Today is a smug day to be a Zoe owner.
I usually have to leave my house at 6.20am in order to start getting my two children to school and me to work. The temperature her in Bristol has dropped and the overnight temperature was predicted to be in the minus figures. Leaving the house at 6.20 is bad enough, but having to defrost your car at that time is just offensive.
The Zoe has what's called a 'comfort timer': (as long as the car is plugged into a power source) you can set the time that you want the car to be ready and it will prepare the vehicle to be comfortable for you to drive in. I'd read that this mean that the car defrosted itself too, but I didn't really believe it. I haven't had chance to try this feature out before because I wasn't able to leave the car plugged in, but, thanks to my new Rolec unit (courtesy of SOL Electrical) I can now leave EV plugged in overnight. With the temperature predicted to be so low, I thought I'd give it a go and set the comfort timer for 6.15am.
The alarm went off at 6am (yes, I only leave myself 20 minutes to get out of the house - I can't bear to set it for 5 something) and I could hear a whirring noise from outside. It was actually quite loud, but I do live on the edge of the countryside and it's very quiet here. I still thought that the car might just be warm inside, but I'd have to scrape the windows. To be honest, I wasn't hopeful at the inside temperature being warm because I've driven it for over an hour at a time and it's yet to reach the climate controlled temperature. The kids and I went out to the car at our usual time and to our great surprise, the car was warm and completely defrosted. We drove to the school bus stops this mooring with smug looks on our faces as we drove past all the ICE cars that were all iced up.
I'm starting to really love my car.
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