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Post by empowerrepower on Feb 4, 2018 22:47:39 GMT 11
Wow, how frustrating, and patronising towards the public. Is it worth contacting the head office, or the two dealerships actually selling them? Might be worth dropping a comment on their facebook page about there being public demand for these cars.
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Post by chuq on Feb 5, 2018 0:04:33 GMT 11
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Post by EVangelist on Feb 5, 2018 19:18:41 GMT 11
Yep. Challenge the dealer with that. They either contradict head office or apologise.
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Post by stewartm on Feb 7, 2018 20:49:35 GMT 11
Did challenge, they said the article was incorrect, Renault Australia will not be releasing the Zoe to individual private sales.
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Post by empowerrepower on Feb 13, 2018 19:48:27 GMT 11
I contacted Renault suggesting that they should open up the Zoe to retail sales, and got the reply below - sound promising.
Thanks for your enquiry on the EV products. We are currently working with our dealer network to commence both retail and fleet sales of the EV products. We have dealers being trained in groups over the next few months. I gather by your area code that you are based in QLD. We are working to appoint and train a Brisbane based dealer in mid to late 2018.
We should be able to confirm these details with you in a few weeks time.
Kind Regards,
Matthew Howe National Fleet Sales Manager
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Post by billyen on Feb 14, 2018 5:38:31 GMT 11
I contacted Renault suggesting that they should open up the Zoe to retail sales, and got the reply below - sound promising. Thanks for your enquiry on the EV products. We are currently working with our dealer network to commence both retail and fleet sales of the EV products. We have dealers being trained in groups over the next few months. I gather by your area code that you are based in QLD. We are working to appoint and train a Brisbane based dealer in mid to late 2018. We should be able to confirm these details with you in a few weeks time. Kind Regards, Matthew Howe National Fleet Sales Manager That’s silly. We just want to buy the car...we don’t need someone “trained” for 6 months to do it. what exactly are they going to be trained in?...give them reading material...a few you tube videos and they’ll be set in 3 hrs. the rest can be sorted through a hotline.
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Post by billyen on Feb 14, 2018 5:41:36 GMT 11
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Post by billyen on Feb 18, 2018 14:15:04 GMT 11
The Zoe is now up for sale on Carsales.com.au
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 9:26:41 GMT 11
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Post by jacky on Feb 20, 2018 7:35:33 GMT 11
Will Renault Australia do battery leasing like what they did in Europe?
I like the fact that Renault allows battery upgrade on older generations of Zoe. It will be an attractive offer if they have the battery lease programme so that customers can have a peace of mind on the battery and upgrade the battery when bigger batteries are available.
The charging network is a big issue for all EVs here. I hope Renault will work with Nissan, BMW, etc to built a EV charge network for long(er) distance travel.
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Post by pharmadave on Feb 20, 2018 9:34:04 GMT 11
Will Renault Australia do battery leasing like what they did in Europe? I like the fact that Renault allows battery upgrade on older generations of Zoe. It will be an attractive offer if they have the battery lease programme so that customers can have a peace of mind on the battery and upgrade the battery when bigger batteries are available. The charging network is a big issue for all EVs here. I hope Renault will work with Nissan, BMW, etc to built a EV charge network for long(er) distance travel. As far as I am aware, Renault is only doing outright sales of the Zoe here in Australia or various means of leasing of the vehicle as a whole. What I'm also interested in is the R110 motor Zoe which has just been announced in Europe, which equates to about 80KW motor similar to the Gen 1 Leaf. That should give the Zoe some more grunt. electrek.co/2018/02/19/renault-upgrades-zoe-powerful-electric-motor/
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Post by alison on Feb 23, 2018 9:07:08 GMT 11
Great to see it, but $52k ! Still loving my 2nd hand Leaf for less than half that that we have now owned for a year.
I'm not sure of everyone else's use case, but ~100kms hilly-area range for a small car is fine our our family. For longer trips we typically want a bigger car as we are lugging more stuff, >5 people, dogs, perhaps a trailer or even a caravan. We don't have Model X money so it's an ICE for now.
I'd love a new small EV to be available today for say $25-30k with city-car range. It could be every family's second car, replacing their Mazda 3 or similar for the station and shopping runs around the city where ICEs are least efficient. Surely that's doable. Maybe make it modular so people could swap their small battery out for a bigger one down the track if they feel the need, but that's just a nice to have.
If those shopping centres and stations had chargers, there's your range doubled right there with no extra battery to pay for upfront or lug around.
Car manufacturers are now competing on range, when most people will charge these 300km+ cars nightly from say 70% back to 100% anyway. It feels like the early days of digital cameras where every brand was obsessed with more megapixels, even if that was largely irrelevant to most people's usage - it's solving the (mostly) imaginary range anxiety vs. solving the (mostly) irrelevant resolution anxiety in cameras.
All that said, it's great to see we can buy some form of EV in the almost-affordable category again.
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Post by rusdy on Feb 23, 2018 17:31:43 GMT 11
...It feels like the early days of digital cameras where every brand was obsessed with more megapixels, even if that was largely irrelevant to most people's usage... Great analogy. However, 'point and shoot' camera is now totally out of the market and replaced by smart phones. In the future, my Crystal ball predicts long range city cars (like zoe, analogous to the pixel war) will be replaced by driverless taxi (no point owning city cars), and the rich owns luxury long range cars (the like of people owning DSLR for personal use).
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Post by chuq on Feb 24, 2018 23:34:08 GMT 11
In case the ad disappears/updates in the future.. for posterity!
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