I’ve driven Leafs, and SAIC vans but owned two Zoes - 22 and 50.
ZE50 on 17” with the wider tyres corners far better than the early ones and is good for annoying the young Corsa lads. Haha!
Serial ‘white’ car buyer.
Why change to a Born (arriving at the weekend)?
Three things really.
Zoes don’t allow heat/cooling when charging. Frozen in winter. We all got suckered in to pay for the optional CCS moving up from 43kW AC. But the CCS only goes at a max of 45kW. It’s slow.
- My Zoe broke down on a weekend while in Germany. It wouldn’t turn off correctly and lock itself. So as it sat it was insecure, ‘on’ and drained the 12V battery in an hour.
Initially I got round that by disconnecting - “no user serviceable parts” yeah…
Monday morning, Assistance booked us into the nearest EV place. Great family run garage. Diagnosed main switching relay, but not allowed to work on it. Have to go to another place - the relay lives in a compartment inside the traction battery holder.
Two days later we left the second place. They said HQ recommended a software update, not part replacement. Car drove great for the next then died completely.
And that was 13 weeks and two days ago. I got my Zoe back yesterday. Renault Assist couldn’t give a ***
Emotional.
Car drives great. But I’d done my homework on ID3 and Born. Been to 2 local dealers to see cars in the colours and figure out what might be available with cars coming in or cancelled orders. Had a test drive.
A friend who’d had 3 Zoes in his family changed to ID3. I’d looked round it and been out for a drive. Nice but a bit pipe and slippers.
So I drive out DSG in Morecambe who got the car fixed, stopped at MG place and looked at MG4. Nope. Far more toys in the Zoe.
Drove farther north homeward to Carlisle. White V2 Boost just in showroom.
I drive these EVs to pay for it…