Swedish brand Polestar has a set a new world record for a production electric SUV on a single battery charge.

The record run was carried out in the UK, where three professional drivers covered 935.44km in a Polestar 3 Long Range Single Motor SUV.

It knocks off the previous EV SUV record set by a Ford Mustang Mach-E in 2024 – also set in the UK – of 916.74km but still trails the outright Guinness World Record for distance covered on a single charge by an EV. 

That was set only weeks before the Polestar’s run, with a team in Germany covering 1205km on a single charge in a Lucid Air GT sedan. 

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The new SUV result easily beat the Polestar 3’s official 706km (WLTP) range, with 20 per cent battery charge remaining when the team reached the official distance. 

It also recorded energy efficiency of 12.1kWh/100km, bettering the official WLTP figure of 17.6-20.3kWh/100km. 

The record-setting Polestar also travelled 12.8km after its official distance-to-empty hit zero and was completely standard, including its factory-fitted 20-inch ‘Aero’ alloy wheels and Michelin Sport 4 EV tyres. 

Video footage, odometer readings, GPS and battery levels were independently monitored throughout the attempt, which took 22 hours and 57 minutes.