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In reply to: Charging it has all gone wrong
Just checking the whole history.
Longest time spent in one charge – 128 hours.
Most charge taken in one session – 50 kWh. (no, I don’t have a tesla!)
Overall it says I have used 2500 kWh for 5,000 miles, suggesting an average of 44 mile range on a full battery of 22 kWh, which is odd seeing as I usually average 80~90 mile on a battery.
In reply to: Introductions
Welcome, ecozed. I’m in your neck of the woods, up in Aberdeen itself. If anything like me you will quickly find yourself using Zoe more than anticipated. I have upped my mileage on the battery lease as a result. Finding chargers not too bad and it is okay for trips up and down to the central belt. Going up into the hills takes a bit more planning.
I had a meeting yesterday in Perth and I got down with just a 10 minute top up in Dundee, then parked at South Inch car park (the chargers here are 22kW) during my meeting. Got back to Aberdeen via Coupar Angus on that one charge. You get to trust the car more as you get to know it, and think ahead, then all is good.
I’m sure you will enjoy your new Zoe. Which dealer did you use? I got mine from Brechin.
In reply to: World’s electric car capital welcomes ZOE
I read that the real reason the battery is included, has to do with the taxes. If the battery is sold with the car, it has the same level of taxes (none) as the car itself. If it is leased, you do pay normal sales tax on that lease. So including the battery makes it even cheaper for the buyer.
In reply to: Buying a Zoe
Thanks for the thoughts. And agreed on all, though, noone seems tobe able to tell me how I would get a council to install on-street (I asked Source London and got a nothing answer)
However – good news. been into dealer today to sign paperwork and and EVSE cable is now available for the princely sum of £495. He is checking delivery time and charging time, but, my parking space at work has a s-pin plug and I am here 12 hrs a day and frequently leave the car overnight. Could kill 2 birds with one stone.
Additionally, the battery hire has been expanded to include a 750 miles per quarter (3k annum) limit, tiered over 1 2 and 3 years with the cheapest level (3yrs) beinbg £45. I did ask what happens if you terminate early and the answer is you would have to pay the remeining contract ter,. So 1 year it is. At least offers more flexibility for low mileage commuters.
In reply to: Zoe Insurance
Glad I spotted this. I have currently simply arranged to trasfer my existing insurance, with Aviva, to a Zoe. However I gave the insured value as £14500.00 Because that’s the invoice price. It makes sense to insure for the RRP of the car, however, in a writeoff scenario, I would expect a govt discount to apply to a replacement. So cost to the insurer would be £14,500. I’ll think on – rather be over than under insured and insuring a sum circa 20k should allow for the battery too.
I will call Aviva again and revert.
Topic: Hitting three figures
I took all the kids for a jaunt around Aberdeenshire today. It was colder than I had hoped (started around 7C, got up to 13C briefly, then down to 3C on the way home), so I chickened out on my plannd 107 mile route visiting 7 castles and instead did 6 castles with a brief detour for dinner. We returned home having completed 101.2 miles and with 1% battery charge remaining. As I pulled up to the charger a message saying “Limited Performance” appeared on the dashboard, the first time I had seen that. I wonder how much further you can go when that appears? Anyone pushed their luck?
I had every confidence we would get back, but the kids were having great fun debating the issue and keeping track of the range-o-meter vs satnav. Two of them were desperately hoping we would run out of energy so that they could stay up late waiting for a rescue truck!
In reply to: Headlights
Ho yes LEDS are said to be 5x more efficient compared to Halogen so every little helps when it comes to best traction battery range.
In reply to: Trevor's ZOE Intens
It’s mostly the recuperation.
I noticed in the cold weather recuperation power from 3 kW to seldomly 7 kW. Renault protects the leased battery very well in the cold (it’s their money).
Now with 15 degrees celsius I have 22 kW recup even when fully charged from the first mile and 43 kW when SoC is down to 80-something percent.
Yesterday I was driving around in Stuttgart – a city that has is built on a lot of hills and driving up and down I lost some 5 km of range on a 20 km stretch…amazing.
Regards
UmbiIn reply to: I Knew…and They Knew…
The utilities are already fighting back in parts of the US, asking for high monthly connection fees for those with solar whose net usage is close to zero. Long term, though, it’s counter productive – once you have good home battery storage people will simply choose to go off-grid.
In reply to: I Knew…and They Knew…
I know that they know that he doesn’t know that they control electricity like they control petrochemicals!! :/
Electricity just looks cheaper – at the moment….
The real game-changer is affordable, reliable 10kW domestic solar arrays, in combination with the future prospect of battery storage (reused sub-80% health EV modules?). It does not have to be universally adopted, just a good percentage of folks even thinking about it will prompt the electricity companies to try to keep their prices low, because once folks start debating taking on solar panels the last thing the electricity companies should think of doing is putting their prices up.
This will kick up to petrol too. This is because once folks start thinking they can now use this cheap electricity to run EVs, the petro companies will want to keep their fuel prices keen. Anyone on the fence on getting an EV will be ‘pushed’ if the petrol prices go up.
This happened with the fuel crises of the past – in America big 8 mpg cars were being dumped en masse in preference to the small lightweight Japanese and European cars of the 70s. OPEC decides to drop their prices. Some even say that the introduction of hybrid cars, and CARB regulations in general, are a means to try to garner some influence on OPEC. Push forward on the ‘incentivise EVs’ lever and you lower the price, pull back on it and you can expect the prices to rise. So far so good, seems to have stablised the petrol prices of late so why bother promoting EVs more!? – the whole thing might backfire and people actually start buying these strange things!!
