The Tire IDs (and pressures) are conveniently labeled Front Left, Front Right, etcetera, but the car has no separate receivers for the individual wheels. It just sees four values coming in and checks it. Enough for the warning light, but …
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Category: ZOE
When does ZOE “phone home”?
I’ve been busy recoding the interface between my home automation and ZE services as Renault changed their entire apps and API to “MY Renault”. That worked out with the kind help provided by James. All back on track again in …
200.000 kms passed (not me)
Dutch Q210 driver “OlafH” just had his August 2014 ZOE pass 200.000 kilometers (about 125.000 miles). SOH 91%. Who would have thought.
Some more digging in the intestines (Q model)
Two very interesting videos about the inner workings. Even disassembly of a PEB. Many thanks Dutch forum user “Riesbak”
Range screen
The Range screen has been fixed and needs some explanation. In essence it compares the available range calculated by the car to three different ranges: The first number is a range based on the current energy content of the battery …
Torque, acceleration, powerrrrr revisited
Quite a while ago I did a strictly theoretical calculation on ZOE’s acceleration. You can find the post here. The end result was 8.9 seconds. I think in reality it is somewhere between 11 and 13; I should really do …
A DIY CanZE dongle, part 2. Geek talk.
We might have ironed out most issues with the DIY dongle. If there are people willing to build an ESP32 based dongle, especially if they own a Q90, R90, or R110 model, we would like to hear about it. Requirements …
Defective key card – again
This is a re-post of what I wrote on SpeakEV a few days back. The battery in my key card had failed. Note that in the “non-keyless” version, the car does not warn you about that. I removed the mechanical …
Charging currents (three phase)
Before we start two things: I made a significant error about ripple current in the previous post, corrected now. Also, we have a lot less data for three phase operation, so this post is more speculative. If you think I …