Punchline: they have an infinite series of numbers

(Maybe include some obtuse math proof)

In the world of vehicle naming, we’ve seen all kinds of mistakes and lack of foresight from many big-name manufacturers. For example:

BMW: Realistically, they’ve only got 100 numbers to pick from for each model. The 3-series? 318, 328, 330… they’re already stretching the line thin.

Tesla: If Tesla wants to spell more funny words, they need more letters to do it. Problem being, there’s only 25 letters!

McLaren: Basing your naming convention off power numbers is probably the stupidest thing you could do. They better hope engine development is fast, because it’s gotta outrun the manic McLaren release schedule. I hope you’re ready for the 1080S.

Porsche: They’re already fucked. So fucked, in fact, that they’re already backtracking. Let’s take the chassis codes of the 911, Porsche’s favorite golden goose. 930, starting pretty high up, but still ok. 993, bit of a jump, that’s ok. 996, we’re getting close to 1000. 991, wait a second? Minus 5? And now we’re 992. Does Porsche know the number 992 precedes is a car they already built, the 993? Perhaps not, because they just started doing tenths. I can’t wait for the 992.9899.

Now let’s talk about Polestar, the real winner in this lot. Why? Foresight.

The goal of a company is to survive and thrive. Polestar might not have figured out the second part, but with enough cash injections they can do the first quite well. Part of the reasoning is efficiency. You see, without the need to invent new and fancy names for upcoming models, more development time can be put into the important things on a car. They have no need to hold 15 corporate meetings to decide between 37 different names (with a last minute addition by Jared from marketing). The only place for them to go is up!

Another positive is just that: always positive! The public automatically looks at the new vehicle as an improvement over the last if the number is larger than before. It’s simple social engineering! They do have a possibility to do something really funny though and make the Polestar -1. The bean counters won’t like it.

Well, it sounds like our friends at polestar have solved the issue of a good car name, haven’t they? That’s where you’re wrong. In theory, math is just a language. Just a description of an iteration of logic, no observations to do. However, we don’t live in the land of theory. We live in the land of THE REAL WORLD. We can only be certain of the laws of physics in the place where we observe them. I personally believe we might be living in a void and the rest of space might have a different speed of light or strength of gravitational force. I also think that a lot of weird things happen on event horizons of black holes, and we have no idea what kind of things could be beyond the observable universe and no reason to suspect that there’s nothing else out there. So does that mean if Polestar makes enough models, they’ll eventually dissolve into nothing? The naming convention so beloved, so revered by many, being the finally downfall of Volvos bastard child? We may never know, but at least now you’ve been properly informed.