Tesla Model 3 vs Polestar 2 review.

How far will the new entry-level Tesla Model 3 standard-range plus actually go on a full charge, and how far will the more expensive long-range performance go? What's up with Paul Star 2? How far will it actually go on a full charge? Will it go further than the basic Tesla? Will it come close to the performance of the Model 3? We will find out in this video. We will also find out what happens when they run out of charge. Do they bring slowly? You take yourself to a nice, stable hole. Do they suddenly turn off and leave you stranded? Well I will find that I will be driving these cars non-stop on the m25 until they are completely discharged.

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has a full battery and I have 249 miles of range that's what you think it will be able to do with Richard on Model 3 Performance how much range do you say your car has right now 307 miles of estimated range so It has almost 60 miles more than me again in the star 2 survey, what is the range it says it has at the time I stay? 260 miles of range isn't much more than me, just a little over 10 miles, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out between this entry level Tesla and that North Star 2.

Who's betting on the Tesla or the Star polar? My money is almost on the Tesla and poll star 2's gins, what do you think? I have a feeling Tesla is still going to win this. Hopefully you'll see it, so we have some rules of the game that we're going to drive. these cars as if we were driving them normally, that means going the speed limit, we can go as far away as we can to make sure we get somewhere close to a charge before we turn off, if you want the heater on, you have the Heater on if you're in the heated seat, you have it on, use it like your own car.

There's no point in driving a car that costs over £40,000 and not having the heated seat on if your bottom is cold. Otherwise I pay all that money, let me tell you a little bit about this Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus, so it starts from just over £40,000. They have a single electric motor that drives the rear wheels and generates 271 horsepower, 405 Newton meters. of torque, which I think is not much compared to the performance that has more than 400 horsepower, but it is still very fast look, I'm going 50 miles per hour, I'm going to accelerate, look at this, it's 70 l, It's fast, it still gets the electric car to accelerate instantly even from 50.

Although it's fun, that eats up your charge so I won't do it too often just to give you some context of where we are on the M25. This is the way out. The brand's Hatch racing circuit is for gasoline fans, not EV fans. We'll probably see it again in about an hour and a half, two hours, we'll reach another waypoint and this is the dart to cross. There is the bridge. four clockwise, we're going counterclockwise on the m25, so we're going to take the tunnel. Now remember to pay the toll because in the past you used to stop at a barrier, but that caused traffic jams, so what?

What you do now is you just read the license plate, the problem with that is that you're going to use it and if you pay later because you know you have a busy life and stuff, then you get fined by mail. Oh, my headlights have arrived. Automatically speaking, the Tesla Model 3's headlights have been updated, they are now matrix LEDs, although interestingly they don't fully operate in the usual matrix form of hiding that part of their beam because Tesla is still working on the software to do so. that and once they've figured it out they'll remotely upgrade it to have matrix LEDs they can't do things with matrix LEDs for now anyway we're coming out of the tunnel right now we're doing a quick emergency stop to exit the highway. very quickly now this would be an opportunity where I would probably charge the car a bit while I'm away, in fact I wouldn't because I'm absolutely bursting at the seams and I won't be able to hold it up while I'm trying to plug in the car and all that kind of nonsense.

What is it about? Because I accelerated to get over the junction of the box that was going to hit the back of the pole tent. The car has a nice rear end. very nice, looks much better than the

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one, it really does it, it's a nice design, the tesla one has something a bit guppy-like about it, you know what I mean, it's not a North Star, it's slightly raised too and it is quite tall. it still looks like a normal hatch but it's taller, oh god I'm so relieved now it was horrible, it was the auto brake installation, the car noticed it wasn't moving and I wasn't paying enough attention and it also broke the car, so Otherwise, I would have crashed into it and disturbed the truckers behind me, in fact, there is a large chain of truckers behind me.

Oops, don't bother them. Accident avoided. I love the safety systems on this thing, really really good, although I could die. getting hit by truckers ok, back in the m25 feeling more relaxed this tesla has 73 of its battery left what that means in terms of remaining range, I have to press this button here, go to the screen, swipe up to change that from power display to power in distance and now it says I have 185 miles left, that's a little complicated to be able to switch between the two. I have ridden 54 miles and am averaging 225 watt hours per mile, or 0.2 kilowatt hours per mile.

Let's see how others are doing, the performance of the Tesla Model 3, what is the percentage of battery remaining? The battery has 81 left and that has given me a range of 250 miles and what is its power usage so far. Usage is 264 hours per mile, a little more than Me, but not that much, so polstar, how are you? I have 68 batteries left and that has a range of 117 miles, oh dear, it already looks like you can abandon it first, so what's your power consumption right now? 36.1 kilowatt hours per 100 miles. I mean, we've basically been driving in convoy, the energy usage is much higher than these Teslas, that's quite a bit, almost 100 hours per mile, now one thing I should point out is that as part of the upgrades.

For these latest generation Tesla Model 3s, they are equipped with a heat pump, so instead of simply using a heating element that only uses a lot of power from the battery to keep the cabin warm, it actually draws thermal energy from different parts of the car that produce heat and then uses that to help improve the heat in the car, it just does it more efficiently, it's little things like that where Tesla just thought of ways to better manage battery usage. I'm going to leave the highway here because I really want to test drive this Tesla. in the city, look what it's like, how comfortable it is, there's bumps, all that kind of stuff.

I have this tesla set up so that it actually turns into a complete hole when you lift off the accelerator, you will slow down with regenerative braking, so it'll take back the lost power, put it back into the battery and allow you to come to a complete stop. The regenerative braking on this

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three is not adjustable when I pick it up, it's pretty strong, but in certain circumstances I might want it to be a little stronger on a mod socket, you can change it, they don't let you be here, they want to get more money out of it. ti to enable those features for city driving, although it's good to be fair, this car is reasonably light for an electric car of this size, weighing about 1,650 kilos.

I also like the visibility you have in the Tesla. It doesn't look as tall as an SUV, but the view from the head-up display is really good because you have a very low dash which makes it easier to see what's going on. Now I have a little ride in the Polestar 2. Look at what the city is like compared to that Tesla, look at some bumps here and you know what, I immediately realize that it's not as comfortable on the bounce as the Tesla, the reason is because It is equipped with a more rigid support. The suspension has to be because this car is heavy, it weighs over 2100 kilos, so they need a stiffer suspension to prevent it from leaning when cornering.

I'm going to go into one-pedal driving mode and coast, that's what regenerators like when I lift. off it just slows you down a bit faster than the tesla's regenerative braking which makes it even easier to drive in one pedal mode and of course you can alter it between standard and low so now it slows down a little more constantly in standard, oh yes. I can really feel the difference it makes it easier to drive. The view you get when you're sitting in the Tesla is just better because that big wraparound windshield makes you feel warmer. It feels more like a normal car.

Personally, the interior design. I prefer this Polestar 2 to the Tesla Model 3. The Tesla is very minimalist, which is nice, but this is more interesting. The quality here is better than the Tesla. I like the fact that you have normal instruments in front of you, yes, of course. It's a digital screen, but it's right in front of you, where it should make someone nervous to have to look all the time to see how fast I'm doing it and all that kind of stuff, you can just look down quickly from the road. I think overall I prefer the infotainment system slightly as it's less distracting when it's dark, it's a bit easier to use, it's like you can alter the direction that way, you don't have to waste time in menus, it's a lot better back. on the n25 again let's do a range check because omg things are not as rosy on this lodestar as they were on the tesla so i have 55 battery left, 130 miles of range and i have been doing 0.36 kilowatts per mile, let's check with the other guys, regular rear wheel drive tesla, what are you doing? how much battery you have, what your range is and how much power usage, so right now I have 155 miles of range left and it's reading 233. watt hours per mile let's see what the performance

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I feel very intelligent. I still have 223 miles of range and am averaging 264 watt hours per mile. What percentage of battery do you have left? Will

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your menus. Now wait, it has a 72 battery, how about in the normal car I have 61 left in battery? Let me tell you a little bit about this R2 pulsed, so it starts at just under £50,000, which means it qualifies for the government grant, so that's forty-seven thousand pounds on the road, which is still seven a thousand pounds more than the entry-level Tesla Model Three; However, you get two motors instead of one, so it's all-wheel drive and you get a lot more power: 408 horsepower and 660 Newton meters. of torque, but it's obviously crippled by the extra weight, so the difference in performance between the two isn't that much.

I'm doing 50. I'm going to speed up now there's more push on the back of your seat, but it's not like that. There's about as big a difference as you can imagine, so it's a 78 kilowatt hour battery, although the usable capacity is actually 75 kilowatts. We were charging these cars before we went and turned to some ion chargers. This car was supposed to be able to charge 150 kilowatts. The ion charger we were using was supposed to charge it up to 350 kilowatts, but no, we didn't know that the maximum it would charge at was 35 kilowatts. I think it must have had something to do with the car or the charger itself.

It was when it had a 60 battery so it should have been able to charge at a higher rate and when it got close to 100 feet, at which point it slowed down to about four kilowatts, the Tesla we were charging in the range version normal. It was actually more drained in terms of battery, but then it passed and seemed to charge at a higher rate for longer than this North Star battery management Tesla. We're getting to common services, so that's one full lap of the m25. I'm going to get off here because I need another bathroom break.

We have traveled 129 miles. This thing is running at 0.36 kilowatts per mile. Oh, I just restarted the computer and it hasn't since the last upload. Great, that's just an r. slide, it was 129 miles, remember we have to figure this out anyway, let's see how the other cars do. I have 29 battery left after a ride on the m25, which says it has a range of 65 miles, how are you doing on it? entry level tesla model 3 car so i have 92 miles left on batteries reading 224 watt hours ok much better how about the performance of the model 3? So after one lap of the m25 I have 163 miles left, which is 53 and I have averaged 271 hours in which Tesla is destroying its addition to the highway again in the performance of theTesla Model 3 and this will give me the opportunity to really illustrate its performance.

I'll go up to 50 miles per hour and then accelerate up to 70. Look how fast this flat is, it's great for merging onto the freeway and passing things noticeably more pushed than that North Star 2. Like the Pulse R2, you have two motors, one front and one on the rear axle, so it is all-wheel drive but combined. They produce 462 horsepower. Interestingly, you have, say, 639 Newton meters, but it feels more responsive because this car is lighter, weighing just over 1800 kilos, which is obviously heavier than the basic Tesla Model 3, but quite a bit lighter than the Polstar. 2 still and that affects its range capacity.

This car has 130 40 miles left on it. Increases 43 percent of the battery. Flip that part back and it says I've driven 147.7 miles and use 42 kilowatts. We're averaging 286 watts. Alright, it's running well, let's see how the other cars do. What is the standard range of the Tesla Model 3? Also, it has 60 miles left on the battery, which is 24 and I'm running on 234 watt hours. How about North Star, I bet? You're not doing so well. 30 miles of range left. 15 battery and that's an average of 39.3. You might leave first. I certainly agree with you on that so far. I'm quite impressed with the performance of this model 3, but. you have to pay 56,500 pounds for it, obviously that number doesn't include the government subsidy because you can't get in the car because it costs over 50 thousand dollars, so again, being a tesla, the actual size of the battery is not listed, but the general consensus is that it is an 82 kilowatt hour battery.

What was smart was to reduce the power due to the low battery charge. I don't want to be presumptuous, but I have over 100 miles of range left. How much do you have in it? standard range plus the last 33 miles of range and my power has also dropped pretty quickly, but I'm getting a little nervous so I think I'll leave you in a second. What scope do they have left? I have nine miles left but it's restricting energy. Empty battery. Plug in the car now. So here is your output. Then, polstar 2. Thanks for joining us. It has been a pleasure.

He has always enjoyed the rest of the evening. That is in God between the two Tesla models. 3 more standard scope how are you doing with the scope? I have 11 miles left, which is four percent of the battery and I'm still running around 222 watt hours. What is your plan? My departure is literally in two miles and I'm leaving and I'm trying to convert it to a supercharger, we'll see how far the supercharger is, so the supercharger is 17 miles away, that's pretty difficult, it's 17 miles away and you have 11 miles of range left, yes that's right, well this is your crossing.

I'm going to let you go. I continue on the m25. There it goes. I hope you get it. Are you brave or are you stupid? Oh, I have a phone call. It is also the north star. Hi Richard, what happened? We traveled 12 miles. beyond its zero range, locked your wheels or allowed you to put it in neutral on the car, so in the end how far did the pulse r2 go before failing at a total of 197.1 miles, so only 68 of it What is it supposed to do? and what was your power consumption 380 how are you doing buddy okay I just died you mean the car just died how many miles did you travel 218.6 miles 70 of the range and the other question is how many kilowatts did you use 49 kilowatts here we Then They come to the common services once again so that's two full laps of the m25 so I have 50 miles of range left.

I think it's about 16 or 17 miles to that supercharger. There has been a development. I have no miles of range left. I'm about to get off the highway to go to this charger, so the supercharger is right here apparently on the left at the Hilton hotel. No, what am I doing here? There is a barrier there. Please use another machine. Okay, I don't understand this delivery. free, okay, I'm going to leave it, can I have it for free? I'm not actually carrying it, right? Will it take me straight to the supercharger? Let's take a look at this.

It's like Tesla heaven. There are many superchargers. oh I'm fine, I have the ability to keep going so I'll continue, so we hit zero miles at 274, now we're at 278.8 miles and I'm still tired of going around and around and around. I'll have to turn around and go the other way to see if all that helped me. I just felt another drop in power. I have my foot on the floor and it's doing 20. We should be close now. It's really cool how it steadily decreases. The motor vehicle shuts down, let's see if we can get to the charger, oh, come on, come on, this is it, it's practically dead, I'm going to get to a supercharger, oh, it's starting to close, it's shuddering, it's shuddering, oh, and that's it, it's literally.

I just stopped and I need to back up, let me back up, no, I wanted to back up so I can push it, I need to put it in tow mode, right, that's the break, I think oh, come on, come on, yeah, okay. We park we have done it so that the car went 286.1 miles on a full charge, it averaged 270 watts per mile, which is equivalent to 0.27 kilowatts per mile and the capacity of the battery used was 77 kilowatt hours, so that is the available battery capacity in a Tesla Model 3 performance. So, 81 of the claimed range, so not only was this the furthest, but it was also the closest to its claimed range as well in terms of percentage.

So what's my final verdict on this in terms of scope? This car won in terms of looks. I prefer the Polestar 2. both outside and inside, but Teslas are actually better to drive and offer better range, which offers the best value. I would say probably the entry level tesla model 3. It goes far enough and is quite a bit cheaper than this performance overall, the winner for me is the entry level tesla 3 standard range model, plus that would be the one I would buy, then this performance model and lastly the polstar 2. now I'm going to charge it and I'm on a supercharger so it will be fast, well that's the car charging and it does it at a speed of 145 kilowatts which is pretty decent and after all these are the older version of Tesla superchargers, there are newer versions that can charge even faster, but Here's the thing for me with Tesla: the infrastructure is better and that could be a deal breaker.

Now it will take 40 minutes until the battery is full, but I'm not going to spend that long waiting until it's full to 80 and then just. Go home because it's getting late after all. I hope everyone enjoyed the video. If they did, give it a like. If you click on those windows, you can see my other EV range test and if you click on that box, you can go to. car wow to see the latest content on electric vehicles