Additional particulars concerning the idea automotive are scant. As you’ll be able to see from the images, the angular design continues the corporate’s general aesthetic. The low and huge physique with minimal overhangs and an extended wheelbase mirrors traditional sports activities automotive proportions, however Polestar hopes it’s going to go face to face with the frequently delayed Tesla Roadster, first unveiled means again in 2017.
Whereas the 4.65-meter-long automotive will supposedly use the identical battery as the approaching Polestar 5, aerodynamics are used to maximise the O2‘s unspecified vary with “disguised” design options, together with built-in ducts to enhance air circulate over the wheels and physique sides, and taillights that perform as air blades to cut back turbulence behind the automotive.
This being a Polestar, even when solely an idea, sustainability was inevitably going to characteristic. Right here, a thermoplastic mono-material—created from a single materials with none blended fibers and so simpler to recycle—is employed in a lot of the inside. It has been used as the only materials for all of the comfortable elements: foam, adhesive, 3D-knit fibers, and non-woven lamination. Moreover, the totally different grades of aluminum used within the building can be labeled, to allow them to be recycled extra simply and effectively.
Now let’s flip to the far much less credible drone. Polestar’s engineers have developed a specialised airfoil that rises behind the rear seats to create a “calm space” of detrimental stress that might permit the drone to take off when the automotive is on the transfer.
As soon as in flight, the drone would then function autonomously, following the automotive at speeds as much as 56 mph. Utilizing the primary cabin touchscreen, the driving force can select between an “atmospheric” sequence (“nice for a shoreline cruise”) or an “motion” sequence with “a sportier expression,” no matter which means.
After filming, the drone would then return to the automotive, the place video clips may be edited and shared instantly from the 15-inch middle show as soon as the automotive is parked. The entire thing sounds just like the automotive equal of a mirrored ceiling.
China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group owns Polestar, together with different automotive manufacturers reminiscent of Lotus and Volvo, and lots of different firms in different sectors. One among these is the drone maker Aerofugia, shaped in 2017 out of a merger between Geely and US-based Terrafugia, developer of these hideous flying automobiles. Aerofugia’s shopper model, Hoco Circulate, a model for which I can discover no on-line data, has apparently labored with Polestar on the design of this cell launching drone, meant to “report the proper driving sequence.”
I requested if Polestar additionally has a prototype of the drone to go along with its bodily model of the O2, and what its confirmed capabilities have been, reminiscent of flight time and collision avoidance system. I used to be advised that the corporate had “not gone that far at this stage when it comes to performance, and there aren’t any prototypes.”