Monday, April 4, 2011

Renault Zoe, part of the countdown

The 2012 is approaching and after a lengthy press release details about technical specifications, Renault continues to spread some new pictures and specifications on lawsuits charging its Zoe Preview, city car "full" power that makes the range of Renault branded vehicles clean and includes among others the Fluence sedan, the Kangoo minivan and the ultra-compact 2-seater Twity.

Previewed at the Paris Motor Show Renault Zoe is able to travel about 160 km (combined cycle) in complete autonomy. Three modes of charge provided by the manufacturer. Through a standard domestic supply, but also parking and service areas that will recharge the batteries of the car in about 6-8 hours (counting the 3 hours and a half younger sister Twity), a second type of rapid price pedestals placed special at supermarkets or gas stations (in this case takes 30 minutes), and a third way that involves the exchange - in a estimated time of 3 minutes - the battery with a fully operational ready to be mounted on the car.

At the time, tells Renault, workshops where you can replace the battery pack will be available in Israel and Denmark in collaboration with the Better Place brand. As reported also in the commercial phase of launch there will be about 5 thousand charging points in France, 1500 of which consist of columns for the fast charge.

The goal is to expand the supply infrastructure every year aiming for 75 thousand points by 2015, 15 thousand of them quick. According to estimates by the French company, in anticipation of the commitment of many European governments on the front of the cars clean through dedicated funds and incentives - see the projects "Plugged-in Places" in Britain, "Mobi-E" in Portugal, "Movel 'in Spain - by 2012 will already be active in Europe about 50 thousand charging stations.

4086 mm long, 1788 wide and 1540 mm high, the Preview Zoe weighs 1,392 kg. The electrical motor is just able to deliver a power of 60 kW or about 80 horsepower with a maximum torque Nm di222 The maximum speed is 135 km / h and acceleration from 0 to 100 km / h in 8.1 seconds. Latest notes that although the price has not been notified officially expected to remain below 20 thousand euro (100 euro more for the batteries owned by Renault).

A threshold could decline further in view of subsidies and incentives for electric vehicles.

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