When you buy a Renault Zoe, the battery isn´t included. Instead, you sign a rental contract for the battery with the car maker. In a Zoe owner´s forum, user Franko30 reports that the contract contains a clause giving Renault the right to prevent your battery from charging at the end of the rental period. According to an article in Der Spiegel, the company may also do this when you fall behind on paying the rent for the battery.
This means that Renault has some way of remotely controlling the battery charging process. According to the Spiegel article, the Zoe (and most or all other electric cars) collect reams of data on how you use them, and send this data off to the manufacturer without your knowledge. This data tells the company where you are going, when, and how fast, where you charge the battery, and many other things besides ... More : https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2013/10/31/renault-will-remotely-lock-down- electric-cars/ http://tinyurl.com/ldbnhwf David Roden EVDL Administrator http://www.evdl.org/
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