Polestar 1 road tests – Spain

It wasn't easy leaving the Arctic Circle for the Mediterranean, but the Polestar 1 steering software won't test itself.

Close-up of the left front wheel on a Polestar 1 in the colour Black Midnight.

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Therefore, the Polestar engineers and technicians traded pine trees for palm trees, traded their boots for flip-flops, and left Jokkmokk (with its May temperatures of 9 degrees) for Barcelona. We made sure to document the process, which you can see in the gallery.

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