Our journey following the Pole Star in the Polestar 2 sees us take the Swedish brand's all-electric saloon to Shetland exploring wild nature, traditional hamlets and ferry crossings
We’re hoping to drive the length of Shetland and back without needing a charge, so after an untaxing cruise we pause at Porsche Centre Aberdeen to use its public DC rapid charger, meaning the battery is at 99% as we turn into the NorthLink Ferries terminal.
We’re on Mainland, the largest of the Shetland Islands group, but our goal means heading for the second-largest. Therefore, to reference Chris Rea’s other famous song about driving, we find ourselves continuing further north still, on the Road to Yell. We spot one of the Sullom Voe’s flare stacks burning orange on the horizon before banking off to the ferry terminal at Toft, where the MV Daggri – half the length of Hrossey – awaits us for the 20-minute crossing of Yell Sound.Halfway over, it passes its twin vessel: the pair tag-team opposing routes all day long. We perch on the observation deck to watch shallow islets drift by beneath a sky that’s blue, white, grey and yellow all at once.
In a heartbeat, we arrive on Unst, perhaps the most spectacular among these spectacular islands, and our final destination. On the quayside towers a pair of bright yellow tripods of Teesside steel – substructures for two more tidal turbines that will soon be added to the array, when their nacelles will be mounted on top.There are only 14 miles of road left as we point north one last time.
Until its owners return from their stroll, there is one other car here – a Ford B-Max that is both unlocked and missing its front passenger door handle. This is symptomatic of two facts about Shetland: that, notwithstanding the eponymous BBC police drama, it has the second-lowest crime rate in the UK , and that beyond Mainland, cars don’t need an MOT to drive here. We wander onto the beach to absorb the tranquillity. There is not another soul.
We slither past trucks and excavators – the dual-motor Polestar 2’s four-wheel drive would have been handy, but our Michelin Primacy 4s hang on gamely – to Launch Pad Elizabeth, right at the tip of the Ness. Gingerly, we place the car where the rockets will ignite.
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