I’ve test-driven all of the above (Polestar 2, C40, XC40 P8) — the P2 multiple times over the last couple of years. The P2 looks great on the outside, for sure, and it drives well. But on the inside, these are the things that keep me from seriously considering buying it: (1) going “Tesla”, in terms of both the lack of practical physical buttons/dials and in terms of the cheap-looking “iPad-glued-to-dashboard” computer screen; (2) glass roof with no way to shield light from it and no way to option an all-metal roof (if Toyota can put electrochromic roof glass in its much-cheaper Venza, then Volvo/Polestar can do it also); (3) slow charging architecture (all Polestar and Volvo BEVs should be 800-volt architecture by now; heck, even Kia and Hyundai have done it); (4) battery pack is too small, and combined with (3), these are not cars for taking on long road trips. Now, if I only bought a P2 for local driving (i.e., only charging at home and not driving more than 100 miles from home), it would be ok on my points (3) and (4). But I have a ’22 XC60 T8 ER, and it has more physical buttons/dials than the P2 does, and I find it to be horrible in terms of having to go into a touchscreen into sub-menus way too often while driving — decreasing safety tremendously (and getting my wife yelling at me for doing so). So I’m going in the opposite direction and looking to get away from these touchscreens that make things like climate and audio control (incl. phone calling) a real issue while driving, and I’m just attracted more to cars that implement horizontal screens (instead of Tesla-style portrait screens) nicely embedded into the dashboard (instead of being glued on top of it), especially in cars costing > $50k USD. Having an all-metal roof is paramount to me for many reasons, as well (glare, safety issue in roll-over accident, difficulty to keep clean, propensity to crack or break if rocks or falling branches hit the roof, extra weight reducing range, propensity for roof-glass seals to leak water into cabin). It’s too bad, because Volvo and Polestar could make these cars much better; Teslas are horrible cars to emulate, really — there’s very little good to them other than that they have reasonable (not great) charging characteristics and they have the superior Tesla Supercharging-station network. My biggest advice to automakers making BEVs is not to emulate Tesla on anything other than manufacturing nuts-and-bolts (certainly not style or design in any manner). The best interior designs in BEVs that I have seen so far are the Taycan and the Lucid Air; they’re pretty fabulous inside (i.e., instrument panels, computer screens, layout of climate-control buttons, etc.); and you can get both the Taycan and the Lucid Air with all-metal roofs.
I also agree with the commenter above in this thread that I’d like to see a Polestar or Volvo BEV Cross Country wagon. The Polestar 3 looks to be exactly that, in futuristic-appearance form (Jonny Smith noted in his YouTube review of it that the roof height is the same as a V70 Cross Country wagon, and he challenges Polestar’s labeling of it as an SUV); it looks so good, in fact, that I’ll seriously consider buying it despite it having the same four problems outlined above that I don’t like in the P2. It sounds like they’re improving the charging speed and the size of the battery pack in the P3 (but not to near the level of Taycan or the forthcoming Macan Electric or Lucid Air). But even with the P3, it’s not a slam-dunk for me because of those four issues. A big negative with the P3, Taycan, and Lucid Air is that they all start around $85k-$90k — much more expensive than the P2.