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In reply to: It all happens tomorrow
Funny old thing been given a bankers cheque but a bankers cheque it was and its in the bank 🙂 the battery lease is done (a good saving that forgot I was paying £83 a month) all done and dusted
Funny thing driving the Mk 2 home seems very light I guess you guys will tell me its the new tyres. It all works all singing and dancing
There was another black one waiting too be collected I must say it did look cool 🙂
There is one thing that has not changed for me guys The Zoe is a really cool car 🙂
Happy days 🙂
In reply to: Something has changed? 100 miles range
Dan – how is a software update going to change power consumed? It is very unlikely you can make an electric motor more efficient through software – its basic engineering – parameters that are hardware not software, plus volts and amps, which are a function of the battery, which again, I cannot see how a battery could store more power through a software change, unless the charging regime took them to a higher charge, but this would be marginal surely.
I don’t mind the R&D being done on the fly though; we essentially had discounts to allow for development. The charge point is only free if you have an O2 signal – this is for monitoring usage; it’s a big experiment for which they effectively pay us.
I don’t own the car either, not on PCP anyway!
In reply to: Something has changed? 100 miles range
100 miles on one charge Samsam “well I never” in two years I have never achieved that not even close you have got some battery there 🙂
Happy days 🙂
In reply to: Something has changed? 100 miles range
Heaters were on all day. It was3 degrees when she set out. Cold starts must have an impact. The batteries are so dense they must take a long time to reach ambient temperature. The leaf has a battery temp gauge and it doesn’t start to move till mid afternoon. Zoe’s battery heater doesn’t cut in until – 17°c.
In reply to: Looks like the Zoe might have a poor Russian cousin…
Thanks. Looks like about 8000 GBP (700,000 rubles), if that’s including the battery then that’s not that bad.
In reply to: RANGE SURVEY
Monitor the mpkwh figure one day and that I believe is your range the next day, when multiplied by 22. Get 4mpkwh one day, and the range the next is 88miles. Drive at 4mpkwh again and you will get the predicted 88miles.
I understand that theory, but I don’t see it in practice. For example, at the weekend I had 3.4 mpkWh but on a full battery it only predicted 70 miles range. I have seen that so often that as I drive along I regularly ignore the predicted range and instead multiply what battery I have left by the mpkwh so see how much range I can actually get.
In reply to: Chargin Bay Etiquette..
I’m pretty sure a 400v modern EV will have more electrical safety protocols in place than my 1992 mini which has its battery about 2ft away from the fuel tank.
Plus all garages have shop/pay kiosk. There is 240v sitting live all day and night with no issues.
The reason there are no EV bays is because fuel companies doesn’t want to encourage EV. But private retailers like Asda have no excuse.
In reply to: Looks like the Zoe might have a poor Russian cousin…
More info is here: http://ellada-kalina.ru/texnicheskie-xarakteristiki-lada-ellada/
The car is based on Lada Kalina(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lada_Kalina) and uses 23khw LiFePO4 battery(usually used in China). The battery is made by Chinese Thunder Sky.
It can drive 150 km on 1 charge.
Anyway the car is not available to end users, but only if it would be a bulk order they say.In reply to: Charging Issues?
An interesting vehicle that might be a contender for an EV conversion is a Lada Niva (stop sniggering at the back – I had one of these before I got my Defender and it certainly gives it a run for its money)
These are built with the military version in mind and so have the fuel tank on the inside under the seats – a perfect spot for a battery.
What might be a challenge is getting a prop shaft driven off the gear box for the rear wheels.
In reply to: Zoe and puddles deeper than about 2inches
I’m glad this has been cleared up, my concern was that the limit of water depth was so low. You know what its like in these manuals though they like to cover themselves.
I also got a bit of a freak on when I read the battery lease agreement, which in basic terms said, you make sure the battery is insured and if we think its not properly covered and something happens to it you’ll pay us the entire value (and we decide what that value is). Although having now registered on the My Renault site their accident help setup seems to cover most of that stuff, and my insurer (Privilege) said that the battery would be covered with no issue.
Yes Zoe has been on sale for a wee while now, but i’m one of those lucky folk that gets crashed into (only once been my fault, argued with a parked car d’oh) or I have the most random failures, like a perfectly good clutch that failed and on strip down the garage could find nothing wrong with it.
Only a couple more days of small freak outs and then I’ll be flying up the motorway to Kinross to try out their rapid charger, it will probably be offline and I’ll be cackin’ it to the slow charger in Glenrothes with the biggest bowel loosening bout of range anxiety i’ve ever experienced lol.
