Why do electric cars have to LOOK like electric cars?

Why do electric cars have to LOOK like electric cars?

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Butter Face

30,353 posts

161 months

Saturday 28th May 2016
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Valgar said:
The ZOE looks normal, shame about the forced battery hire that's barely cheaper than fuel, oh and they limit your miles.
Not true. You can buy one with a battery and do as you please.

Or you can hire a car and a battery and choose as many miles as you like.

zooky

190 posts

177 months

Saturday 28th May 2016
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WaferThinHam said:
It has a stupid name.
I think "Zoe" is short for "zero emissions". Quite clever imho.

Butter Face

30,353 posts

161 months

Saturday 28th May 2016
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zooky said:
WaferThinHam said:
It has a stupid name.
I think "Zoe" is short for "zero emissions". Quite clever imho.
Zero Operating Emissions.

I think that's right hehe

Valgar

850 posts

136 months

Saturday 28th May 2016
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Butter Face said:
Not true. You can buy one with a battery and do as you please.

Or you can hire a car and a battery and choose as many miles as you like.
Really? If you got any info i'd appreciate it, not seen anywhere you can just buy the battery

Edit: Just found it, costs £13k more?! or £8k after the grant

Edited by Valgar on Saturday 28th May 09:14

Butter Face

30,353 posts

161 months

Saturday 28th May 2016
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Valgar said:
Butter Face said:
Not true. You can buy one with a battery and do as you please.

Or you can hire a car and a battery and choose as many miles as you like.
Really? If you got any info i'd appreciate it, not seen anywhere you can just buy the battery
Well you can't just buy the battery, you can buy the car with a battery...

https://www.renault.co.uk/vehicles/new-vehicles/zo...

Click on Purchase options and Full Purchase. It's all in the brochure too.

Butter Face

30,353 posts

161 months

Saturday 28th May 2016
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Valgar said:
Butter Face said:
Not true. You can buy one with a battery and do as you please.

Or you can hire a car and a battery and choose as many miles as you like.
Really? If you got any info i'd appreciate it, not seen anywhere you can just buy the battery

Edit: Just found it, costs £13k more?! or £8k after the grant

Edited by Valgar on Saturday 28th May 09:14
Dynamqiue Nav is £20,545 for the full purchase or £15,545 for the hire model. £5k difference on list.

samj2014

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554 posts

113 months

Wednesday 1st June 2016
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Butter Face said:
A Mugen CRZ is what you desire. 197bhp supercharged 1.5.


And to answer the original question (although it's already been said) the Renault ZOE is what you need. Looks relatively normal.
It's a little bit too 'supermini' for me I think. If it was up to me I'd have a Golf or passat estate (or something along those lines)

Mr GrimNasty

8,172 posts

171 months

Wednesday 1st June 2016
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They should all look like the solar car out of Logan's Run if you ask me.

Alex_225

6,265 posts

202 months

Wednesday 1st June 2016
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It's a shame they don't make electric vehicles as cheap as the Renault Twizy but without looking like Stephen Hawking should wheel his way out of it when it parks up.

If they could build a £5k vehicle or even a quadricycle like the Twizy that looked cool even if it was made of plastic, I'd imagine it could be popular for people doing 5-10 miles commutes.

dlockhart

434 posts

173 months

Wednesday 1st June 2016
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Alex_225 said:
It's a shame they don't make electric vehicles as cheap as the Renault Twizy but without looking like Stephen Hawking should wheel his way out of it when it parks up.

If they could build a £5k vehicle or even a quadricycle like the Twizy that looked cool even if it was made of plastic, I'd imagine it could be popular for people doing 5-10 miles commutes.
The orginal G-Wizz was that and got taken off the roads because it was made of plastic with the impact protection of a wet envelope

nickofh

603 posts

119 months

Thursday 2nd June 2016
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I have had my Zoe for 2 months now. After nearly 6 months waiting.

The car is very cheap to own on PCP. I would not buy one outright as it's just to risky wondering how little it would be worth in a few years.

I used to have an 08 Impreza R as my daily , my commute is a 30 mile round trip and if you add up the cost of petrol, road tax, servicing and an mot they are almost paying for my monthly PCP. This is before you factor in deprecation too.

My monthly payment for battery and car is £180 for 9000 miles. Each trip to work and back if I charge at home is about 70 - 80 pence. It's still free to charge at a motorway services.

It's full of technology and equipment for the price and is plenty quick enough in town 0- 40 being surprisingly quick with instant torque and no gears. It's not our only car and probably wouldn't work as an only car. But if you accept it's limited range it's a great little car , with almost the same size boot as a golf and bigger than a focus.

essayer

9,084 posts

195 months

Thursday 2nd June 2016
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Plus remote preheat as well via the app! Handy on the cold mornings or late station arrivals smile