Renault ZOE Overview - Interior, Intrumentation and Charge Port

Few days before the 2012 Paris Motor Show, I went to Renault EV Center to check out what they had at the moment

To my surprise, another Zoe was there, white this time, and with the doors open ... (last time I came everything was locked)

The exterior design is a hit I think, very nice

Zoe Dashboard => it's Green :-)

Front door interior

Dashboard with central screen

Central console touch screen & air conditioning controls

Central console lever (a bit big for Drive / Neutral / Reverse but why not)

Dashboard, right side, with a nice finish touch

Instrumentation close up

R-Link Navigation Touchscreen

Main Menu

A group of visitors who will try out the Twizy later on

Warning lights on

Rear doors lever

The rear seats look really cheap :-(

and not much leg room ...

From the rear seats

Then I asked my son to find the button to open the charge port 

Like the LEAF, it is located at the bottom left of the dash

And there it is, opening at the front, behind the Renault logo, with a illuminated Z.E. in the back

Once the charge port door is opened, there is another cap to remove ...

hiding the Type 2 charge port

Pins close up

And this is a charge station that could be used for AC quick charging

LEAF Link App Update - Login OK in France !

Following up my last post, I agreed to become a beta tester for the LEAF Link iPhone App in France, along with another user from Ausralia, as we could not get connected
Mike Heasley sent us a new beta version on tuesday, but it did not work for me, as it did for the Australian guy
Finally, last night, he sent me an updated version (1.0.9 with more servers) and this time I could finally get connected :-)
Mike is going to have to send the update to the Apple Store (I think it has to go through the approval procesa gain at Apple) and it should then be available soon ...

Thanks Mike on behalf of the French LEAF drivers !

Yes ! :-)

As my LEAF is sleeping in an underground parking at level - 2, it can not communicate with Nissan servers through its SIM card though  :-( 

So we will see how it works on saturday as we will go to Paris for lunch

Now, it shows a full battery pack :-) (? !)

The next step is to set up the information Feed in my CARWINGS account and in the LEAF 

And I should then be able to send data to the car (routes, contacts, GPS points,etc)

The App is now on the front page of my iPhone :-)

And what is nice is that this App really communicates with you through push notifications and lets you know what is going on; this is a big +

Update 14/09/2012:

And it should probably be OK for all European countries as Mike writes ! Let's hope so




And confirm on MyNissanLEAF (MNL) forum by Mike himself