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2025 Polestar 3 Long Range Dual Motor (21 Inch Wheels)Real-world range and efficiency

Standard SUV · All-Wheel Drive · EPA 2.61 mi/kWh · EPA range 315 mi

Across 26 drives and 94 mi by 1 PlugLog driver, the 2025 Polestar 3 Long Range Dual Motor (21 Inch Wheels) averaged 2.68 mi/kWh, 12% below its EPA rating. That works out to about 276 mi of range.

From one driver so far: the numbers will firm up as more 3 Long Range Dual Motor (21 Inch Wheels) drivers share.

Updated · from 26 shared drives

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Real-world efficiency
2.68mi/kWh
EPA 3.07 at the battery (rated 2.61)
Compared with EPA
−12%
Below the EPA rating
Real-world range
276mi
@ 28 mph avg · EPA range 315 mi
Drives
26
94 mi · 1 driver

Reality check

Will a 2025 Polestar 3 work for your life?

Put in where you live and how you drive: its range in your winters, what charging costs there, how clean your grid is, and how far it reaches on real roads.

  • ❄ Winter range
  • ⚡ Home charging cost
  • 🌱 Your grid's CO₂
  • 🗺 Real-road reach

From 26 real 3 drives, and other EVs' where it has too few.

Efficiency by outside temperature

Cold batteries and cabin heat cost range. Here's how much, for these drives.

  • 32–50°F2.13 mi/kWh≈ 219 mi range · 1 drive
  • 50–68°F2.71 mi/kWh≈ 278 mi range · 24 drives
  • 68–86°F3.17 mi/kWh≈ 326 mi range · 1 drive

Longer bars go further on each kWh.

Efficiency by speed

Air resistance climbs quickly with speed. Here's what it costs, by each drive's average speed.

  • Under 20 mph2.10 mi/kWh≈ 216 mi range · 5 drives
  • 20–40 mph2.71 mi/kWh≈ 279 mi range · 21 drives

Longer bars go further on each kWh.

Carbon savings

US grid

CO₂ for these 94 miles, tailpipe vs. the power plants that charged it.

70lb CO₂ avoided

▼ 69% less
  • Average standard SUV · 18 mpg102 lb CO₂5.2 gal burned
  • This EV · US grid32 lb CO₂39 kWh charged

≈ 1 tree

growing for a year

8,972 lb

a year at 12,000 mi

Shorter bars are cleaner. Grid: EPA eGRID US average (0.82 lb/kWh) incl. charging losses; gas: 19.6 lb CO₂/gal.

Fuel savings vs. gas

US avg $4.28/gal · Oct 19

What these 94 miles cost to charge, and what an average standard SUV would have spent.

$15saved charging at home

7.6¢/mi vs 23.8¢
  • Average standard SUV · 18 mpg$2223.8¢/mi
  • Home charging · 18¢/kWh$77.6¢/mi
  • DC fast only · 43¢/kWh$1617.3¢/mi

$1,950 / year

at 12,000 mi, home charging

Break-even

fast charging under 59¢/kWh

Shorter bars cost less. Gas: EIA US weekly average; power: EIA residential average and PlugLog's real DC fast prices.

Only drives from drivers who chose to share their efficiency data, with no names or locations. Efficiency is distance ÷ the energy each battery reported using, net of regen. Real-world range is the usable battery, measured from shared drives (or estimated from the EPA figures), × the real efficiency, at the drives' average speed (weighted by distance, like the efficiency). EPA ratings include charging losses, so vs EPA compares at the battery. How it's measured

Questions

What is the real-world efficiency of the 2025 Polestar 3 Long Range Dual Motor (21 Inch Wheels)?
Across 26 real drives by 1 PlugLog driver (94 miles), the 2025 Polestar 3 Long Range Dual Motor (21 Inch Wheels) averaged 2.68 mi/kWh, 12% below its EPA rating. That's the energy its battery actually used, net of regen, not a lab test.
What is the real-world range of the 2025 Polestar 3 Long Range Dual Motor (21 Inch Wheels)?
About 276 miles on a full charge: its usable battery (about 103 kWh) at the 2.68 mi/kWh it averaged, at an average 28 mph. The EPA rates it at 315 miles.

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How it's measured

Real drives, straight from the battery.

EPA ratings come from a lab cycle. These come from the road: every drive shared by a PlugLog driver, recorded by the car itself.

Measured, not estimated

The PlugLog car app reads your battery's power many times a minute and checks it against the battery level. Efficiency is distance over the energy actually used, net of regen.

Shared on purpose

Drives count only if their driver shares their efficiency and charging data, and then all of them do, so no one picks their best. No names, no routes, no locations: just how the EV did.

Every condition

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