How can you get the most from your electric car?
If you’ve taken the plunge and gone fully electric then one thing is going to govern your driving style – range.
It’s king of the jungle in electric cars, chiefly because if you run out of juice there’s rarely a charging station within easy walking distance.
Renault wants to help its EV customers to get the most range from their cars, but it could involve going back to school.
As part of a new dealer strategy Renault could, in the future, offer eco-driving courses to customers either as they buy their new cars or soon after.
The aim is to increase range by as much as 25 per cent, the equivalent of 18 extra miles in Renault’s electric Fluence.
The added benefits of eco-driving also mean less pollution, especially if most of the population in urban centres are driving electric vehicles.
In one study Renault carried out in Rome, where it replaced a percentage of cars in the congested city with electric vehicles and studied the effects, emissions and dangerous particulate levels fell across the board.
In fact, almost half of the population of Rome was saved from suffering dangerously high levels of benzene. Elsewhere CO2 emissions fell by 30 per cent.
I’m not sure how I’d feel about needing to be ‘trained’ before I could get the most from my electric car – but it might become increasingly important in the future.
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Renaults in Turkey
Yes Renault does have a factory in Turkey it makes the Fluence there and maybe some other cars too . As for electric cars I think at the moment they are still only suited to City and urban area,s but in the future maybe as there range gets better ,more charging stations become more commen place and they become cheaper they might become more commen in the country too .
Go back to school...
...journalism school, Mr Moss. I think you've set some kind of record for the worst puff piece on Autocar in living memory. This is a seriously bad article.
EDC figures are ridiculous but...
... its true that your mpg depends on your driving style. Different drivers mpg may differ by upto 25 per cent on the same car on the same route.