Drive the R 240 since August 2016. In summer it will be replaced by an E-Golf. Time for a small conclusion after 70,000 km. Unscheduled workshop stays: A single one a week ago. Reason: replacement of the coupling bar at the front right and replace the brake lamp at the rear right. Cost approx. 152 €. Autohaus REHAG in Recklinghausen. Was very satisfied with the service and communication. Otherwise, driving easily – even with the small 23.3 kW battery. Only a few times with a battery. t came from less than 6% to a working charging station. Otherwise I charged again and again before. Sometimes it was also a “load tick”. The most violent was a situation at a charging station of a penny market. Didn’t work the first time. So plugs out again and try again. After the 2nd unsuccessful attempt the error message appeared that the battery could not be charged any more. Then of course I got a shock and in the first mo I didn’t think of anything better than to call the salesman at Renault, who drove a Zoe himself for three years. It gave me the tip to stop the car, drink a coffee and return after about 15 minutes. The error message was then gone. At the next approaching charging station it worked completely smoothly. In addition, fortunately, I only rarely experienced that a charging station did not load and I still had another charging station. The “doofy driving noise” up to 30 km/h can fortunately be turned off at the push of a button. It has already become an automatic for me to do this immediately after the start. Find that an electric car can be quiet and you simply as a driver also have to make sure that no pedestrian in front of a car runs , ,, The seats in the rear are only suitable for short distances, the footroom is unfortunately only little deep and the knees are almost always under the chin …. But it is on In any case, a 5-seater, if the “popos” are not too wide … 🙂 The longest route I used to drive was from Recklinghausen to Lübeck and back in one day. All about 100 – 130 km load a good hour … that was already very time consuming, because the pure driving time incl. shop was approx. 17 hours for good 800 km. I did something so extreme only once. Usually the Zoe is used in the radius of approx. 100 km. With a very smooth driving method we were able to favourable weather conditions even 180 km on a country road and still had 23% left in the battery. In winter with heavy headwinds it was only about 80 km on a mountain highway, until I had to go back to a charging station. Everything else in range moved in between. With distances of 200 – 250 km you should plan one to one and a half hour charging time – depending on the weather. If the battery is full and you enter a route with approx. 120 km distance, shows the Planner, that the destination is not achievable. But is it very well if you drive accordingly. Therefore the question, whether the system should look for a charging station, simply answer “no” and start driving. This question can still occur one time or another during the ride. Simply answer “no” again and think that the system does not know better. Fortunately, the driver knows more than the system …. 🙂 The first 50% battery capaz At some point, the remaining range is so large that the system has also understood it and the color changes from red to orange over the remaining kilometer display of the Navi and finally disappears. If you use the ECO mode and have set the cruise control at 110 km/h, for example, steeper mountains on the motorway will probably only go up at 91 km/h. In the plain it is about between 94 and 97 km/h. It can also be more than 105 km/h. With such a driving mode are almost always between 100 and 150 km in it! In summer I mostly managed with 13 kW/100 km as average consumption. In winter with 16 – 19 kW/100 km. Of course you can always drive on the train with 140 km/h according to Tacho. However, the consumption is then also fast at approx. 30 kW/100 km. Accordingly, the battery empties quickly. At 70,000 km the Zoe has about 700 – 1,000 charging processes Most of them with 11 kW/h at home. In addition, often with 22 kW/h and only rarely with the Schuko plug. The battery is always charged overnight at home. If it is cold, the battery has the worst if “only” 97% capacity in the morning. Usually however, mostly 100%. Therefore, you do not have to worry about a noticeable power loss of the battery. Who deals nowadays with the purchase of a used Zoe with small battery, can a quite easily for relatively small money It can be charged in many places (supermarkets such as Aldi, Lidl, Rewe, Obi, etc.) with 22 kW/h. Compared to most other BEVs in this price range, this is a big advantage.