Charger design
This is a companion post to the BCB pictures post. It makes sense to check all pictures and text there first. A student in high power electronics contacted me to discuss some design issues and pointed me to this US …
Category: ZOE
Only single phase charging failing.
Just like in brain research, often a lot can be learned when things go wrong. A friend driving a ZOE was struggling for months with the weirdest problem. The car charged fine on public chargers, but not at home. However, …
V/I graph of the ZOE charging
Harm Otten had a team from the local electricity distribution company over for an unrelated metering problem, and obtained from them a screen shot of the voltage / current curve of ZOE charging. This is a Q model. The dark …
Android Auto – also on the oldest of ZOEs
It turns out even the oldest R-Link consoles have Android Auto support, though disabled. It takes some work to enable it but it is very doable. Need to drop a few huge thank-yous for people involved and I really hope …
The charge plug locking mechanism #4
For a few days charging has been a bit problematic, and finally it quit altogether yesterday. The problem was now definitely the plug locking mechanism as it kept on clicking while the plug was surely locked. I removed the mechanism …
UCM module fuses
This is a guest post by SpeakEV user modrich. I managed to locate and replace the blown 10amp fuse that feeds the reverse light, camera and parking sensors. The reason for this post is that the fuse isn’t located in …
The start button (while driving)
Somebody in the UK forum asked what would happen if you’d press the Start button while driving. Time for an experiment. Pressing once: only thing happens is Cruise Control tripping off ; Long press: nothing happens; Five short presses: “ignition …
Another method to connect the dongle in a neat way
Picture tells more than words. Made from two sheets of back-to-back glued foam rubber, see this post. Thank you goingelectric.de user “TomTomZoe”!
Easy removal tip for the shelf hiding the SAE1961 connector for the dongle
goingelectric.de user “Urban” had this brilliant solution for the sticky shelf. We’ve published a more permanent solution here but nonetheless I immediately applied some duct tape 😉
More battery change pictures
This time made by car mechanic of one of Bochane Almere, a ZE dealer here, through forum user “hachy”. Thanks for letting us use them! Edit: and lots more, with video, here.