Exterior, day. Suburbs north of Paris, Ceram, the largest test center where many manufacturers are running the test more or less secret of their cars. Renault makes us try to track the Zoe, the fourth of its next electric car production after Kangoo electric Fluence and small Twizy. I told my daughter that I was going to try a car as she is called, then the child (5 years) expects a lot, I as well.
She is there in its white livery concept for an exhibition. And in fact it is just that machine there, what we saw in Paris in 2010. The size it is clear that there is hidden under the new Clio. He's not saying no, but we know that does not develop a shell for a few cars and, as this is a concept, the share in the final draft with the utilitarian seems the most logical, especially since the shape of the front will be that of next car.
The doors open with a condenser, just touch the contacts. Inside the look is sensational, the seats are to design, elegant in black and blue. But do not expect to see the car in testing, the cost would be prohibitive. Are accepted on a particular concept inconceivable on a production car: the windshield is so polycarbonate and distorts images, material common to the beautiful glass roof which makes the car very light.
Bello also the steering wheel slightly oval and also the technological shift lever (so to speak, because Zoe has a direct-drive motor-wheel) just move it very little because of the visible LED marker lights forward, reverse, stop. Well in the car. Sale with us the tester who loves his car and keeps an eye on us.
Attention to acceleration, not tight corners, but most attention to the patches of damp (in Milan it was raining, so here's a sun) because with slick nicest salon you go away like the soap. Do not ever touch that we just destroy a car by several hundred thousand euro. Squeaks a lot, great visibility.
By Zoe will be nice to get around the city in silence. Here not so, since the engine (not the final one) is not mocked, and I felt his strong buzz. The batteries are not even definitive ones: here no lithium, but Ni-Mh, for more with the limited autonomy to 50% as possible since the control unit has only been adapted.
But the production version will be Pack for 160 km and a power of 60 kW, enough for pretty good performance. The mechanics of the Fluence will be in practice but with less weight will be much stronger. Let's try to speed up but decided collude makes a face contorted and invites us to slow down peremptorily: says he is not sure of the resistance to lateral loads of wheel bolts.
All we need is to lose them, slow down immediately. Ultimately we evaluate solutions more style than mechanical, but it is enough to say that the car is: a great choice for four people, with a trunk that eye should be between 300 and 350 liters capacity. Finished, go down. Now let's go back to places, to enjoy the comfort of the seats (see above) and the reasonable habitability provided that those who are not fully retract the front seat.
The high driving position makes good visibility, but even so the sound is altogether little and makes you almost hear the birds in the trees of the park. No news about this. However, we can borrow the experience of Renault on the other electrical components on the Fluence. Cost € 20,000 plus € 76 per month to lease the batteries.
Here, the car may cost less, but the batteries are the same. Figures a bit 'high, but do the pioneer also has a cost. The economy of scale should do the rest in the coming years. 
She is there in its white livery concept for an exhibition. And in fact it is just that machine there, what we saw in Paris in 2010. The size it is clear that there is hidden under the new Clio. He's not saying no, but we know that does not develop a shell for a few cars and, as this is a concept, the share in the final draft with the utilitarian seems the most logical, especially since the shape of the front will be that of next car.
The doors open with a condenser, just touch the contacts. Inside the look is sensational, the seats are to design, elegant in black and blue. But do not expect to see the car in testing, the cost would be prohibitive. Are accepted on a particular concept inconceivable on a production car: the windshield is so polycarbonate and distorts images, material common to the beautiful glass roof which makes the car very light.
Bello also the steering wheel slightly oval and also the technological shift lever (so to speak, because Zoe has a direct-drive motor-wheel) just move it very little because of the visible LED marker lights forward, reverse, stop. Well in the car. Sale with us the tester who loves his car and keeps an eye on us.
Attention to acceleration, not tight corners, but most attention to the patches of damp (in Milan it was raining, so here's a sun) because with slick nicest salon you go away like the soap. Do not ever touch that we just destroy a car by several hundred thousand euro. Squeaks a lot, great visibility.
By Zoe will be nice to get around the city in silence. Here not so, since the engine (not the final one) is not mocked, and I felt his strong buzz. The batteries are not even definitive ones: here no lithium, but Ni-Mh, for more with the limited autonomy to 50% as possible since the control unit has only been adapted.
But the production version will be Pack for 160 km and a power of 60 kW, enough for pretty good performance. The mechanics of the Fluence will be in practice but with less weight will be much stronger. Let's try to speed up but decided collude makes a face contorted and invites us to slow down peremptorily: says he is not sure of the resistance to lateral loads of wheel bolts.
All we need is to lose them, slow down immediately. Ultimately we evaluate solutions more style than mechanical, but it is enough to say that the car is: a great choice for four people, with a trunk that eye should be between 300 and 350 liters capacity. Finished, go down. Now let's go back to places, to enjoy the comfort of the seats (see above) and the reasonable habitability provided that those who are not fully retract the front seat.
The high driving position makes good visibility, but even so the sound is altogether little and makes you almost hear the birds in the trees of the park. No news about this. However, we can borrow the experience of Renault on the other electrical components on the Fluence. Cost € 20,000 plus € 76 per month to lease the batteries.
Here, the car may cost less, but the batteries are the same. Figures a bit 'high, but do the pioneer also has a cost. The economy of scale should do the rest in the coming years.
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