Similar here, adding up on mileage on my MOT (which gives your last 5 MOT’d distances) I was covering 6k, but I know this was because I had the old car and we used my partners b-max more. I know for a fact once Claire realises how cheap ZOE is to run we will end up using my car more. Hence 10.5k decision.

I believe on the 750miles a quarter deal that Renault check they telemetry from your car and charge quarterly excess miles, in the other deals its combined over 3 years and you get whacked at the end (although in small print of battery lease they do say if there is a more than 20% difference they an change your payments, yup that vague).

So, first attempt at this today… In Costa, turned the heating on via the ZE Services Android App…

Walked back to the car (about 1-2 mins), and the car was silent. As I opened the door, the fans kicked in.

So, in my initial testing of just one attempt; it has worked 100% of the timer, but with a minute or two delay! 😉

It was parked in an open car park in Chester; so would’ve had good signal. Battery was 99% (had just charged it at Asda around the corner).

Let’s hope this wasn’t fluke!

Samsam, I am with Ecotricity, a green energy supplier and they do a special rate for ev owners. Not sure how it compares with the “big five” but, for me it is the principle of being as green as possible (just because I can – rather like owning a Zoe rather than a cheaper small diesel hatch, and using my solar panels whenever I can to keep our carbon footprint as small as poss). Plus, they do a wonderful job (in the main) with their fast chargers on our motorway services. I agree, smart meters and more flexible rates for off peak are the way to go but the big energy companies are so slow to take a lead! Maybe the smaller ones, like Ecotricity, might lead the way? Otherwise I’ll be getting a battery backup in our house pretty damn soon (even if it is off-grid)!

I prefer coasting too; though not using the brake when slowing is cool too 🙂

My main concern if I’ve got missing updates, is that I might be missing out on some boost to mpkwh as others have been reporting. I still don’t know what they could’ve changed, but at least two people reported what appeared to be significant overnight jumps in efficiency!

Both our cars showed a range of 72/73 miles when we picked them up (full battery). Lower than I expected; they only had 6 miles on the clock!

That’s very interesting Alloam and clearly you would be much better qualified to comment than someone who doesn’t drive a Zoe.
Mine had an update when the dash was changed recently and , whilst I hadn’t been aware of a difference in regen , i did notice it being much stronger in a borrowed Env-200, it was also much more apparent in the Nissan that there was no regen when battery was full.
Maybe now Renault have some long term dated they have decided that dialling down the Regen is better for the average punter ?

When I spoke to battery people recently who threw in a few miles for me in light of fact I drew short straw and had more expensive battery deal than others who got theirs a few weeks later than me. He said you can speak to them in advance and pay for extra mileage before handing back car …I got the impression that would be cheaper solution.

Interesting.. I knew PCP was like that (because cars never reported mileage before), but assumed all battery rental was the same. However, I just checked, and the wording in the annual battery mileage is pretty vague (whereas the other is quite explicit), so what you say could be true (though it’s not clearly one way or the other).

So, we have two copies of battery rental agreements now…

Mine (9k/year) states a charge of £7.50 per hundred miles additional charge.

Wife’s (750/quarter) states a charge of 30p per mile additional charge.

So, mine isn’t so bad! I presume it’s just the low rate one that is a ripoff.

However, there’s also a chance it just changed at some point, as there are other (non-range-related) differences, such as one agreement containing “telecoms device” where the other says “odometer”. Both agreements were printed today though; so I presume there are two agreements, and only one of them was updated with the new wording! It’s mine that says odometer; so maybe when they created the (new) quarterly contract, they “improved” the wording of some other bits too.

Still not sure why the website is different again; but 7.5p for mine is much better. We’ll check them periodically though, to try and avoid going over. Think we should be fine though 🙂