For the past six or seven years, electric car makers have treated the cabin like an empty electronics store, stripping out reliable dials and switches in the name of minimalism – and leaving the person behind the wheel to poke blindly at a slab of glass, trying to turn on a heated rear window through three layers of submenus. That’s why I believe the most interesting detail on Polestar’s new Formula 2030 concept car is not its wide rear arches or its wild coach doors. It is the group of physical controls sitting right at the base of the center console.
Unveiled in Gothenburg during the media drives for the Polestar 4,
