As wonderful as it would be, Polestar’s cars aren’t simply dreamt up, built, and ushered into showrooms ready to be driven away. Designers need to decide what they’ll look like, engineers need to work out how to make them do all the things you expect of them, and then specialists need to figure out how to match up the design and engineering. And that’s all before work can even begin on manufacturing. Every step of a car’s journey, from idea to tangibility, takes time, knowledge, and a lot of late nights and early mornings.