Polestar 3 breaks a world record for EV range

Swedish brand Polestar has a set a new world record for a production electric SUV on a single battery charge.

The record run was carried out in the UK, where three professional drivers covered 935.44km in a Polestar 3 Long Range Single Motor SUV.

It knocks off the previous EV SUV record set by a Ford Mustang Mach-E in 2024 – also set in the UK – of 916.74km but still trails the outright Guinness World Record for distance covered on a single charge by an EV. 

That was set only weeks before the Polestar’s run, with a team in Germany covering 1205km on a single charge in a Lucid Air GT sedan. 

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The new SUV result easily beat the Polestar 3’s official 706km (WLTP) range, with 20 per cent battery charge remaining when the team reached the official distance. 

It also recorded energy efficiency of 12.1kWh/100km, bettering the official WLTP figure of 17.6-20.3kWh/100km. 

The record-setting Polestar also travelled 12.8km after its official distance-to-empty hit zero and was completely standard, including its factory-fitted 20-inch ‘Aero’ alloy wheels and Michelin Sport 4 EV tyres. 

Video footage, odometer readings, GPS and battery levels were independently monitored throughout the attempt, which took 22 hours and 57 minutes. 

“For a large premium SUV to go way beyond a London to Edinburgh distance is truly impressive and with this the adage that ‘EVs can’t go far’ has been very much consigned to the history books,” said Polestar UK managing director Matt Galvin in a statement. 

Priced from $116,745 before on-road costs in Australia, the Polestar 3 Long Range Single Motor uses a 220kW/490Nm electric motor powering the rear wheels, with a 111kWh lithium-ion battery. 

It also boasts a 7.8-second 0-100km/h time and top speed of 180km/h. 

It’s not the first record Polestar has set in 2025, with the brand recording its best-ever H1 (January-June) global sales this year. 

Sales of the Polestar 3 in Australia have trailed the more affordable Polestar 2 and the newer Polestar 4 so far this year, sitting 53rd on the EV sales charts with 101 sales to the end of June. 

The Model Y remains the best-selling EV in Australia, although it was beaten for the month of July by the BYD Sealion 7.

Overall, Polestar’s local sales were up 23.6 per cent in the first half of 2025, a trend the brand carried into July with a 123.3 per cent year-on-year gain. 

The Polestar 7 – a compact electric SUV – has been confirmed, with production scheduled to start in Slovakia in 2028. Before then, Polestar will introduce the Polestar 5, a sleek, full-size fastback.

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