What do we need to know about the Polaris commandment?

Now it seems that Polar Star chose to announce its new car Precept one week before the Geneva Motor Show (cancelled), which is undoubtedly wise and lucky.

Judging from the known information, the Polaris amulet is a brand-new product, which guides the future product design direction, but the distinctive Nordic style still needs to be fully presented on the amulet.

For a long time, the core of Nordic style lies in: minimalist design without losing functionality and affinity. These functions are in Polestar? 1 and Polestar? No.2 has been shown. With the addition of some advanced sensory elements, Polar Star has moved from a high-performance department of Volvo to a high-end but slightly niche brand image of electric vehicles.

Obviously, Polaris brand needs a fresher product, such as talisman, if it wants to further realize its "difference from Volvo". Although it has not yet reached the full mass production form, the product keynote set by Precept is: a four-door GT sedan with a wheelbase of 3. 1 m, adopting a brand-new minimalist design language and practicing a deep-seated environmental protection concept.

In modern people's minds, "simplicity" and "advanced" have an inseparable cognitive relationship, which was originally the advantage of Polaris, but minimalist aesthetics is essentially an aesthetics of how to do subtraction, especially in the case that Polaris has launched two products, how to excel will test its design level.

Fortunately, the Polaris rule is well done. First of all, the familiar Volvo design elements can hardly be found in its whole body. One of the few related elements, Raytheon hammer LED headlights, has been regarded as a design that separates up and down. Body lines and penetrating taillights are also simplified as much as possible.

Moreover, the design of the talisman tail window is very clever, and the glass roof extends directly to the back row, which has a transparent aesthetic feeling and also brings a larger opening angle to the trunk.

An innovative and visually striking appearance is only the first step. The application of Polaris Proverb interior materials and the treatment of surface texture are the core of expressing product value and brand vision-environmentalism.

According to the official statement, Polar Star Precept interior panel is made of natural flax fiber composite material from Bcomp Company, which can reduce the weight by 50% and the plastic consumption by 80% compared with the traditional interior.

Flax fiber is different from many biomaterials because it is not only an ideal choice for crop rotation, but also a food crop. In the product line displayed by Bcomp official website, ampliTex? 、bCores？ And strong ribs? Three series. In fact, as early as 20 18, Bcomp had cooperated with Volvo. At that time, powerRibs natural fiber reinforcement technology was combined with marine plastics to produce composite materials for interior parts.

At that time, when using a new composite interior for Volvo XC60, Bcomp claimed that it could reduce the use of plastics in cars by 25%, mainly to provide a high-performance and lightweight solution. Through words and deeds, the degree of "plasticity reduction" reached 80%, indicating that with the passage of time, the technology of natural flax fiber composites became more and more mature.

Not only that, the seat surface of Polaris amulet car adopts 3D flying line technology. As a popular technical means in high-end sports shoes and fashion, 3D seamless flying thread weaving technology can be woven into seat fabric at one time, with no seam in the middle. It can be customized according to the size in the production process, without waste of leftover materials, and has the characteristics of light weight and durability.

This also explains why Polar Star Precept's chair has a slim visual effect, but at the same time it can give people a supportive and comfortable atmosphere.

The fibers used in polar star Precept seats come from recyclable PET plastic bottles, and the lining and headrest are made of cork produced during the manufacturing process of red wine corks. In addition, Precept also extracts nylon fibers from discarded fishing nets and weaves them into car carpets.

These keywords all sound very environmentally friendly, but the recycling and reprocessing of PET materials and ensuring the standardization and reliability of quality all mean that special resources and a lot of costs need to be invested.

To sum up, why does Polaris dare to claim to be more advanced "new luxury" than emphasizing leather, chrome plating, logs and other elements? First, the cost of acquiring and using these new materials is not low at all. At the same time, as a pure electric vehicle, this design concept of environmental protection everywhere is more likely to win the emotional identity of emerging wealthy people.

Finally, unlike electric vehicles that generally emphasize the sense of science and technology or even science fiction, the Polaris discipline seems a bit stiff in this respect.

One of the few bright spots

Polar Star Precept replaced the traditional grille with a part called "SmartZone" on the front face. SmartZone is designed as a beautiful transparent intelligent panel, which integrates two radar sensors and a high-definition camera, and realizes the upgrade and landing of active safety technology and automatic driving assistance technology.

Laser radar is integrated above the glass roof to support the automatic driving assistance system.

The interior of the vehicle adopts native Android system, and a large number of intelligent sensors are integrated on the central control panel to realize personal exclusive functions and intelligent interactive applications, and it is equipped with eye tracking technology.

At present, Polaris officials do not disclose the power parameters or cruising range of the amulet, but focus on the "minimalist design" and "environmentalism" of new cars, which may give us a signal and thinking. Technology is only a tool to solve problems, and sometimes technology itself is part of the problem.

When Tesla gained a firm foothold and traditional luxury brands invested heavily in electric vehicles, the Nordic atmosphere and electric environmental protection had a natural fit. What Polaris Discipline should do is to set a high threshold for itself and avoid low-quality competition.

Author | Yuan Mengquan

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Editor | Atractylodes macrocephala

Comments | Lan Qingqing

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