#polestar — Public Fediverse posts

Polestar: US-Fiasko treibt Elektroauto-Marke in den Absturz
https://www.schmidtisblog.de/polestar-us-krise-aktienabsturz-1815268/

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Polestar 3 Beats Mercedes-Benz S-Class to Win South Korean Auto Journalists’ ‘Car of the Month’ for September — BigGo Finance

Polestar’s large electric SUV, the Polestar 3, has been named September’s Car of the Month by the Korea…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Mercedes-Benz #HyundaiMotor'sAll-NewAvante #KoreaAutomobileJournalistsAssociation(KAJA) #KoreaCaroftheYear(K-COTY) #Mercedes-BenzS-Class #Polestar #polestar3 #VolvoEX90 #WonSun-woong
https://www.europesays.com/germany/84595/

Polestar 3 Beats Mercedes-Benz S-Class to Win South Korean Auto Journalists’ ‘Car of the Month’ for September — BigGo Finance

Polestar’s large electric SUV, the Polestar 3, has been named September’s Car of the Month by the Korea…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #HyundaiMotor #Hyundai #HyundaiMotor'sAll-NewAvante #KoreaAutomobileJournalistsAssociation(KAJA) #KoreaCaroftheYear(K-COTY) #Mercedes-BenzS-Class #polestar #Polestar3 #VolvoEX90 #WonSun-woong
https://www.europesays.com/korea/142647/

Weekly output: Consumer Cellular’s SpeakEasy brand, Uber’s take rate, Google Play Store fees, Pixel 9 Pro screen replacement, Qualcomm’s data-center ambitions, Meta scrapping “Off-Meta Activity” privacy setting, Feds poleaxe Polestar

It’s been a while–years, I think–since I had four stories published on one day by one client. But I only wrote two of Friday’s total on Friday, so don’t draw too many conclusions about my potential productivity.

Patreon readers got an extra post this week in which I unpacked an unfortunately botched bit of business development.

6/22/2026: Consumer Cellular Adds SpeakEasy Mobile Sub-Brand For the 75-and-Up Set, PCMag

The interesting part of this announcement was the two simplified phones that Consumer Cellular’s new brand is bringing to the market.

6/23/2026: Uber driver pay is falling as the company’s take rate rises, new research finds, Fast Company

I didn’t have this report about Uber driver pay on my to-do list as I made my way to Web Summit Rio three weeks ago. But once I got there, a notice about a press conference featuring study author Len Sherman of Columbia University’s business school got my attention, and I’m glad that it did.

6/25/2026: Google Details Reduced Play Store Fees That Trim Its Take to 10% in Many Cases, PCMag

Almost six years after Epic Games’ lawsuit challenged Google’s Android app-store rules, the tech giant finally broke down the changes forced by that litigation. I needed much less time to get this post written and filed Thursday morning; it feels good when that happens.

6/26/2026: I Needed to Replace My Pixel 9 Pro’s Screen. It Was Easy, With One Big Caveat, PCMag

I waited a couple of weeks after this successful screen repair to make sure that my phone wouldn’t fall apart in my pocket–and then worried after publication that I would then choose that moment to drop it onto a sidewalk.

6/26/2026: Qualcomm Darts Into the Data Center Business With Dragonfly, PCMag

I had assumed that somebody on staff would cover Qualcomm’s investor day Wednesday in New York but watched it remotely anyway, and then one of my editors asked if I could do a writeup of that event. Of course I said yes.

6/26/2026: Meta to Scrap ‘Off-Facebook Activity’ Feature That Curbed Web Tracking, PCMag

I could have written this post weeks ago, but getting an e-mail from Meta Thursday morning to the account I use for Facebook that reminded me of this impending privacy downgrade was the nudge I needed. Electronic Frontier Foundation staff technologist Lena Cohen’s comments were then the excuse I needed to remind readers of how this privacy problem is made worse by continued Congressional inaction on privacy.

6/26/2026: Feds Poleaxe Polestar, Banning Future US Sales of Its EVs, PCMag

I wasn’t originally going to jump on this, but once that headline popped into my head I had to write the post. Then I made sure to include three essential bits of context: how the connected-car rule that Polestar ran afoul of dates to the closing days of the Biden administration, how few cars Polestar has sold, and what a mess connected-car privacy remains even if you look only at American manufacturers–thanks in large part to continued Congressional inaction on privacy.

Weekly output: Google’s live lane guidance, Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoils

LISBON–I traveled here to speak at my ninth Web Summit conference in Europe via another EU city that I’m quite fond of, Barcelona. The Mozilla Foundation had the good taste to host its Mozilla Festival there and then provide me with a travel stipend to cover the event, so of course I was willing to start my Web Summit trip a few days early. Even though that left me little time at home between working a 15-hour day Tuesday as an election officer and then heading to Dulles Airport Wednesday afternoon.

11/4/2025: Safe to Go? Google Maps Adds ‘Live Lane Guidance’ for Polestar 4 EVs, PCMag

PCMag had two stories under my byline this week, and this was the one I actually wrote this week to cover an update to the built-in Google navigation in one of Polestar’s battery-electric vehicles. The other involved my editor updating a post I wrote in May about President Trump withdrawing his nomination of private astronaut and payments billionaire Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator, the new plot twist being that Trump had changed his mind again and had re-nominated Isaacman. I realize how confusing that last sentence can look. 

11/7/2025: This battery-electric hydrofoil could supercharge a ferry transformation, Fast Company

Two years after getting an introduction to the Swedish startup Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoil sport boats on the San Francisco Bay, I enjoyed an update of the experience on waters I know much better–the Potomac and the Anacostia. With a longer word count than I had for that PCMag report in the summer of 2023, I went into much more detail about Candela’s ambitions to get into the passenger-ferry business, its likely competition in that market, and potential obstacles to electrifying ferries.

#Anacostia #batteryElectricVehicle #Candela #cleanTransportation #drivingDirections #electricBoat #EVs #ferry #GoogleMaps #greenTransportation #navigation #Polestar #Potomac