{"id":109904,"date":"2024-03-30T07:01:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T06:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-news\/new-cars\/saying-goodbye-pioneering-renault-zoe"},"modified":"2024-03-30T07:01:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T06:01:45","slug":"gone-too-soon-final-drive-in-the-pioneering-renault-zoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/30\/gone-too-soon-final-drive-in-the-pioneering-renault-zoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone too soon? Final drive in the pioneering Renault Zoe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Renault<\/a><\/p>\n

\n After 12 years in production, the Zoe still looks fresh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Renault’s seminal EV hatchback ends production today. Here’s why we’ll miss it<\/p>\n

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Cars die quietly.\u00a0Their \u2018look\u2019 lasts six or seven years with mid-life changes, while their underbits generally go twice as long because they\u2019re by far the most expensive components to change.<\/p>\n

Sales typically peak a couple of years before the end, and by the time the Grim Reaper arrives, the manufacturing company has long stopped talking about the outgoing model and is well down the road with noise about its replacement.<\/p>\n

So it is with the Zoe, Renault<\/a>\u2019s pioneering volume electric car<\/a>. Production officially ceased on 30 March 2024 (though in reality it stopped well before Christmas), with about 400,000 units sold across Europe.<\/p>\n

Renault has been publicising the Zoe<\/a>\u2019s replacement, officially called the Renault 5 E-Tech, since 2021 when it appeared as a concept to herald the all-change \u2018Renaulution\u2019 plan devised by its newly arrived CEO, Luca de Meo. We now know that closely related all-electric Renault 4<\/a> and Twingo<\/a> models are waiting in the wings.<\/p>\n

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Yet in some ways, the Zoe, for all its rule-busting 12 years in production, doesn\u2019t warrant replacement nearly as urgently as most outgoing models do. Several rounds of minor styling tweaks have maintained a modern look; they have almost been too successful. The Clio<\/a>-related interior package remains generous in modern terms. And the Zoe is still one of the lighter and more compact small EVs available on the market.<\/p>\n

True, that 1500kg kerb weight doesn\u2019t exactly make it a featherweight against outgoing petrol and diesel superminis (they weigh more like 1100-1200kg) but it\u2019s a clear tonne lighter than the EV behemoths much of Europe\u2019s motor industry has been encouraging us to buy.<\/p>\n

At more than twice the price, they\u2019re much more profitable to sell, even though for many they\u2019re too expensive, less agile and needlessly vast. And they leave room for the much-feared cheap Asian imports.<\/p>\n

Here, however, is where the logic ends and emotion steps in. I\u2019ve admired the Zoe ever since I first saw it as a concept in 2009, and especially after I started driving it three or four years later.<\/p>\n

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To me, the Zoe has been a pioneer in bringing simplicity and practicality to EV driving and ownership \u2013 and it has married these things to the unique design appeal Renault has brought to practically every one of its low-end, high-volume cars that I can remember.<\/p>\n

Those who cook up \u2018best EV\u2019 comparison tests \u2013 in other quarters than Autocar \u2013 have tended to treat the Zoe as an also-ran because it has lasted for so long. But as its demise loomed, I became convinced it needed a proper send-off, so I arranged to borrow one from Renault UK, which has put around 30,000 of them on Britain\u2019s roads and for a couple of years around 2015 made it the country\u2019s best-selling EV, despite the efforts of the British-built, all-electric Nissan Leaf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The car I borrowed was an R110, the numerals denoting the power in metric horsepower (actually 109bhp). It didn\u2019t have either the most powerful motor \u2013 that applies to the post-2019 R135 \u2013 or the biggest, 52kWh battery, but I soon discovered that such details hardly mattered for the use to which our household was to put the car.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The Zoe taught us a family lesson about EVs that I believe will last the next three to five years. For people like us, who live in a semi-rural situation 100 miles from London but have strong connections there, the best EV is undoubtedly a compact runabout.<\/p>\n

It can handle 90% of our driving \u2013 especially if you have a 7kW wall charger \u2013 but for the time being, you need a backstop ICE car. Said petrol-burner might do only 3000 miles a year, but its costs can be offset by savings on your home-charged EV and it offers protection against the lingering uncertainties and delays of EV charging in places you don\u2019t know. Which remain real.<\/p>\n

As many EV early adopters will tell you, electric cars tend to be taken into the family as a second car, and pretty soon become the first.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what happened with our Zoe. It zipped back and forth to the station and local shops. It delivered people and picked them up. It went once to the local recycling centre with a bumper load of post-Christmas cardboard. It easily fitted the nearest supermarket car park. With zero fuss, it carried out the 50- to 70-mile out-and-back journeys across the Cotswolds that are part of life for me and my family.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Our wall charger and the Zoe\u2019s four miles per kWh (roughly double that of my Audi SQ8 E-tron<\/a> long-term test car) made its costs seem negligible. And most of our motoring was of the zero-emissions variety.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more. Though the essential design has been in production 12 years, a recent Zoe feels entirely modern with its LED lights, automatic dipping, automatic wipers, automatic locking and thoroughly decent phone-connected audio and nav systems.<\/p>\n

Best of all, it\u2019s fun to drive. The ride is fairly soft and nicely damped in a way that brings faint hints of nostalgia to someone who drove a lot of blancmange-like everyman Renaults back in the day, but nowadays you can pitch your Zoe into roundabouts without either the body roll or the tyre-screeching understeer.<\/p>\n

As with other EVs, despite its modest peak power, there\u2019s surprising torque to slingshot you off the mark, without all of that clutch and gear-change nonsense. It\u2019s simple, clean, efficient, quick and quiet.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Cars leave my place all the time. Even if a car has a big price and a big name, you pretty soon become inured to any sense of loss. Sometimes you\u2019re secretly pleased to see a big-name car go, if you\u2019ve avoided kerbing the wheels and nobody\u2019s swiped it on your watch and bunged it in a container bound for Africa.<\/p>\n

But with the Zoe, we were all so sorry to see it go. We practically stood on the doorstep and waved it goodbye.<\/p>\n

As it rolled away down the street, I had this crazy thought: was it really too late to drop an \u201cAre you sure about this, Luca?\u201d email to CEO de Meo<\/a>, asking for a stay of execution for a Renault of rare excellence? It was nonsense, of course. It\u2019s years too late.<\/p>\n

Renault\u2019s detailed model succession plans have been in place for three years, maybe longer. But I still choose to think that having such a fleeting and cockeyed Zoe plan, even for a second, shows the mettle of the model.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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After 12 years in production, the Zoe still looks fresh<\/p>\n

Renault’s seminal EV hatchback ends production today. Here’s why we’ll miss it<\/p>\n

Cars die quietly.\u00a0Their \u2018look\u2019 lasts six or seven years with mid-life changes, while their underbits generally 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