Making its debut on iPad, and soon on Android tablets, the Renault ZOE application opens your eyes to a world of experiences.
Renault ZOE is now in your hands, thanks to an all-new app. Dive into the world of the full-electric city car and its seductive mix of technology and ecology.
Just like a video game, enjoy ZOE in an astonishingly life-like virtual environment. Check it out from every angle, zoom in, hop inside, and get answers to all your questions from our experts.
The new app, easy and fun to use and packed with information, is available now in the AppStore* and soon on Google Play.
ZOE has been named Business Eco-Safety Vehicle of the Year 2013, in the 18th Trophées de L’Automobile & L’Entreprise (automotive and business awards), held on Monday July 1.
The prize was awarded by a jury made up of journalists, members of the editorial team of the magazine “Automobile et Entreprise”, and fleet managers. The Eco-Safety Vehicle category selects the cleanest and safest vehicles, based on fuel type, the Euro standard, carbon emissions, pollutants and EuroNCAP results.
With zero emissions in use and zero noise, ZOE respects both the environment and pedestrians. Delivering both safety and quality, it received the maximum 5-star score in the new EuroNCAP tests. Launched at end-2012, this compact electric vehicle is now available in eleven European countries. Sixty patents have been filed for ZOE, a car designed from the start as an electric vehicle, with the best range on the market.
Renault is world No. 1 in electric vehicles and the only vehicle manufacturer to market a full “zero emission” range.
Renault-Nissan sells its 100,000th Zero-Emisson car (Image: Renault)
American graduate student took delivery of the 100,000th electric vehicle
Renault-Nissan EVs outsell all other major automakers combined
Nissan LEAF remains world’s best-selling EV
With its latest EV ZOE, Renault expands its zero-emission lineup and reinforces its leadership in Europe
PARIS (July 23, 2013)—The Renault-Nissan Alliance has sold its 100,000th zero-emission car.
Electric cars from Renault and Nissan have driven approximately 841 million zero-emission kilometers — enough to circle the earth more than 20,000 times. Together, they represent 53 million liters of oil saved and 124 million kg of C02 that have not been emitted.
“The age of the mainstream zero-emission vehicle is here,” said Renault-Nissan Alliance Chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn. “We expect demand to keep growing as the charging infrastructure develops – and we remain 100% committed to zero-emission technology for the long term.”
Renault-Nissan has sold more zero-emission cars than all other major automakers combined.
The very first EV from the Alliance is a Nissan LEAF owned by engineer Olivier Chalouhi in California’s Silicon Valley. He bought the LEAF when it debuted in December 2010.
The 100,000th customer was American graduate student Allison Howard, who became an owner of Nissan LEAF earlier this month and drives the car to Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
“It just drives perfectly. It’s so cool. I love it!” said Howard.
“The fact that it’s all electric and I don’t have to spend money on gas as a college student, that’s great,” she added.
For more information about Renault-Nissan’s electric vehicle customers and its 100,000 milestone, watch this video.
Nissan LEAF best-selling EV ever
More than 71,000 people worldwide have bought Nissan LEAF, the world’s best-selling electric vehicle. LEAF makes up more than half of all global sales of pure electric cars.
Nissan LEAF won the 2011 World Car of the Year, European Car of the Year 2011 and Car of the Year Japan 2011-2012 awards.
More than 80% of LEAF buyers globally exchange cars from other automakers, making the LEAF one of the industry’s most innovative “conquest vehicles.” The majority of customers say the LEAF, which consumes no petroleum whatsoever, has replaced their conventional car for daily use.
The top markets for Nissan LEAF are the United States with about 30,000 units, Japan with 28,000 units, and Europe with 12,000 units.
In the United States, the LEAF is among the top 10 vehicles sold in San Francisco, Seattle and Honolulu.
In Norway, the LEAF is one of the top 10 vehicles sold. The car is Nissan’s best-selling model in Norway, where more than 4,600 people have bought LEAFs since 2011. EVs in Norway are exempt from value added tax (VAT) and road tolls, and they have access to bus lanes and free parking.
Renault – Europe’s leader with full range of electric vehicles
Renault has sold about 30,000 electric vehicles since its first model, Kangoo Z.E., went on sale in late 2011. Kangoo Z.E. was voted International Van of the Year 2012.
Renault leads the electric vehicle market in Europe with a 61% share, including Twizy. .Renault’s top markets in Europe are France, Germany and Italy.
In addition to the Kangoo Z.E., Renault also offers Fluence Z.E. sedan; the two-seat commuter vehicle Twizy; and the subcompact ZOE, launched earlier this year.
Twizy is Renault’s best-selling model with about 11,000 units sold since it went on sale in early 2012.
Renault ZOE has a range of 210 km (NEDC). The car retails from 13,700 euros in France after the government’s 7,000-euro incentive, excluding the battery. Renault began selling the ZOE in March throughout Europe and has sold about 5,000 units.
Committed to a zero-emission future
The Alliance is the industry leader in EVs and remains fully committed to a zero-emission future, with vehicles that can be recharged using purely renewable energy.
The plug-in cars store energy in a lithium-ion battery that meets or exceeds all environmental and safety standards wherever they are sold. The vehicles can be “topped off” at any charge point, or they can be fully recharged overnight from the convenience of the driver’s home, garage or parking deck.
In order to accelerate the uptake of electric vehicles around the world, the Renault-Nissan Alliance is working with government authorities, utility companies and others to rollout a network of charging stations that allow drivers to recharge their cars from zero to 80% capacity in less than 30 minutes.
This is a partial repost of a blog post by Jack Rickard at EVTV Motor Verks – he is well known as a leading light in the electric car conversion community. I had various plans for posts today, then I came across this one (pointed out by Kevin Sharpe on the Electric Vehicles (UK) site). It struck a chord and I decided to pass it on. Note that it is a no-holds-barred polemic so don’t read it if you take offence easily. What fascinates me is that though we hold hugely different views on many things (for example he has no truck with global warming, and supports gun ownership) I can still relate to his views on oil addiction – and he has a very powerful way of expressing them.
Jack Rickard of EVTV (Image: Autoblog.com)
A gentleman on LinkedIn posted a question about the “Cool Fun Factors of Converting a Car To EV”. I pondered this question for several minutes. They are cool. They are fun. But the question frankly annoyed me a bit and I couldn’t quite figure out why. Writing is basically a discovery process. You find out what you really think when you try to write it down for others. And so I formulated a response. It was some sort of moderated group and I guess it didn’t match his concept of Cool or Fun because it was never “approved” for public consumption. That happens to me a bit in this new Internet world where everything goes as long as you agree with it. But I thought I would share it. It’s an oddly twisted piece of work, apparently from an oddly twisted old man.
Every time I pumped a gallon of gas, I knew, and they knew, and they knew I knew, and I knew they knew I knew, that I really had no choice. They could charge 26 cents a gallon, which I have paid, or 50 cents per gallon, which I have paid, or $1 a gallon, which I have paid, or $2 a gallon, which I have paid, or $3 a gallon, which I have paid, or $4 a gallon, which I have paid or $5 a gallon, which I have paid, and I was going to pay it, because I have to have a car and it has to take me where I want to go. No choice. No option. They own me. And I don’t really have a goddamned thing to say about it.
And the guy with the gas station gets a little bit, and the state gets a little bit, and the Federal government gets a little bit, and the refinery gets quite a bit, and the country where the oil comes from gets quite a bit, and the guy who boats it over here gets a little bit, and actually the least of these is the guy with the gas station right here in town. He gets 4 cents a gallon.
And I knew, and they knew, and they knew I knew, and I knew they knew I knew, that if gasoline goes to $6 a gallon I’ll pay it, and $7 a gallon I’ll pay it, and $8 a gallon and I’ll pay it and $9 a gallon and I’ll pay it and they will all make just a little bit more when I do, and I’ll have just a little bit less. And I don’t have a goddamned thing to say about that.
And just to remind me that I knew, and they knew I knew, and I knew they knew I knew, in 1978 we had a little “gas shortage” in southern California where we waited in line for hours on end just to get the 10 gallons they would “allow us” at any price they wanted, and we tried to live our lives on that 10 gallons before going back to get at the end of the line one more time for another 10 gallons. It went on for over a year. And I didn’t have a goddamned thing to say about it. Had to have a car. It had to have gas.
And I even knew, and they knew I knew, and I knew they knew I knew, that they could take the money I put in that pump for gasoline and split it up seventeen ways, and there was still enough left over in the end to train fine young men who otherwise lived as I lived, and wanted what I wanted, that the reason they couldn’t have what I have, is that my land was the land of Satan. Bent on their destruction and in defiance of the laws of God and men and that they would indeed be rewarded in paradise if they but gave their lives to destroy our land and kill thousands of innocent people in my land and teach them a lesson by taking away forever their fathers, and their husbands, and their wives, and aunts and uncles and mothers all in the name of Allah. And I would continue to feed that pump. And I would feed it, and I would feed it and I would feed it forever. And I would feed it because I really didn’t have a goddamned thing to say about it. Nothing at all.
But what I also knew, and they knew, and they didn’t know I knew that they knew, because, so few knew and they knew that few knew, is that that gasoline, and my car, was spewing toxic gasses out the ass end that cause autism, Alzheimers disease, cancer, diabetes, and a host of other diseases that were virtually unheard of less than a century ago. And even though I knew, and they knew, they kept right on selling it. And I kept right on buying it. I kept feeding that pump and driving that car and I didn’t have a goddamned thing to say about it.
And then one day, with my American Express card clutched in one hand, and the pump nozzle in the other, watching the poor guy who runs the gas station and makes the least of all out of it, change the sign to raise the price of it all one more time, something snapped inside. Something just broke. I said “screw this” and put the pump nozzle back in the pump and walked off and left my car at the gas station and walked all the way home.
But they knew, and I knew and I knew they knew that I knew, that you just can’t live your life walking. You have to carry stuff. And it gets cold. And it gets hot. And it rains. And people attack you if you’re walking. And they take away the stuff you’re trying to carry. And it takes too much time. And it just doesn’t work. And you really just don’t have a goddamned thing to say about it. You have to have a car. It has to have gas.
World premiere: Partnership Renault and Atos to offer secure shopping from your car thanks to the new R-Link tablet available in several Renault models
Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris 9 July 2013
Atos Worldline, the expertise of Atos in electronic payments and transactional services implements the Renault R-Link Cloud services platform, an embedded and connected multimedia system, already provided in many cars in the Renault range.
Atos Worldline has entrusted connectivity issues to Orange Business Services, one of the main business telecommunications operators in the world. Renault R-Link, an integrated and connected multimedia system, intended for use in a vehicle, is easy to navigate thanks to a large touch screen and an applications store open to external partners so that it can constantly be kept up to date.
The system’s ergonomics and features have been designed to make Renault R-Link the most secure system on the market for the driver and for the vehicle.
Atos was awarded the Innovation Trophy by Renault-Nissan during the ceremony of Supplier Awards held last month.
Atos and Renault are recognized in the market as being major players in the fields of mobility and connected cars. Gartner positions Atos as the European leader in the supply of mobility services worldwide (Gartner, Competitive Landscape: Enterprise Mobility C&SI Services, Major Providers, Worldwide, March, 2012) and the study SBD’s Connected Car Guide, March 2012 by the specialist firm SBD ranksRenault among the top three Connected Cars on the market in Europe.
Jean-François Martin, Director of Renault Services International said:
“Our relationship with time and space is changing rapidly; we are becoming increasingly mobile, connected, demanding, including when we are in our car. With R-Link, Renault aims to offer customers not only the car that suits them, but in addition the most cutting edge personalized and interactive services, at the best price, creating a global partner ecosystem with a winning business model. Atos Worldline, thanks to their vision of our market, their strong capacity for innovation and their full service smart mobility offering, have proved themselves to us having been our partners since the start of the project, marking a break with the traditional practices of Renault and a new era in our relationship with our clients.”
In depth knowledge and experience of the automobile market, is a key factor in success
The ambition and tight programme deadlines of this offering have allowed Atos Worldline to demonstrate its capacity to mobilize all its professional and technological skills.
Atos Worldline, thanks to its capacity for worldwide deployment in the Cloud and pay-per-use has been able to make this ambition a reality, drawing on its expertise in the field of service platforms, contextual mobility, M2M and Connected Machines, e-commerce and payment. Relying on the telecommunications operator Orange, drawing on its international network, alliances and global roaming agreements, the service offering of Atos Worldline includes recognized expertise in the field of mobile networks and connectivity. Furthermore, the proposed solution, based on the Atos Worldline winning business model and capacity for innovation has allowed all Renault’s requirements in terms of innovation and support to be met.
Marc-Henri Desportes, Executive Committee Member at Atos commented:
“As a long standing partner of Renault, we are proud to support construction of the R-Link project, which aims to improve the experience of the driver and customer relations by implementing new contextual mobility services. Mobility is a strategic investment area for Atos. We help our customers to make contextual mobility services into a direct and sustainable competitive advantage, which opens up new possibilities for all business sectors. Our open, robust, scalable and flexible platform can integrate all content and service suppliers, allowing new revenue streams to be generated and improving customer satisfaction via an income and risk sharing model.”
Atos Worldline relies on the knowhow of Orange Business Services when it comes to international connectivity. Orange Business Services will supply Renault with all the M2M SIM cards that will be embedded into the cars in M2M devices, and provide the relevant subscriptions. Data exchanged between the car and the Atos Worldline platform will pass through a secure system via Orange mobile networks and those of its European partners. Drawing on the Orange Business Services international network, one of the largest in the world, and global roaming agreements, will also mean that Renault customers can benefit from R-Link services throughout Europe and beyond.
The Innovation Award
Every year, Renault-Nissan’s Purchasing Organization (RNPO) present its Supplier Awards. On Monday, June 17, 2013, the Innovation Award was given to Atos for R-Link, an innovation that allows Renault to offer a solution to sell connected services and be at the forefront of the automotive industry.
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