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Scott Maynard

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210 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

So, we've got a great representation of service and that's where that partnership with Volvo comes into play.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

You can take the Fossard or pretty much any Volvo service department and they'll know exactly what to do with the car so that it's well supported because we do value that five-year journey.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

The worst thing we could do is sell everyone in Australia one car.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

We need to be able to do this

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

on a model that allows uh well that encourages people to refer their friends to come back to us again so it's a relationship that we need to build and because we're five years young and uh we still have a um a containable um customer base we can get quite personal with every one of our customers which is which is really lovely

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

Yes.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

So, you can jump online right now.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

You can spec up a Polestar, hit buy, put down your money and you'll own a car.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

It's still possible to do it that way if the overwhelming preference of a purchaser is to do it semi-remotely.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

However,

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

The vast majority of our customers will come and visit one of our centres and speak with our teams, go through the product and drive it and see it in a space.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

And no matter how it's purchased, we will still do a proper handover experience in, again, a very carefully set up handover space, which is nice and quiet.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

We can step the customers through the product and make sure that they leave with a full understanding of it.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

So we can offer both, but it's got to be personal.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

Yeah, well, there's a bit to come.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

So we, our global CEO, Michael Loeschler, made a fairly strategic announcement a couple of months ago, or it wasn't even that ago now, recently, and he spoke about an updated version of Polestar 4.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

We'll get to keep the coupe that currently is our best-selling car.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

There'll be a new variant of that, a vehicle that's perhaps a bit more practical, perhaps a little bit more styled on a wagon or an SUV style of vehicle.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

We're looking forward to bringing that to market.

Two Blokes Talking Tech
Electric Cars: Polestar Boss on sales and the future

That will come hopefully at the end of this year.