40 miles/day means that you’ll be doing about 10,000 miles/year, so you’ll need more than the minimum battery lease.

I advise against 17″ wheels. The loss of range is the main factor, and others have reported that the tyres are more easily damaged. The Zoe is not a sports car, so there’s no handling advantage of lower profile tyres.

Hi. Yes, I have a Zoe Intens and the reflection is annoying in sunshine but I cut that to a fraction with polarised sun glasses as has been suggested by Carlos and then find what little reflection is left is in no way intrusive.
Continue to delight in the car. Still would like a spare wheel slung under the boot but accept that very few manufacturers do that these days. However, will go for a spare to keep at home (most punctures reveal themselves when you get up of a morning rather than on the move); and buy myself a jack if I can find where to safely put it when changing a wheel.
Had a Modus before, which I really liked for its minimalist design, and miss the option to move the rear seat backwards or forwards as needs be. Perhaps they couldn’t do that on the Zoe because of the battery pack beneath though?
Richard

Seems a little crazy that after paying nearly £20,000 over 3 years for a Zoe,we have to faff about trying to undo the Renault “Designers “silly work.I read that he or she was trying to mimic a wind turbine blade as a dash top!,and maybe that wouldn’t look right if it were black.
Recently I borrowed another Zoe from the dealership to prove that three of the seven chargers(EBG) in the area,were causing “Battery charging impossible to appear on the dash, (as discussed on the Forum).I left a black covering on the dash top of the demo Zoe, and they sold the car with my covering!.Should I raise an invoice to Renault for solving the reflection on their Zoe?

lol yes its a good idea to wait as many standards are coming out

http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2014/march/a-battery-that-breathes-could-power-next-gen-electric-vehicles.html

The metal air batteries vs the flow batteries seem like a promising continuation, it might even be adapted for home use. I think by 2017 its likely we might see something, so yes I am waiting too… though I might mess around with a very potable battery for camping purposes…

Oh, well..

A tender decreases range (in our ICE a large tender doubles the consumption, this small tender may go with an increase of about 30-40%). So the first 3 or 4 kW of electrical power of this tender is just to reach the level without the tender.

A battery in a tender is a safety risk

A ICE with a generator kill my green idea of electromobility and has to have more than 10 kW, ever seen, what stuff in this sizes costs (>3000 Euro)? You’re better off when Renault sells a larger battery.

A Zoe is not allowed to pull a tender. 10 kW of electrical power can not be transferred via a standard electrical tender coupling.

When charging now, the car must be immobilized (cause the charger is the motor control unit itself), so you will have to modify the car massively both mechanical and eletrical.

This is a solution to a problem that does not exist when more fast charge points are available

My 2 pence

Regards
Umbi

Guess you’re stuffed!

If you do everything right, the new purchaser knows the score and RCI know who’se buying the car, if he fails to sign up you carry on paying battery rental on his car. Similarly if he is rejected by RCI. I wonder what happens if you sell it to the motor trade and they don’t know what to do?

nice links but again I think they are lead acid batteries, longevity is important and so is safety. I was looking for different battery chemistry and think sodium has a better prospect.
http://triblive.com/business/headlines/3032248-74/aquion-energy-batteries#axzz2MK8wAAyy
http://www.aquionenergy.com/energy-storage-technology
While lithium might be just right for a small portable solution ( for camping )
However I am waiting for prices to fall, as the going rate for batteries is still high or the price per
Kilowatt storage. We’ll just have to see in a few years…