Polestar problems by model
Owners have filed 841 complaints with NHTSA about the 2 Polestar models with enough data to profile here, covering 4 model years from 2021 through 2025. The Polestar 2 draws the most at 715, 85.0% of the make's total.
Complaint volume tracks how many cars a make sold as much as how they held up, and NHTSA complaints are unverified owner reports rather than confirmed defects. Nothing on this page compares Polestar against another manufacturer. Use it to find the model, then the model year, then read what owners of that year actually filed.
Every Polestar model
| Model | Model years | Complaints | Most-reported year | Top system that year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polestar 2 | 3 2021–2023 | 715 | 2022 378 | Back over prevention (57.4%) |
| Polestar 3 | 1 2025–2025 | 126 | 2025 126 | Electrical system (39.7%) |
Model years shown are those with at least 100 complaints on file, the gate every page on this site has to clear.
Reading the numbers
Across every Polestar model year on the site, back over prevention is the system named most often: 441 complaints, 63.3% of those filed under a named system. Individual model years diverge from that sharply, which is the reason to read the year rather than the badge.
Of the 841 complaints, 20 describe a crash.
Most-reported Polestar model years
The single heaviest model year of each Polestar nameplate, 2021–2025. Heaviest is not worst. Read it alongside the model page.