I’ve not heard complaints about the heater on the leaf, the closest competition. For me it’s also a range thing, It seems mad to have to have the temperature set higher than it really needs to be to stop your hands being cooled and wasting all of that battery power. It’s a lovely car but there are things that could be done better. It’s a current model so you would think that it would be in Renault’s interest to improve it.

As with all technology you have to get the fixes rectified as soon as possible once the model is released. Before you know it the team that worked on the car will have moved onto the next model and then it gets far more expensive to repair as the new person tasked to fix it has to un-pick the design to understand that. They can then work out how they are going to fix it. Look at mobile phones, you only get updates for a few months then they dry up.

So I signed my documents on the 8th November and was told I was way over the cut-off point. dallybally – you should be able to get yourself a new contract….just contact battery contract people in EV Team at Renault Customer Care.

..and depreciation, or in the case of most of us with the Zoe, the cost of the PCP and battery hire as those cost more with additional miles. And tyre wear, and brake pad wear (though minimal) etc.

To think it’s 45p/mile pure profit isn’t quite right.

I hope the taxman doesn’t get wise: 200 miles plus bringing in up to £300 isn’t 45p a mile! 200 miles is £90..

What mileage is your contract for? I know the car is only 5p/mile for every mile above contract but not sure how the battery works out for excess miles. and the PCP deal isn’t free anyway.

(Even if you pay for electricity, on Economy 7 it’s still only 1.5p/mile…)

But getting 45p/mile for business mileage still leaves you a fair bit in the black.

I see you use several times kW/100km, and when you talk about the energy in the battery you say 22kW.
I think you mean kWh/100km and 22kWh.
This mistake is made very often in articles, but it really means something different.
Power (P) has unit W or kW.
Energy (E) has unit Wh or kWh.

13000 miles.

Front left tire – tread too low. But this may have also been due to slamming on brakes to avoid hitting a deer. It didn’t work. Still hit deer. So have have other bits replaced!

Also had an issue with the charger in the car (NOT the battery). Unsure of the exact problem but I ran my car down to near 0% on the way home in December. It was VERY cold (minus 5). Since then the car stopped charging via calendar and then full stop. Renault replaced the bits.

Rest of the car like new 🙂

If they are going to lease the battery, you could question if it matters? So long as they’ve followed the instructions in the manual it would be up to renault if the battery drops below 75%?