If it works as it should, the car will automatically start warming the battery pack as you navigate to the DC charger. Even with this it's not a magic bullet that will suddenly heat the battery to optimum temperature, but it helps.

The other way to really give the battery a good warming is in the last couple of miles floor the car as if you were an F1 driver, and then immediately come off the loud pedal for max regen. Repeat this until you reach the charger. You and any passengers will feel as sick as dogs abd I don't suppose it's very good for the rest of the car but it's an option

 

This did work on the autobahn when driving to Austria, charging times were actually decent and even reached >200kw for a while on one charger according to a charging graph.
Sidenote, apparently it is possible to reach 220 with the single motor.

 

I haven't noticed anything, but weather in Spain is pretty mild right now. It would be great to have some kind of indicator that the preconditioning is happening.

It's probably one of the things I miss most about the car, more information about what's happening.

 

My current car gets a little red coil so at least you know something is supposed to be happening.

 

Mine started about 40 mins before I arrived at the DC charger.

 

Can confirm it starts 40 minutes before arrival. We got about 135kw from an IONITY which isn't bad to be fair, that was a quick charge from 45% to 80%. Our old car was lucky to get 60kw.

 

On a related note, hello fellow owner!

Spotted in Scotland

 

I'm seeing quite a few Polestar 4's and 3's on the roads around north west London and central London too!

 

I’ve not seen one where I live!

 

I’ve seen a few 4s. No 3s yet!

 

Seen two 4s, no 3s. Now I’ve had mine delivered I can wave and not be looked at like some random weirdo.

 

I've had mine since November 1st - still not seen one.

Based in Notts and regularly do the M1 to Northampton too..........

 

Seen only one 4 and parked next to a 3 at Burghley park couple of weeks ago, that’s all since mine arrived in October

 

Pretty exclusive in Lancashire it would appear, do the M6 & M61 regularly and not seen another yet

 

If it does, there is no indication on the display.

 

There's a notification once you're 40 minutes away saying it's started.

 

Needed to charge using DC over the weekend for the first time, 40 mins out got the alert, and then was surprised how much extra battery was used in those 40 mins - my arrival SOC dropped by around 7% on both occassions, despite the driving conditions and speed hardly varying.

Top speed I got was still only 143kW on a 350kW Gridserve charger at a starting SOC of 23%.

Charged 3 times and very similar results, although on a 180kW Applegreen it only started at 90kW, but when the other car sharing the charger moved away it went up to 135kW.

 

I got to try the preconditioning yesterday. I got the warning around 30 minutes before arriving at the charger (in this case a Tesla V4) but no indication of it happening after that (a simple icon in the dashboard would help). I arrived with 11% and got to 60 something in 22 minutes. With 200kWh peak and mostly around 150kWh. In total 53kWh in 22 minutes.

It's true that the consumption for preconditioning got my battery lower than expected (around 5-6%), but I also notice an almost 10% discrepancy between the estimated and real before getting home, not related to the preconditioning but weird anyhow because until now it's always been on the range of 1-2% difference.