00:00Well, as a long-term Tesla driver coming from a massive Tesla Model S, I now find myself with
00:08the Renault 5 EV, one of the most popular cars in Europe and now in the UK as well. So with my
00:15time with this one on the road, nearly three weeks, what have I found that surprised me the
00:20most? And there's a couple of things in there that I'm going to tell you they will surprise you as
00:25well. So here is my top five. This is Dave Takes It On, I'm Dave. So regular viewers will know we're
00:32out on the road all the time and we found ourselves today in front of the Woodsman. We're in Leyland,
00:38this is near Preston, northwest of England. Oh, and a gorgeous smell coming out of the pub and
00:44the restaurant, whatever you call it. We're also in front of a couple of Osprey Chargers. These are
00:49dual bays and yes, they've got CHAdeMOs here as well. So it's 75 kilowatts for the CCS2 and 63,
00:56strange number for the CHAdeMO. And once again, bright yellow, we've got our Renault 5, which we've
01:02had on extended tests for the last three weeks. So without much further ado, let's just get on with it.
01:10What starts at number five? It's really beginning to show my age on this. I'm sure this is aimed at
01:20the millennials who are much more internet savvy than I am. It is this little Renault character.
01:28I don't even want to say his name, but every time you're driving along, it pops up. It listens to
01:34every word I say and it keeps on going, I don't understand that question. And I say,
01:40I didn't ask you a question. I was talking. Unfortunately, I can't help you with that.
01:45Oh, I didn't understand the question. It is so annoying. It is not a helper. It's supposed to,
01:53I believe, help. And maybe someone who's 20, 50 years younger than me might appreciate that or laugh
01:59at it or find it amusing. Me, it's so annoying that our first thing I did when that started popping
02:06up all over the place was I got my eldest son to find a way of turning it off. And the really good
02:12news is you can. Now, while hating Renault was a really annoying feature that should be banned from
02:21all cars, number four is actually quite the opposite. It's something that you don't find on many EVs,
02:27and it should be on every single EV ever made or ever about to be made. So let's have a look what
02:34it is. We're dealing with the charging side of the business. And here is the charger port,
02:39simple push button opens. It's not that, by the way, there's a lot more going on.
02:44You've got your normal plug, CCS2, of course, in the normal way. There's no difference there.
02:49You've got a push button there, which tells the car whether the charging port is closed or not.
02:55And look down here. We've got an off button and we've got a padlock.
02:59Now, let me explain. When we go out filming, the number of times we come across cars which have
03:05got the plug locked into the socket and there's nothing they can do to break it. I came across
03:11one on the M6 up north. A gentleman had a Polestar and it turned out that the Polestar does not have any
03:21sort of button anywhere on it or on the app to release this and it relies on the charger to
03:27release it. And unfortunately, he'd set it to 100% state of charge and he only wanted a short charge
03:32and he couldn't get off it until it got up to 100%, which took ages and spoiled his day.
03:39So, we find it also Chester East services on the M56 where Nissan Leaf was actually stuck in and there
03:46was a grid serve engineer trying to get him off at the time. So, the feature here is the little padlock.
03:53Now, what does it do? It's really simple, so intuitive. If you are plugged in and charging
04:00and the car is unlocked, so don't worry, nobody can come here and just turn it off on its own.
04:07As long as the car is unlocked, if you press the button, the charging session stops instantly
04:14and the plug is released instantly. We're going to show you this in action because it's so impressive
04:21to see. You can just wander up and without a worry in the world, you can end any session,
04:27any charging session that we've ever tried. And we've tried pretty much all the chargers.
04:33You just press that button, session ends, you can pull the plug out. So, let's press that
04:38while it's charging and see what happens. Ah, the contact is killed. That now comes out.
04:46And that is such a useful feature. Coming from a Tesla, we have the opposite where the
04:52button is on the charger, if we're using a Tesla supercharger. And that does very much
04:57the same thing, but it also controls the flap. But that on every EV, I think should be absolutely
05:04compulsory. It's just peace of mind. It doesn't matter what the charge is doing, what your app
05:10is doing, what your display is doing. If you want to end the charge, as long as the car's unlocked,
05:16and these are proximity, so when you walk towards them, they do unlock. Press the button, you can pull
05:22the plug out, end of subject. And I think that is a really, really good feature that has surprised me
05:30on this Renault 5.
05:34Okay, so we come from a positive, and we're coming back onto the negative side, and that's
05:38the driver assist features. Now, we're not talking safety here. Safety features on virtually all the
05:44cars are absolutely brilliant. They're designed to protect you. What we're talking about here is the
05:49driver assist. These are the features that are meant to help you. And in some cases,
05:55they actually actively work against you or really frustrate you. The first one I came across, I have
06:01found a way around this, by the way, and it's quite logical once you know it, but nobody tells you this.
06:06And that is the auto cruise, the cruise control, adaptive cruise control, whatever you like to call it.
06:12And this is where you're coming down a slip road on the motorway, and you're doing 50 miles an hour,
06:17you join the motorway, and in front of you is a set button for setting auto cruise or cruise control.
06:23And if you press that, it will default and set the cruise control to whatever speed you're doing,
06:2951 miles an hour. So annoying, and nobody actually educates you as to how to change that.
06:36So the only way out of it, before I found the fix, was to switch it off again, accelerate manually up to
06:4270 miles an hour, and then set it again. And then it would set at 70 miles an hour.
06:48There is a little button on the steering wheel, which will actually do that for you. It will
06:53ignore the set button, which always sets the speed you're doing, and it will allow you to set whatever
06:59the speed limit it's showing. So there is a workaround, but they don't tell you these sorts of things.
07:05It's not intuitive. The set button doesn't. But the speed limit also brings me back to the second
07:12bit of this, which really annoys me. And that is, it doesn't always know what the speed is doing,
07:19it doesn't always know what road it's on, and sometimes it mixes the two. Let me give you an example.
07:25We joined the motorway down the slip road, we got onto the motorway, and for some reason,
07:30the dashboard was saying speed limit's 70 mile an hour. The cruise control was saying it's 50.
07:38And every time I accelerated above 50, it was bing, bing, bing, you're speeding, you're speeding.
07:44We're on a four-lane motorway. It says 70 mile an hour, but this thing thinks it's 50. And there is
07:52no way of overriding it that I have yet found. That is so annoying, because I know it's 70,
07:59the car shows it's 70, and yet it won't let you do it. Now, the way around it was a really stupid one,
08:06and that is you come to some roadworks, and there's a big 50 sign, and the car goes, oh,
08:10and it changes the dashboard to 50. And then when you get to the end of the roadworks,
08:14and it says de-restricted, it goes 70 and lets you go to 70. It's a crazy system, but if the car
08:20believes the speed limit is not what it actually is, there's very little you can do to override it.
08:25Now, number two, we're back on the positive side again. There's a lot to say for this car that's
08:33really positive. But are you one of these fastidious people, or what do they call them, OCD, who has
08:41to have everything just right? Have you ever been for a picnic, and at the end of the picnic, you've
08:46noticed there's a load of crumbs all around, and it just upsets you. You can't leave it. You need the vacuum to
08:54clear it up before you can go home. If that's you, boy have I got something for you. And it's,
09:02yeah, I'm not going to hold it like that, because that's, yeah, say no more. What's this?
09:08Very, very simple. On one end you have a Type 2 socket. That fits in there perfectly.
09:16On the other end you have, look at that, a three pin socket. So, at the end of your picnic,
09:26you simply plug this into your car, plug your vacuum cleaner into that, hoover up your crumbs,
09:34unplug it, and off you go home again. It's so simple. But no, on a serious note, these are brilliant.
09:40So this is something called vehicle to load, and it just allows you to plug in your vacuum cleaner,
09:46or your sandwich toaster, or your kettle, or your tasimo machine, or whatever it is you want to make
09:52your life very much easier. Or if you go down the beach with the kids and you've got big inflatables
09:57to blow up, put an electric pump in there. Saves your lungs, saves you getting all lightheaded.
10:02Brilliant feature. It will advance in future years to vehicle to grid, totally different subject,
10:08but vehicle to load is so useful at this stage.
10:15Now, number one was a really strange one for me coming from a Tesla, because it is regen braking.
10:23Having driven a Tesla for years and years and years, you just get used to the regen braking that
10:30Teslas have. It is very, very powerful. And it also allows you to come to a complete stop. It's called
10:37One Pedal Driving. So when you're driving along, you keep your foot on the accelerator. As you're
10:42approaching a set of lights at a certain distance before it, you just take your foot off the accelerator.
10:49The car will coast quite quickly down to a stop and stop. And it's a fantastic feature. Love it.
10:56It takes a bit of getting used to.
10:58But on this one, it actually had me totally baffled. And I'll tell you why. I'd searched all the controls
11:06and everything else to try and find out the regen. Because when I first drove this one, I took my foot
11:12off the accelerator and it just kept going. It's as if there was no braking at all. It's more like
11:19pushing in the clutch on a petrol car and just coasting. It had no effect at all. And when I was driving
11:25around, I was getting very, very poor economy. It was doing between 2.9 and 3 miles per kilowatt hour,
11:33which on a car like this is appalling. It should be four or more. So I was trying to find the bottom
11:38to press to change the regenerative braking from almost nothing to something worth having.
11:43It took a long while, but eventually I found it. It's on the gear lever. You pull the gear lever down
11:49into drive. If you pull it again, it switches into B. It is so simple. There should be an indication
11:56on the screen which mode you're in, rather than just a little letter in the top corner. Anyway,
12:03once I switched into B, the car transformed itself. It was a different beast altogether. The economy
12:10leapt up to between 3.9 and 4 miles per kilowatt hour. I mean, I've been losing about a third of the
12:16total range of the car. And it began behaving much more like something that I was used to with
12:23one-pedal driving. It won't do one-pedal driving, but that's not the end of the world because now it
12:28will bring you down to almost a stop. But the last couple of miles an hour, it just then creeps.
12:35An awful lot of comments I get on the channel are about one-pedal driving and how when you first do it,
12:40it's horrible because you take the foot off the accelerator and slams on the brakes. But after a short
12:45while, it's just lovely to do. You don't need to press your brake pedal. Everything is just done on
12:50the accelerator. It would be nice for this to have it. But the really strange thing from my point of
12:57view is no Tesla ever made has had any sort of control to be able to turn the regen off.
13:05And the reason they don't is because without regen, they have rubbish range.
13:10So why on earth do we get a control which allows you to turn regen off? Because you might forget and
13:19drive around town for a week and all of a sudden you're down at 2.93 miles per kilowatt hour. It
13:24doesn't make any sense why that's a feature. You either have regen or you don't. If you've got regen,
13:30make it a decent strength. If you can, make it one-pedal driving. It would improve the car
13:34dramatically. But it does have regen braking and that massively affects the range. So am I really
13:40nitpicking? Am I spoilt having come from a Tesla to a Renault 5? You might think so. It would be
13:48interesting for you to have a look at the full review of this car after we've been driving for
13:52a couple of weeks and you'll be able to find that in our playlist. And that gives a much broader scope
13:59on it. But this one is just the five features that have really surprised me, shocked me, angered me,
14:06irritated me. Just the things that really stand out. So thanks very much for watching. If you've
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