Polestar Reevaluates Interior Design with Focus on Buttons and Color

Daily Car

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19/02/2026

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Polestar will change the way it builds car interiors - the company will add more real buttons and offer more colors inside its electric cars, stepping back from the plain black-and-white look it uses now. This plan belongs to a larger schedule that adds four new models before the end of 2028.

Why Real Buttons Return

Two reasons push the switch - safety rules and ease of use. Euro NCAP, Europe's main crash test program, will demand physical switches for key tasks after 2025 if a car wants the top five star score. The rule reacts to data that show large touchscreens pull the driver's eyes off the road. A Polestar keeps almost every command on the central screen - only the steering wheel holds a handful of buttons plus one volume knob.

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More Colors Inside

Polestar will also give buyers brighter cabin colors - at present, the Polestar 3 and 4 come only in light grey, dark grey, white or black. Designers say wider choice will let the cabin show more character. The step also speaks to the brand's younger buyers, who average 45 years, about ten years below the age of most rival customers. Those rivals still sell mostly sober interiors too.

How Future Cars Will Look

The screen system will still run on Google's Android Automotive OS but it will allow deeper personal settings. The Polestar 5 flagship reaches showrooms this summer but its interior was locked in before this rethink - it may keep the older layout. The new approach should appear first in the next Polestar 2 sedan and in the future Polestar 7 compact SUV. The shift shows the brand is reacting to both buyer comments and new rules as it updates its line up.

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