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DAILY: Lucid Shows Cosmos Details, Rivian R2 Timeline and Polestar 3 Adds 800v Tech | 14 Mar 2026

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He opens with a couple of other EV-news items before shifting into Polestar 3. The Polestar section becomes the main focus because the car is being updated market by market while it is still landing with buyers. He says he got the news in an email and notes that UK and Australia test drives are now being offered. Those are right-hand-drive markets, so the rollout is clearly aimed at specific regions rather than a single global wave. He treats the move to an 800-volt electrical architecture as the headline change. That puts Polestar 3 alongside the Volvo EX90 and Volvo ES90 in the Geely family approach to premium EV hardware. The charging claim is straightforward: 10 to 80 percent in 22 minutes on a 350-kW charger. He also walks through the pack sizes, with a 92-kilowatt-hour battery for the rear-motor version and a larger output for the all-wheel-drive version. The rear motor is redesigned as a permanent-magnet unit. In the dual-motor versions, the front motor can disconnect for better efficiency. He keeps coming back to the question of how early buyers feel when a premium car gets a meaningful upgrade almost immediately after launch. To make that point, he brings up Volvo's LiDAR story. The original plan was for LiDAR to be enabled by an over-the-air update. That path changed, and he says newer cars no longer have LiDAR at all. The point is not just the sensor itself. It is the way premium EV road maps keep moving under buyers' feet. He describes the Volvo, Polestar, and Geely relationship as ambitious but not always smooth. Even so, he gives credit where it is due because the direction is clearly better charging and better efficiency. The episode stays focused on what these changes mean in practice rather than on brochure language. It ends up as a tight snapshot of a market where timing, hardware, and delivery expectations can all shift at once.

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A clear look at premium EV changes that matter to buyers.

This episode keeps its focus on Polestar 3's shift to an 800-volt electrical architecture, and the framing works because it stays on what a buyer actually feels rather than getting lost in spec talk.

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