A regular 220V outlet EVSE will be finally available for Renault ZOE on March 4, 2014

It's never too late ...

Finally, in two days, ZOE owners should be able to purchase a portable EVSE to charge their ZOE wherever they want, at 10A or 14A on a dedicated Legrand Green'up reinforced 220V outlet

Renault Zoe ICEing a charge spot at the mall !

Renault Zoe ICEing the second charge spot at the mall last friday!

Parked and not plugged in, of course because Zoe can not plug into a regular 200V outlet
Everything about it already explained in this older post






When I came back, there was a DIY ? Kit Plugin Prius II plugged in ...

That reminded me of 2009, four years ago, when I had installed this Enginer PHEV Kit in mine ...



He signaled clearly that it is a pluggin car


A Cycle Analyst can be seen on the dashboard

Renault ZOE : Battery Pack Rental lowered to 49 EUR per month

Renault announced a new rental option of the ZOE battery pack at 49EUR for 5,000km on a 36 month contract


I think more people could soon switch to EV with the ZOE since the minimum monthly rental of 79EUR was maybe too high and they would anyways drive less per year than with a regular ICE car.

We went to see this new Fast Charging Station in Paris

After the opening of this new Fast Charging Station inside Paris on monday, I said we would go check it out, and we passed by this afternoon 

Behind the Tram is ...

this BP gas station with a Fast Charging Station, can you see it ?

A young couple was already there charging their Zoe and the guy got out to tell me that it was not possible to charge two cars together ... oops, anyways I was not there to charge but just take pictures

Gas prices ... should make more people think about switching ... don't you think ?

It was written on the DBT CEV charging station that you have to go to the cashier before doing anything, probably to request an RFid badge to be able to activate the station, and pay 5 EUR if you do not a LEAF, the station being offered by Nissan ...

Thank you Nissan !

Nissan, BP and the City of Paris together for the opening of the First CHAdeMO Fast Charging Station inside the city

Invited by Nissan few days ago, I could not attend this event, but here are some pictures ...

Nissan, BP and the City of Paris gathered today for the opening of the First CHAdeMO Fast Charging Station inside the city




It should be free to Fast Charge your EV there for at least a year, as Nissan charging stations installation plan says: They provide the Charger, and the City and the BP gas station payed for the installation / wiring - which can be more than the cost of the Fast Charger itself -

It is located in a BP gas station, near Peripherique - the "ring" around Paris - at the south Ouest of the city

Check this gas rates out ! and the New EV Charge Sign ! Very cool


This BP station had been well known from the first Electric Car drivers in the mid 90's charging their car there to be able to go back home ...


Even a Tesla Model S was there, using the Type 2 European standard charge port


Chargemap is already referencing it and I stole few pics from their website


Same for the Renault ZOE, with its Type 2 frontal charge port

I could not attend ... Sorry I was working ;-) but I am planning on visiting next week end, this special gas station ...

Some pics stolen from Automobile Propre

Chasing a Renault ZOE in my Nissan LEAF

Unusual car chase on the freeway this morning: My LEAF and a white ZOE ...





I saw that he wanted to show me his ZOE is fast :-)




A little one hand video







I floor it now and went up to 140km/h ... (the Audi A3 tailing me all this time could not follow, lol !)




Now he's all the way behind ...

Ikea Fast Charging & Swedish Meat Balls Lunch

Last thursday, I went to IKEA for a little shopping and also a DC Fast Charge, few kilometers away from work during lunch break

6 bars / 12 : roughly half state of charge - SOC -

A woman interested in Fast Charging :-)

Actually I got many people looking at me parking on this spot and commenting: "This must be an Electric Car ..." and think it requires this huge Charging Station to fill up ...

CHAdeMO Yazaki Connector in place

Starting the Charge at 55%

Charge begins and it says: Voltage: 390V, Current 90A

Plugged in, Charging, in the sun, I am going in to eat something now !

IKEA's Special: Swedish Meat Balls and French Fries :-) not bad

LEAF Link App says 80% state of Charge is already reach while I am still in the middle of my lunch 

Swedish life style ... gotta love it  !

I went there to get table feet : 4 x 2.5 EUR per piece, a bargain

I know these ... I use one of them for my DIY ESS, the older grey version; Now they are available in Red and White only, but you can still find used older version in grey ...  

Install your ESS in it and put your TV on top !

After getting 4 iron table feet for 10 bucks (EUR), I finally got out of IKEA ...

Charge is over: 98% SOC, it took 60mn, 11.3kWh used

100% charge !

BTW, right next to the DBT Charging Station spot is the Autolib Charging Spot, and a Renault ZOE was parked there, charging, using its own cable

Type 2 / Mennekes connector into the ZOE

Type 3 plug, used only in France ... not for long anymore, Type 2 is now adopted by us too ...

Notice that IKEA / Autolib Charging Stations include the Scooter 220V Regular Outlet, so I could slow charge there too ... if I had the Autolib EV card - 180 EUR / Year, 15 EUR / Month -

The next, I went back there with my son to show him my work location and office building nearby and get some stainless steel wall covers for the kitchen and some Swedish crepes ...

A liitle comment to DBT CEV fast charging station maker: we can not see links between the screen and the buttons when in the dark ... 

Other than that, we got a 80% charge very quickly and a spot right in front of he entrance while raining a lot