I have reserved my Renault Fluence. Reservation number: 66.
First test drive should be in november and delivery should be spring 2012...
Looking forward
First test drive should be in november and delivery should be spring 2012...
Looking forward
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yeh, the ZCW team are driving them on Friday... it will be interesting to see what my colleagues (who don't currently drive EV) think of the cars.I'm due to drive it this Saturday so will report back but others on here are there on Friday I think.
When we drove the Fluence and Kangoo in Portugal recently we were told by Renault that the Fluence didn't need 'fast' charge because it was developed for Better Place (battery swap), and the Kangoo because major customers such as Le Poste drive less than the battery range each day.Nice car though, although I also don't understand why they are not equipping it with a 3-phase charger from the beginning.
Perhaps for a similar reason that the Leaf launched with only a 3.3kW charger.Why did Renault choose to have the first Fluence with a 1 phase charger?
All UK Leaf's include CHAdeMO as standard and the 6.6kW charger is confirmed for the 2013 model.Based on slow CHAdeMO rollout, and in response to customer requests, they will offer 6.6kW in future USA LEAFs (probably starting with the 2013 model.)
So from my point of view a good effort by Renault, worth being supported! They are still years behind Tesla, however! Fluence should be delivered January 2012 and Kangoo February 2012. Zoe Should be available in autumn 2012.
2012 will be the electric year, not only for Renault Daimler with Smart ED, Fisker Karma (finally!), Volt/Ampera (after the stop is lifted), Toyota RAV4 EV, and Nissan LEAF in more markets. What did I forget?
US (California in particular) will get a bunch of EVsWhat did I forget?