Polestar 2 Digital Key Update adds new cellphone features to EV
Polestars push new digital key systems for Smartphone Polestar 2, tapping smartphone drivers for authentication, while OTA updates also bring further upgrades to EV. In addition, new car software will allow polestar 2 drivers to estimate the vehicle cabin remotely, using a smartphone application.
Polestar has an application for EV from GOT-GO, free downloads for iOS and Android devices. What added, however, is the ability to use the application as the key to electric fastback, rather than ordinary key fob.
For owners, it must be quite easy: like, in fact, experience with the existing key. Walk to Polestar 2 and it will open the key as you approach the door; Step into the trunk, meanwhile, and it will open. However, if you approach the charging door, it will be not locked.
As you guess, then there is a fair amount occurring in the background. In the application, the digital version of the key is encrypted, and then using an encrypted Bluetooth connection with EV.
Polestar has installed 18 Bluetooth sensors, and surrounding areas, Polestar 2 while. When you are in the length of the arm, therefore, they can carry out triangulation where exactly you in relation to the door, stem, or filling door, and open whatever is appropriate based on it. No need to use the phone to the door, or hold it back.
To actually start Polestar 2, meanwhile, the phone used as a digital key must be in the cabin. Polestars use a pressure sensor built into the driver’s seat to turn on the eV, which means everything is needed to put the car into a drive.
This is not the only new function that can be found in the Polestar application. It is now possible to check the status of EV battery, long distance controls the HVAC cabin to cool or heat it from afar, and to lock it. Other features, said Polestar, will be added in time.
Inside the Infotainment OS-Powered Automotive 2 infotainment system, meanwhile, there is a new way that distance-to-empty (DTE) for the battery is displayed, plus there are new pre-heating warming measures that the car maker said. The cost of wireless telephone costs has also been tweaked, Polestar said, “for newer cellphones with additional magnetic elements.” There is no special device checked by name, although it sounds very similar to the reference to the Apple Magsafe system in the iPhone 12 series.
The rest of the new firmware will be a mixture of bug fixes and increased stability. Polestar said that OTA renewal will start rolling into Polestar 2 cars starting today, although because it is pushed out in batch you may not see it in your EV immediately. You will also need the latest version of the Polestar application installed on your mobile, what the car maker must be pushed automatically.