Let´s start with a short video explaining  the advantages of going electric 😉

4,79€/100km week42,2023@30.650km

In week 42 my ZOE had it´s third birthday. I got it on oct´19th,2020.

So far it was charged with 5353kWh of electricity and was driven a distance of 30650km, making it 17.4kWh/100km, included charging losses.

At oct. 10th the ZOE had its first major technical inspection (HU, formerly TÜV) and servicing. It costed me 370,60€ 19%VAt incl. at an officiacal Renault garage. Besides the HU (91€) and the proscribed checks like a brake test (9,90€) the only renewed/replaced hardware were a clean-air-filter and a pollen filter (53,68€). No motor oil and filter, no spark plugs and all those costy little parts a fossile combuster requires.

Labor added up to 143€ at a rate of 120€/h. As a side note, the garage only asks for 100€/h for combuster cars ... why is almost identical inspection work up by 20% for BEVs??

Anyway, due to lower parts effort and less time required, the inspection cost is almost half of what I would´ve paid for my former cars.

The Battery´s State of Health (SOH) is said to be ~92%, nothing to worry about.

Unfortunately my little ELM device that allowed me to read out alot of technical parameters with the Canze App by my own doesn´t work any more apart from a few very basic parameters.

Maybe one of the cars updates is responsible. I wouldn´t wonder if renault doesn´t want You to know in detail what´s going on in Your car, resp. battery.

Speaking of Renault ... Since two of my ´contracts´ with Renault online services ran out after 3 years, the myRenault app informed me and offered renewals over their online store.

Guess what .... nothing works ... missing infos in the app ... app stalls with an error message .... connection via pc also impossible ... error messages everywhere. But loads of junk i.e. marketing BS on the website .... missing on useful infos and facts. Guess i need to go to the garage and complain and have them update what should be updated. I think they could or should have informed me and solved the probs when doing the inspection in first place. Don´t they know how crappy the online service of Renault is? So far Renault and ´online´ sucks.

4,98€/100km week41,2022@18.650km

In the upcoming week 42 my ZOE has it´s second birthday. I got it on oct´19th,2020.

So far it was charged with 3339kWh of electricity and was driven a distance of 18647km, making it 17.9kWh/100km, included charging losses.

Got me an ELM-Tester together with the CanZE app.

The App says: Total Energy Consumption: 2786kWh, Total Energy by Rekuperation: 654kWh.

I read it that the charging losses total up to 553kWh, resp. 19.8%.

It also says that the netto-consumption without losses would be 14.9kWh/100km.

After theses figures 654kWh of rekuperated energy would translate to ~4380km gained free distance, almost 1/4 of the total!

5,05€/100km week18,2022@15.000km

I got my Zoe 1.5 years ago and have driven 15.000km by now. The Zoe consumed overall 2.774kWh of energy, making it 18.49kWh/100km. This figure includes all charging losses which add up to roundabout 15-20%. The Netto-consumption then calculates to ~16kWh. This is even lower than the specified 17.7kWh/100km WLTP consumption. But then ... I drive almost only on country roads.

Everything is working still fine and I´m enjoying every day of useage as I haven´t with any other car. There´s no way back to combustion engine cars.

5.00€/100km week2,2022@12.000km

After a minimum of 4.80€/100km and just below 18kWh/100km in early nov´21 at ~10.000km the consumption rose again due to the low winterish temperatures and winter tyres. Keeping in mind that the consumption values include the charging losses -while manufacturer values don´t- I´m quite happy to drive my ZOE so efficiently.

Fuel prices of Super10 on the other hand have established on a high niveau of ~1.80€/L.

5.00€/100km week41,2021@8667km

The consumption values over the last 2.000km and the average cost per 100km have dropped again. But since the first cold nights with temperatures close to the freezing point the OnBoard computer display starts showing values in the +13kWh/100km range again.

The minimum displayed value is 12.9kWh/100km .... strange, since it is quite easily possible to drive the ZOE with less consumption.

The charging losses established at around 3-4kWh, resulting a net consumption around 14-15kWh/100km.

The average prices for gasoline (Super) have risen steadily from last year october from ~1.50€/L to almost 1.70€/L. I even saw 1.75€/L for Super E10 and 1.85€/L for Super Plus the last days!

Needless to say that I´m quite happy to be going electric.

In week 42 my ZOE will have it´s first birthday and first regular inspection.

5.16€/100km week28,2021@6.666km

Most of the 4.000km were driven ove the colder period of the year.

Now this summer has been alot colder and alot more humid than the last couple of years.

I have now driven about 6.666km (as of date 15.07.2021) and the consumption of the ZOE dropped considerably down to below 15kWh/100km, translating into a range of slightly above 400km.

The consumption figure already includes the charge losses of app. 20%.

These charging losses are quite high, considering that almost everything else on a BEV has to be designed with efficiency in mind. Also hard to understand in that the combos of home photovoltaic DC-DC-inverters and LiFePo batteries easily reach about 5% better efficiency.

Still though the ZOE is not particularly bad in this field .... it seems that almost all BEVs have more or less around 20% charging losses.

Charging costs also dropped to 5.16€/100km (4.13€/100km reduced by 20% charging losses).

At the moment E10 gasoline costs ~1.65€/L.

5.55€/100km week11,2021@4.000km

The consumption values over the last 4.000km are taken from the electricity counter in my home.

They include the charge losses of the WallBox and Zoe´s internal charger. Values from the onboard computer read about 4.5kWh/100km lower as they are displayed excluded the charging losses.

The consumption figures from the manufacturers are specified without charger losses also.

Mostly the ZOE´s display reads between 14-18kWh depending on the weather conditions and between 18-22kWh from the electricity meter at home. Higher on cold winter days and lower when its warm. The consumption raises considerably below 9°C.

So far all charging took place at home at a rate of 0.286€/kWh (green current tariff).

This would hint for costs of ~4.30€/100km without losses.

My former Fiat Punto 1.4 consumed ~5.5L/100km, costing ~8.5€/100km.

The 5.5L/100km was already less than FIAT specified for the car ... I know how to drive efficiently  ;-)

Besides the ecological advantage the ZOE is considerably cheaper in fuel consumption also.

And while the prices for gasoline are rising steadily (~1,60€/L at the moment), I might even be able to cut down electricity cost in future with the installation of a PV-system on the roof of my home and other possibly other sources.

Picked up my ZOE week43,2020@0km