Polestar develops video streaming app for its electric car

Polestar has developed its own video streaming app for its all-electric Polestar 2 and it brings web-based streaming content to the 11-inch centre display in the car.

With electric cars come charging times and the usually long wait that’s associated with them. The independent Swedish automotive brand Polestar is partly owned by Volvo and Geely was previously a racing outfit and performance division that post 2017, is now exclusively developing high-performance electric vehicles. Having developed its own video streaming app for its all-electric Polestar 2, it now brings web-based streaming content from various providers directly to the 11-inch centre display in the car through the Android Automotive OS. Content includes news services and national TV broadcasts where available, as well as a video playlist curated by Polestar. At launch, the app includes feeds from SVT in Sweden, TV2 in Norway, and GOPlay and RTBF in Belgium. All European markets also receive feeds from BBC Ideas, Al Jazeera English and Germany’s tagesschau. Additional feeds specific to other markets will be added over time.