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New, Fully Electric Renault 5
- Thread starter The Boosh!
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They'll find a way to f**k itRS tuning have one on the dyno and are discussing the possibility of putting the alpine map on the regular 5.
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Matt Cup
ClioSport Club Member
Leon Cupra, 172 Cup
There’s no exhaust pipe.
That probably confused them for a good few hours to be fair
Matt Cup
ClioSport Club Member
Leon Cupra, 172 Cup
Is their rep that bad on here? Like Beaniesport levels of badness?
GiT
ClioSport Club Member
Shit little Yaris...
PerthRS
ClioSport Club Member
Clio 182 CUP
This has peaked my interest.
Bit of a thread hijack. If you want to avoid creating clutter. Happy for a private message.
As it's hard to tune Clios locally for me. Paul from RSTuning happens to be coming to Aus for a nation wide 'tour' early next year to perform tuning. From what I've seen, they seem to be catered more towards things with a turbo (Meg's etc).
Got an RS2 inlet waiting in the wind. Pending choice of cams (it's known they respond well with 197 cams looking at tunes performed by Andy@ED and Chris@EFI). After speaking with Paul, he seems more interested in keeping the stock cams with stock timing. Plus seems to be focussed on if I have a fastchip RStuner (car currently has 98ron map) so he can use this to 'Flash' the car. Rather than using winOLS etc. Which relatively, doesn't spread alot of confidence.
Matt Cup
ClioSport Club Member
Leon Cupra, 172 Cup
My bro had his R26 mapped there years ago and didn’t have any problems as far as I’m aware. But I’m not up to speed with their rep nowadays.
seb
ClioSport Club Member
Clio trophy
What kinda deal did you get? Is it the 40kw battery one of the bigger version?
Starlet_gt
ClioSport Club Member
VW T5.1
Looks nice though..
seb
ClioSport Club Member
Clio trophy
nice. Much of a deposit?
I'm looking at the alpine a290 but it is currently approx £290 a mth over 3 years and 12mth deposit... so relatively hefty. 5k miles - which is fine for me as i do a couple of k a year max in my personal car.
Was also thinking of an R5 with the bigger battery depedning on how much less it was
I'm curious how folks find these electric R5s in the real world. I've just returned one as a hire car having unwittingly booked an electric car. I took it on with an open mind having raised the fact we had a 90km journey from Lisbon to Nazare.. no problem, range is 160km I was told. Enroute the car tried to divert us as charge was dropping, I declined, it was late, we'd been delayed 2 hours already with our flight and wanted to get to our digs for the night. Arrived with 5 percent charge...
The charging system in Portugal seems challenging with many chargers out of action, in use, not compatible, signal issues not connecting with the App requiring a physical card which you can't just obtain right away or at all as a non resident. Costs were also high with the App taking a cut, fees for charging and using the charging space. Range was abysmal and frankly felt like a noose around the neck with the uncertainty of where to get another charge, where the car will make it too and how slow you have to travel to even remotely maintain the predicted range.
Aside from all that I must say it was a pleasant enough environment to sit in, so smooth and quiet. But just not viable for our use on this holiday in this country. Different scenario charging at home on slow ac charge I suppose would result in way more affordable use but that wasn't a ln option on holiday. Returned it for a Seat Ibiza with a 3 pot, gearstick and petrol tank.
The engagement with the driving experience is palpable. Not a great car but 570km tank range and no stress of how to, where to and whether it will 'fill up' or not.
The charging system in Portugal seems challenging with many chargers out of action, in use, not compatible, signal issues not connecting with the App requiring a physical card which you can't just obtain right away or at all as a non resident. Costs were also high with the App taking a cut, fees for charging and using the charging space. Range was abysmal and frankly felt like a noose around the neck with the uncertainty of where to get another charge, where the car will make it too and how slow you have to travel to even remotely maintain the predicted range.
Aside from all that I must say it was a pleasant enough environment to sit in, so smooth and quiet. But just not viable for our use on this holiday in this country. Different scenario charging at home on slow ac charge I suppose would result in way more affordable use but that wasn't a ln option on holiday. Returned it for a Seat Ibiza with a 3 pot, gearstick and petrol tank.
The engagement with the driving experience is palpable. Not a great car but 570km tank range and no stress of how to, where to and whether it will 'fill up' or not.
luketheduck
ClioSport Club Member
R5; ex 182 LY
I've had the 5 for almost a year now, and still love it overall - but I've got a home charger, I wouldn't cope with owning an EV and not being able to charge it at home. Public charging does seem to be something of a lottery, and it's expensive too... I've done it a couple of times but generally try to avoid it. 99 miles (160km) range is terrible btw, what % was that starting from? Mine will do around well over 200 miles from 100%, although that drops off noticeably in cold or at actual motorway speeds.
Being an EV owner has not convinced me they are the future, I still prefer the 'no stress' element of an ICE engine but am watching developments. Some of the newer EV's now can do (claimed) nearly 500 miles on a charge which is good. Unfortunately, that isn't from technological advancements, but just throwing in a bigger battery - and a bigger battery means it wouldn't fully charge overnight on the cheap rate at home.
Being an EV owner has not convinced me they are the future, I still prefer the 'no stress' element of an ICE engine but am watching developments. Some of the newer EV's now can do (claimed) nearly 500 miles on a charge which is good. Unfortunately, that isn't from technological advancements, but just throwing in a bigger battery - and a bigger battery means it wouldn't fully charge overnight on the cheap rate at home.
