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Given the deals on new ones; I can’t imagine it’ll sell for much (unless it’s to someone that doesn’t do their homework).. Is it an “i” version (battery bought, rather than leased)?

This is why scheduled charging and pre-heating are not available until ZE Services is set up.

I suspect it’s so that charging can be prevented if the owner stops paying battery lease payments.

I’ve read somewhere that the 12V battery should be replaced after 3 years. It could be that additional items come up for replacement after 4 years, making the servicing price jump.

It doesn’t look like they do much when they service the cars as there are no oil, oil filters or spark plugs to change. I guess it’s just brake fluid changes, air con filters and firmware updates.

I test drove a Tesla last year model S and it is what got me fixed on Electric cars, I did the maths on the Tesla – Nissan – Vauxhall Ampera (I know not full EV) and the Zoe and the Zoe won hands down,

Tesla is an amazing car but is it £60k amazing eerr Yes…

But work out the real life figures £60k for two years £30k GRV so its a £30k car, My ZOE when she arrives is £141 a month x 48 = £6768 + £63 x 48 = £3024 Battery Lease total £9792 now add charging 70 miles at £3.00 a charge over 6k a year £255 + £9792 = £10047 over 48 months.. So really over 4 years is a cheap car my Mokka has lost £10k in two years so winner winner chicken diner.

Craig

Yes, 15000 miles would cost 403 a year (15,000/260 miles a charge) *7

And its take a long time, so if you need to do long distances on a regular basis, then your car is essentially going to be off the road for 12 hours before while its being fulled charged.

I suppose that is the down side to the Tesla, but I think that is going to also become more and more of an issue with other EVs – the more the battery power increases, the further people will drive (demand will always match capacity) and the longer it will take to charge.

The last time I worked it out the range was around 89 miles doing 58 on the motorway, but there was as section of motorway with road works where the average speed was probably 46 – 48 MPH for a few miles.

Generally you will probably want to recharge before you get down to zero, you need to keep a bit of range in hand in case the charger isn’t working to allow you to get to the next.

Charging slows down after the battery reaches 80% so a 2 stop stratergy is probably better, stopping the charging before the battery is full. You should get to your 58 mile charger with a bit to spare provided you keep your speed in check.

It sounds very much that the heat-pump bearings have failed as this has happened recently to a Speak-EV forum member.

Our beautiful Zoe has failed yet again with multiple BCI states, the same faults that we had suffered a day after delivery of our car back in May 2013 so it doesn’t get better (Read all my posting in these forums):(

We own our Zoe outright so out of curiosity contacted a well known Ampera retailer in sheffield to ask what P/X we could expect for our Zoe against the Ampera and the answer was after a day or two, “we would not be interested in that, it’s the battery lease thing”.

We have now had enough of Zoe and feel so drained as after nearly two years of ownership Zoe has been off the road no less than four months in total.

We have contacted a local Renault dealer to request a P/X against a Captur but he as yet to get back to us! so much for trail blazing new BEV tech :/.

Patiently awaiting the launch of the Tesla model 3 as that’s where our next BEV is coming from 🙂