3 Long-Term Test, Part 1: The Guinea Pig and His Mount
Over the next few weeks, we'll be getting to know the 2025 Polestar 3 a little better. This is the first chapter of our long-term test of the EV.
The car I'm about to tell you about was one of the very few Polestar 3s on the road. From October through to the holiday season, I didn't come across another one. If I had, it would have been driven by one of two members of the company's Canadian executive team: Hugues Bissonnette, Polestar's Director for Canada, and Jérôme Toussaint, the Quebec-based Regional Operations Manager.
Orders for the Polestar 3 began to come in several months ago, but deliveries have only just begun. Why the delay? Multiple updates to the car's software.
Men of many hats…
Executives Hugues and Jérôme were tasked with driving the 3 to test the software and report back to the engineers, who immediately set about improving it. And in fact, I had the same task.
Said Hughes, upon handing me the fob, “You won't mind driving a car that’s likely to frustrate you?”
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