Any new Renault Zoe owners out there?
Discussion
romeogolf said:
Try this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zeddy/id1451295003
I may or may not live with the guy who made it specifically because the Renault app is such rubbish...
Does the app work on the Zoe50 ? I thought it was only for the earlier models. If it does can you ask Matt if he'll be bringing it out fr Android ? I may or may not live with the guy who made it specifically because the Renault app is such rubbish...
dapprman said:
romeogolf said:
Try this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zeddy/id1451295003
I may or may not live with the guy who made it specifically because the Renault app is such rubbish...
Does the app work on the Zoe50 ? I thought it was only for the earlier models. If it does can you ask Matt if he'll be bringing it out fr Android ? I may or may not live with the guy who made it specifically because the Renault app is such rubbish...
Sadly he is an iOS-only developer so there won't be an Android version.
jjwilde said:
DuncanM23 said:
The app should show you state of charge, service history and stuff, and also allow you to do preconditioning. It's really nice to sit in the office, check the car's charge and then turn the heater on so that it's toasty when you get in for the drive home. Mine's just turned 3, so I've lost access - I'm not sure if I want to pay the money to renew it, but given it's free for the first 3 years you might as well see if you can get it working.
Oh wow, they take away functionality from the car after 3 years? Well that's .... the future of cars?And yeah, all the internet connected stuff is going to be an "ongoing revenue stream" for car manufacturers - at least with this thing it's not actually the car that's losing functionality, just the app.
I pay slightly more for the same spec which was delivered in the middle of November. The app pre-heat works as it should but it doesn't have the AEB radar.
The intermitent windscreen wiper function doesn't work which is infuriating in the current weather and I can't turn off the traffic information woman (I'm sure both these issues would be cured by a dealer firmwear update when I get chance?) but apart from that as a white goods car for doing an 8 mile each way commute it's better than I thought it would be.
The intermitent windscreen wiper function doesn't work which is infuriating in the current weather and I can't turn off the traffic information woman (I'm sure both these issues would be cured by a dealer firmwear update when I get chance?) but apart from that as a white goods car for doing an 8 mile each way commute it's better than I thought it would be.
Im very interested in this topic too and test drove a new ZOE top spec last night. I come from a range of fast cars and variety of other vehicles and I have to say I was very impressed. We had the old ZOEs at work and they were rubbish but the new one was very impressive.
I too have a salary sacrifice offer and could get one all in for £215/month lease which seems like a no brainer!
I need to test drive a few others because the MG5 looks seriously tempting too given it has similar range and is an estate care which is more family friendly although this would be a second car as we have a dirty diesel family car.
I too have a salary sacrifice offer and could get one all in for £215/month lease which seems like a no brainer!
I need to test drive a few others because the MG5 looks seriously tempting too given it has similar range and is an estate care which is more family friendly although this would be a second car as we have a dirty diesel family car.
Despite the firmware upgrade pre-con still does not work for me, though for many it did fix the issue and all newly built cars don't have this problem (and also have AEB). Renault technical support can be a bit like pulling hens teeth, but aside from that everything else works and it's done more than expected.
I got it as a round town car but have been doing long journeys in it as well. The fist 200 mile each way trip (travelling up mid week, back on a Saturday) was just to see what the EV life experience is really like (i.e. where only car and with the need to plan charges along the way). Car has proven to be comfortable doing 60-65 on the motorway and has plenty of grunt for overtaking (135 motor).
First couple of trips were in the late summer with 18-20 degree temp and aircon on - based on the mileage done and the amount of juice put in to the car, with four 200 mile runs I was getting a legitimate 240-245 mile range. Of course then there were a few with the temp at 8-10 degrees and it raining the whole way, range dropped to ~190. Couple of trips with it dry but that lower temp and I was getting ~190-200 mile range.
Pre-con will be sorted eventually, it's just annoying till then (not that I've ever had it in a car before) and the missing in car logging information has been confirmed as part of a dealer firmware upgrade (was accidentally applied to one car so we've seen it exists).
One interesting thing is with rapid charging. It peaks around 45kWh, but only if you start with under ~40% capacity, else it seems to be closer to 38-40, however it also seems to maintain that rate till my battery is over 90% full, not 80%.
I had more problems with the free BP Chargemaster home charging unit, but again just frustration as I had issues with it communicating back to base so could not check my logs - been replaced twice, last time with a Vodafone sim unit rather than an O2 one - apparently they've been having signal issues. Seems to work to me but they still believe there might be a problem. Oh also it comes with a VMCU set up by your fuse box, not an earthing rod - problem for me is it is in doors and buzzes loudly, got them back in as it became louder after the last unit swap. Still it charges no problems and scheduling is controlled by the car.
I got it as a round town car but have been doing long journeys in it as well. The fist 200 mile each way trip (travelling up mid week, back on a Saturday) was just to see what the EV life experience is really like (i.e. where only car and with the need to plan charges along the way). Car has proven to be comfortable doing 60-65 on the motorway and has plenty of grunt for overtaking (135 motor).
First couple of trips were in the late summer with 18-20 degree temp and aircon on - based on the mileage done and the amount of juice put in to the car, with four 200 mile runs I was getting a legitimate 240-245 mile range. Of course then there were a few with the temp at 8-10 degrees and it raining the whole way, range dropped to ~190. Couple of trips with it dry but that lower temp and I was getting ~190-200 mile range.
Pre-con will be sorted eventually, it's just annoying till then (not that I've ever had it in a car before) and the missing in car logging information has been confirmed as part of a dealer firmware upgrade (was accidentally applied to one car so we've seen it exists).
One interesting thing is with rapid charging. It peaks around 45kWh, but only if you start with under ~40% capacity, else it seems to be closer to 38-40, however it also seems to maintain that rate till my battery is over 90% full, not 80%.
I had more problems with the free BP Chargemaster home charging unit, but again just frustration as I had issues with it communicating back to base so could not check my logs - been replaced twice, last time with a Vodafone sim unit rather than an O2 one - apparently they've been having signal issues. Seems to work to me but they still believe there might be a problem. Oh also it comes with a VMCU set up by your fuse box, not an earthing rod - problem for me is it is in doors and buzzes loudly, got them back in as it became louder after the last unit swap. Still it charges no problems and scheduling is controlled by the car.
I have one for my wife through Onto via my limited company which works out at £210 per month net. It's a great little runaround but the rapid charging curve is a bit disappointing.
https://support.fastned.nl/hc/en-gb/articles/36003...
https://support.fastned.nl/hc/en-gb/articles/36003...
MaxFromage said:
I have one for my wife through Onto via my limited company which works out at £210 per month net. It's a great little runaround but the rapid charging curve is a bit disappointing.
https://support.fastned.nl/hc/en-gb/articles/36003...
That charge curve looks nothing like what Bjorn gets in the real world:https://support.fastned.nl/hc/en-gb/articles/36003...
50% 45kW
60% 41kW
70% 35kW
80% 28kW
The only thing is I found the fuller the battery when you start the charge the lower the peak rate you get, though it still holds it. Discovered the hard way that at ~45-50% it takes a similar time to charge to 99% or 100% as from ~20% \00/ (it can take 10 minutes for that last percent - forums say due to balancing and conditioning).
I've just arranged a lease on one of these, an i Iconic R135. No fast charging option but I should only need to home charge for my usage so not expecting an issues.
It's a sensible car so I can justify keeping the 996 which has cost a fortune since I got it in July, but I'm excited to see what EVs are like to drive and live with.
It's a sensible car so I can justify keeping the 996 which has cost a fortune since I got it in July, but I'm excited to see what EVs are like to drive and live with.
Mine was delivered on Tuesday, as a means of a/b road and city transport first impressions are excellent.
The car charger was installed last week too so it all worked out pretty well, with one minor annoyance during the installation of the charger on the garage wall. The PodPoint fitter found that the feed from our consumer unit to the breaker box in the garage is on 4mm.sq. Which means he has had to down rate the charger to 4.8kW. The previous owners of the house had a Leaf, and the fitter made a big thing that it hadn’t been done properly before because the charger was wired straight into the garage breaker box, not via a separate RCD and therefore there would be interference between the car and anything on the garage breaker circuits, such as the tumble trier.
We are getting interference from the car through microwave when it is in use while the car is charging. Microwave is in the house though, so have an email out to PodPoint to confirm everything is as it should be. Does anyone else have similar?
There's a couple of minor irritation about the controls of the car, principally no physical volume knob, and that the outside temperature gauge is on the main menu page of the infotainment, not on the dash. It is remarkable though that these foibles are are to do with the bits that are common with it's ICE engined equivalent, and shows just how useable and normal this EV feels as a car. It is perhaps worth noting that I didn't test drive one before (it was a cheap lease deal so I jumped on it), have never driven an EV/PHEV/hybrid before, and have only briefly been a passenger in one (a Kia e-Niro uber).
I've just done my second trip into London in it, and so far have average about 3.8mls/kWh over about 50miles of urban roads, and 95miles of dual carriageway and motorway with the cruise at 67mph. That should give me a range of 190miles which is plenty.
The car charger was installed last week too so it all worked out pretty well, with one minor annoyance during the installation of the charger on the garage wall. The PodPoint fitter found that the feed from our consumer unit to the breaker box in the garage is on 4mm.sq. Which means he has had to down rate the charger to 4.8kW. The previous owners of the house had a Leaf, and the fitter made a big thing that it hadn’t been done properly before because the charger was wired straight into the garage breaker box, not via a separate RCD and therefore there would be interference between the car and anything on the garage breaker circuits, such as the tumble trier.
We are getting interference from the car through microwave when it is in use while the car is charging. Microwave is in the house though, so have an email out to PodPoint to confirm everything is as it should be. Does anyone else have similar?
There's a couple of minor irritation about the controls of the car, principally no physical volume knob, and that the outside temperature gauge is on the main menu page of the infotainment, not on the dash. It is remarkable though that these foibles are are to do with the bits that are common with it's ICE engined equivalent, and shows just how useable and normal this EV feels as a car. It is perhaps worth noting that I didn't test drive one before (it was a cheap lease deal so I jumped on it), have never driven an EV/PHEV/hybrid before, and have only briefly been a passenger in one (a Kia e-Niro uber).
I've just done my second trip into London in it, and so far have average about 3.8mls/kWh over about 50miles of urban roads, and 95miles of dual carriageway and motorway with the cruise at 67mph. That should give me a range of 190miles which is plenty.
Edited by HughG on Friday 26th February 07:11
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