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As I understand it – the PCP excess mileage is 5p a mile and the battery is 0.30p a mile.
I spoke with RCI (Renault Finance) yesterday and they explained it to me that the Zoe is connected to Renault through R-link and Z.E connect.
If you exceed your 750 miles a quarter you would be billed. What they couldn’t tell me is if this would happen at the next Direct Debit or as a separate invoice. They are going to call me back on that point.
They did explain however that if you think you will exceed the 750 miles per quarter battery allowance, you can call them and increase it to the £50 per month tariff for 7,500 miles P.A. But once you increase it you would have to wait 12 months to change the tariff again (to reduce it back to 750 miles P.A for example).
Sounds flexible. Hopefully it will be in practice…..
@buchanan101 I presumed the wall box is only monitoring charger usage, and that mileage isn’t passed back to them? I believe you’re supposed to have access to this data yourself too, there’s a website you can login to?
I suspect if mileage is reported, it’s done directly to Renault by the car. I’d be surprised if it didn’t do it, but I haven’t seen any mention of it.
Some discussion here about costs:
http://myrenaultzoe.com/index.php/topic/do-renault-really-invoice-quarterly-on-the-750-mile-rental/Seems like it might be 30p/mile extra on battery lease now, 5p for the PCP? Why they can’t just have a flat rate so it works out the same based on your mileage, I do not know. Some industries are forced to tell us if we’re not on their cheapest tariff (I think either gas/elec or mobile providers?); we shouldn’t have silly tariff anywhere that penalise us for not being able to estimate our use in advance 🙁
The dealer did tell me that the battery rental can be renegotiated. May have to as took out 9k pa and we’ve done 1k in the first month.
The car excess is only 5p a mile I think so that part is not really a worry.
I think they want you to change you agreement to reflect the mileage you’re doing; for 5p a mile you just wouldn’t bother.
But the battery rental seems great from the customers point of view. The battery is 6000, so even at 12000 miles, 83 quid a month tier, it will takes 6 years before you lose out. And that’s not even factoring in even if you did keep the car that long, you’d be demanding to rent a new battery.
Ah, of course!
We’ve got about 1k more/year each than we normally do (wife does 2k, is going on 750/qtr, I do 8k, going on 9k/yr); so should be ok. The only danger is if driving is fun, we might do more of it! I’m told both PCP and Battery mileage can be increased easily enough, though!
Read and weep:
††Renault ZOE offer includes the UK government’s plug-in car grant (PiCG). ZOE monthly payment of £129 per month excludes mandatory battery hire from £50 per month, based on 7500 miles per year, excess miles 30p per mile including VAT. You will not own the battery. Visit renault.co.uk/zoe
for full terms and conditions.From here: http://offers.renault.co.uk/cars/zoe?ccbm=63&ccus=1414005265912
If the miles rolled over to the next quarter, it would be the same as an annual rental.
Its interesting about the annual ones – Renault lowered the monthly battery rentals but upped the excess mileage to 30p a mile across the board – that could be a nasty sting, as even an extra 1000 miles will cost 300 quid.
(I know some here are on the older contract or managed to get better deals though)
Renault do seem a bit lackadaisical, so I guess we’ll see.
Yeah; in all our calculations, we found that battery hire + elec works out at basically the same as our petrol costs us now. We’re not really doing it to save money there though; we both wanted new cars (with warranties), and the ZOE just seemed like a better option than ICEs (nicer drive, more stuff as standard, less to go wrong; etc.).
Interested to know if you do find out if they’re having mileage reported (would be handy to know if any miles we don’t use in a quarter can be “used” in the next quarter).
I guess the question applies equally to the annual ones – am I restricted to 9k/year, or just 36k by the time the PCP is up after 4 years?
In the latest brochure, there’s a battery lease option for 750 miles/quarter. It’s specifically written as a quarterly limit, whereas all of the others are written as annual figures. Presumably this means they want to hold you to 750/qtr and not let you do 100 in the first quarter than then 2900 in the last!
How are the monitoring this? Does the ZOE report your mileage back to them for this purpose?
In reply to: Zoe at auction
Interesting! Please let us all know the outcome.
I don’t think I would be brave enough to buy one at auction. Too many complications with it not being a regular car. Why is such a new car going to auction? What will he do about battery lease if not going through a dealer. Do the auction house even have a charging point, or will he have to get a tow truck to simply get it home?
Still, if he knows what he’s doing, sounds like he might pick up a bargain, especially if nobody else wants to bid. Good luck to him!
