Is the Renault Scenic E-Tech any good? Full Test and Review
so what is this then this is the Renault syic ech European car of the year 2024 today we're going to put it through his Paces test it and see what it's really all about because it is totally electric welcome to totally electric where we test drive electric cars and talk about sustainable mobility in this video we're going to do the electric slam of the Renault syic E Tech Electric exam is our proprietary format where we test eight categories that are relevant for selecting the right EV for you each category has its own weight and at the end will give a total score for the car if you want to compare this car with other cars that's gone through the electric s you can do so on our website I'll put a link below in the description now let's go check out the Rena syic I'm going to tell you about the Renault syic e tech but I'm going to do it quickly because there's a storm coming and I do not want to be CAU out in a Spanish summerstorm out here in the wild the Renault syic starts at € 38,700 here in Spain but this version is the one with the bigger battery and it goes all the way up to 48,000 it's also the iconic version so it's the top of the line on top of the 48,000 this has a paint job and a glass roof each of these adds another ,500 so the car you're seeing here actually cost $51,000 now that's the official price you might get a better deal at the dealership it has a massive battery 92 KW hours or 80 7 KW hours net so accessible to the user it means that it's one of the smaller SUVs with one of the bigger batteries and it gives it all the way up to 625 km according to the wltp standard though this one with these rims and these wheels only has got 610 however we'll test that later on and see how many highway miles that's actually going to give you the engine is located in the front so there's no frunk under here they couldn't fit it in I don't know why other brands can they cannot but fear not because even though this isn't the biggest of SUVs it's got a massive trunk in the back that's really big and in fact it's even bigger than the number suggest cuz it's really put stuff in there and it has a flooring that's quite far down it's got quite High space to the roof so that's a lot of space in there I've had this car for a month and I've traveled with it more than 3,000 km and it's just easy to fill up with suitcase no problem really big space in the back and that is despite this not being the biggest of cars it's only 4 m47 long so it's a C- segment SUV not even a d segment it weighs 1,917 kilos in this particular configuration and there's 0 to 107.9 seconds we are going to test that later on in this video as well it also has a top speed of 170 km an hour now I'm not going to test that I'm just going to believe the official numbers on that one okay I really like the look of the new new generation of electric Renault cars just like the Renault mean e tech this looks modern sexy and sophisticated so we got these uh rum boids I think they're called rum boids correct me if I'm wrong you know that emulate the logo of the brand are here in the front but there's no actual Grill up here we got a camera down here in the middle just to help us Park we got another camera up there in the center for the lane keeping then we got proximity sensors yeah and we got a sporty masculine front end lots of angles lots of Lights looks really really good we also got these Renault LED lights which you know turn on and off in sorts of a sexy sequence when we come come up to the car I like how the Thunder really add to the drama of this video I hope you can hear it and appreciate that I am taking a risk out here for you guys so the key for this car is standout Renault it's sort of like a you know flat credit card sized thing when I walk up to the car you'll see the door handles pop out and receive me so I can open and get in and if I want to leave the car just to close it I just leave it there and look at the lights look at how they say goodbye to me yeah I don't know if I'm going to be able to record the rest of this video today now one detail I dislike about this car is where they've chosen to put the charge board front right see at the front it means that you have to park front first into parking spaces don't know about you guys but here in Spain most parking spaces are quite tight and it's quite difficult to actually Park front first in there and a typical garage you have to like go down in your garage front first which is fine but probably not best when you're getting out so front charge port I dislike it however it is on the right hand side which is good for the Tesla superchargers but it's quite far back compared to where the nose of the car so even in some Tesla Chargers you still have a problem actually reaching the charging port would have been better had it been all the way to the front or actually even much better somewhere in the back of the car 20in rims by default on this version how about that you can optionally get 19in rims if you want these have a funny design so they got these two big pieces for aerodynamic so two opposing Parts not here just these two opposing there I kind of like the way they look what do you think about them it's funny that is 20 default and you can then option it down to 19 I guess if you choose the 19in rims you get better range out of this car at the back of the car you will find the smallest windscreen wiper in Automotive History well not maybe literally the smallest but it's really tiny and it's useless as well because you don't have to use the rear wind screen to view out the back use this camera here I'll show you that later on inside the car so it's a good looking car right it's got personality it's modern angular and very much Renault right now let's see how far can it go on a Char so we're going to do the range test of the Renault senic e tech officially this has 610 km of wltp range 625 if you get the smaller wheels and everything but this one officially 610 now I'm going to do the highway test so that means going at 120 I was just going to talk about the setup for the car cuz you got this Comfort Eco sport or persono persono I guess is personalized or customized so I'm not going to use sport obviously for a range test on highway so I was debating doing Comfort or Eco now I don't want to drive in a car you know nice car with uh no airon or anything else like you know the Comfort turned down low I don't want to do that I want to make sure that when I travel I'm comfortable so sometimes I don't want to use the Eco convict for these range tests because they take away my airon or something like that and who wants to drive a 50,000 car sweating in summer or freezing in Winter not me but in this car you can actually configure it even if you're in the ECO mode so that life on board you got the climate set to normal instead of Eco so I will be comfortable the only thing that this is going to change is actually the engine engine's going to have or engine why do they call it an engine it's not an engine it's a motor engine engine this car doesn't have an engine but know check your translations so the engine is set to Eco meaning I'll get a little bit less acceleration doesn't really matter as long as I'm on the highway however I will be checking that I can actually comfortably go at 120 km an hour and if not I'm going to set it back to normal driving comfort so here we are we got 100% battery Highway up here we're going to drive 120 km per hour going that way and then when when I'm out of battery we're going to turn around or when I'm halfway through the battery we're going to turn around and go back here and see how far we go 610 km officially according to the wltp in fact it says 611 right here let's see how far we can actually go I'm driving an Eco and I'm on the highway I'm allowed to do 120 but since I'm an Eco the car limits itself to 115 now this is exactly why I'm not using eco mode when I do the range test normally and I don't want to be driving 115 I want to do 120 so no Eco we're back to comfort here we go 120 let's move so I'm not even going to do 120 cuz according to the car I don't know if you can see the display here I'm doing 122 however 122 according to this car is exactly 120 according to a high Precision GPS I use a dragy which is this here device it's a high Precision GPS that'll do you check your 0 to 100 and all those things things but it will also give you a very very precise reading on your speed so 122 it is one of the most important things is not how far a car can go it is how well it helps you plan the charging stops so let's see how this car does I am right now close to Madrid so sort of 100 km from Madrid in Spain very nice place by the way so uh let's see if I can travel with this if it'll help me do traveling stops I'll use the voice assistance for this let's take a trip to Florence in Italy now to Florence okay so it's wow it's really really quick it took no time to go there it found charging stops on the way it tells me how much time I need to charge at each charging stop it found six this is absolutely perfect see the important thing is not so much that I can go 500 km in one go I can travel with a car that's got 200 km range if it tells me where to stop and charge and how much time and all that so if I click on stop start there it's going to choose a set of charging stations and as you can see it's going to tell me how much I'm going to have how much energy I'm going to have at each charging station when I'm going to arrive there how long time I have to stay there perfect that is the way to do it so according to the system if I turn around at the next exit and go back I'm going to arrive back at the charger with only 4% of battery I want you to remember this 4% because my hunch is that this system is quite conservative and I might have even more I hope so because 4% is cutting in a bit close right well let's check it out uh see you later if if I'll actually get there doing a range test with a modern day electric car means that I have to drive around 3 to 5 hours plus later the charging test but you know what I like doing this this is my dream job and the reason why I can do this is because of you guys the channel is growing and I seem to get more views more subscribers every day and for that I'm really grateful you see it's not always the same parameters you need to analyze before choosing an election car when you compare to say a combustion engine car and I think many reviews Miss some of the most important details and I hope to rectify that by these electri SS so if you like information about electric cars and what really matters when you're choosing your next electric cars I'd really appreciate that you subscribe as well thank you very much to those who have already done so now let's keep driving all right I've done 300 km now I've still got 20% left on the battery not bad I remember how I said we were going to get there with only uh 4% I just don't drove past the charger there and we still got 10% left so actually this system is quite conservative when it say you're going to get there with 10% you'll get there with 20 when it says you're going to get there with 2% you're going to get there with 10% and so on maybe that's a good thing because you know you'll always get there but honestly I think I just prefer a system that's precise and says exactly how much I'm going to have when I get there but you know it's better to be conservative than to be optimistic in this sense I'd rather it says two and I get there with 10 than it's saying 10 and I get there with two if you know what I mean so continued a bit further cuz I don't want to get there with 10% I want to get there with well below 10% so I can do a fast charging session now so now just continue a bit further I'm going to double back uh round and get back to the charger okay we've done the range test now I've been driving for 368 km but I've still got 8% battery left and I left with 99% so if we use a little bit of math that means that the full or range for this car in today's conditions is 44 km or the same as 251 mil that is a very good number I've been driving for more than 3 and 1 half hours now and I am [ __ ] I want to stop and charge now so the average speed has been 12 km an hour which is exactly 70 mph um the temperature has been between 20 and 28° C which is 68 to 88° fah the efficiency of this car has been 21.2 kwatt hours per 1 100 km or the same as 212 wat hours per kilometer or the same as 339 wat hours per mile now that could be improved and if you used two Teslas which is what everybody compares to in the comments take into account that this is an SUV and um yeah it's not too bad so next up we're going to do the charging test how long time do we have to stop for a charge let's do it car engl okay so I've just started the charging here I'm using this here the Thunder card so I am at a thunder charging station Thunder is a Spanish operator they've got more than 100 stations all around Spain and they're one of the most reliables there's always plenty of stations around when you are there to charge and you can use either a r ID card credit card you can use an app or you can even link it and use uh your car you know the linked car is just to identify the payment so I really like charging at these stations they're very convenient highly reliable and just plucked in so this this station can do 360 KW and the car supposedly 150 so we spent 21.1 kwatt hours to do 100 km and my test is how much time do we need to charge 200 km so we need to charge 42.2 KW hours here how long time is that going to take us okay check this out the car has
immediately started charging at 143 kilow it's a 10% charge okay so inside the car here's something funny you can see how many kilometers we've charge you can see the battery percentage and it gives us an estimate of how much time we need until we reach 100% in fact if I set the maximum charge of the battery here to something less say for example 80% it's now going to say how long time it'll take me to get to 80% and of course that's a lot more reasonable however it doesn't anywhere tell me what's the charging speed and that is quite annoying I mean here at this station I can see it cuz I can just go out and look at the machine or in fact since it's linked to the app I can actually see that right now we're charging 130 KW that's great but what if you're charging at a station where the machine or the app doesn't tell you like for example a Tesla Supercharger then you have no way of knowing and how many kilowatts are you actually charging your car cuz the car doesn't tell you in the machine and the app doesn't either stranger Mission check this out it's actually slightly more than 21 uh kwatt hours it's charged 21 kwatt hours in just 10 minutes that means that you can fast charge this car and charge 100 km in just 10 minutes all right check out these Thunder charging stations they're marvelous at least four posts per station fast charging solar canopy plenty of space between the cars so you don't ding your doors yeah all charging stations should be like this there you go 42.2 KW hours in 22 minutes and 30 seconds that's how long it takes you to recharge 200 km in the Renault Sonic ech so that means that if you're driving from Madrid to Barcelona which is 600 km you'll just need one stop of 20 minutes to get there it's not bad now it's time to test the acceleration of this car now this is a front-wheel drive you've got 200 KW of power on it officially 7.9 seconds to 100 which isn't going to impress a lot of track racers but let's do it anyway to check this out I have this this is a dragy it connects to a high Precision GPS on the top of the car and it should give us a very very accurate reading of 0 to 100 let's see if it can do 7.9 I've got 98% battery right now should be okay come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on this is not super quick let's go let's go I think that was 100 right I repeated the test now several times and my best time so far official time 7.9 seconds and I did it in 7.99 7.99 is not going to impress anybody on the dra strip it's not too bad for a mummy wagon is it all right let's see how else it drives this car has got several different Drive modes and I can trench them with a button here on a steering wheel just like a Ferrari that's where the similarities start by the way I've got three driving modes I can also do this on the screen I have comfort which is just normal driving I've got Eco which will get you further and I've got sport which will put a smile in your face I've also got perso which I guess is you know custom or whatever one thing I do like is that even though I'm in Eco for example I can still go in and configure some some things I can configure the steering effort so high it's quite firm and low it's very easy to move the steering wheel low is perhaps good for I don't know City Driving High for Highway I just like it in high I like to feel you know a bit connected to the wheels you got things like live on board so I can change the ambient lighting it can either be you know changing according to the time of day or I just put it on a personalized one so and just set it to my own favorite color which just happened to be pink today so now everything is I think that's more like purple isn't it well pink and purple it'll affect the screens and it'll also affect the LED lighting around which you can't really see now well maybe a little bit here but at night it looks really modern and really sophisticated I don't know if changing the interior LED lighting actually affects the range I don't think so to be honest so we've got these different driving mode so let's just set it to comfort but aside from that we've also got different levels of regenerative braking and you manage it using these pads behind the steering wheel just like a Ferrari again so there are four levels which is first one is just off so let's just try them and I'll show you see right now it's level nor and if I drive say for example slightly downhill here 30 km an hour 40 47 and let go it keeps accelerating it's just driving as if it was normal automatic car level one I can feel it level two I can definitely feel it and level three feels like I'm applying the brakes slightly which is good level three I would suggest you put level three on if you're driving in the city because you can actually drive most of the time and never even touch the brakes know somebody's you know you're com out to a a cross light or roundabout or something foot off the gas and it slows down significantly however there's one thing it doesn't do and let me show you what it is is I've got it maximum regenerative braking Letting Go 35 km an hour 30 25 20 15 10 and here we go it doesn't stop it keeps going what's this why don't you come to Full Stop Renault why do I have to put my foot on the brake why oh why Renault do you put me through this ordal why do I have to move my foot from the accelerator to the brake pedal in order to come to full stop this is the only thing that's wrong with this setup I would have so much liked it to at least be an option somewhere for it to come to a full stop if rol doesn't think that we should automatically all of us come to a full stop when we lift our foot off the accelerator pedal then at least give us the option to configure it in the menu right suspension is quite firm wheels are grippy it's got a nice solid feel to the driving however we've got two 200 horsepowers and they are to the front wheels and this being an electric car there not a lot of weight over the front wheels which means that if I go around a corner while I accelerate heavily look at this you will hear the wheels lose a little bit of grip not a lot just a little in fact most other cars with a similar motor and front-wheel drive they will skit a lot more around the corner this one actually didn't yeah it's not it's not like a rear wheel drive where it just pushes you through the corners here it does let go a bit but it's quite controlled I like the driving dynamics of this car they're quite nice actually it's not a sporty car by any measure but it is nice and firm to drive this is a relatively big car and I can certainly tell cuz there's loads of space in here got lots of Headroom I'm A M 90 6'4 but even so more than you know a fist above me and I guess that's because of this uh roof I've got here this um enormous glass roof which really lights up the whole interior of this car the seating position is nice and upwards I like the steering wheel it's chunky and it's got a good grip to it it's flat on the top flat on the bottom it's got like little holes in it I guess it's also heated and so are the seats the seats by the way are cloth they're not you know leather or faux leather which is so much in fashion these days and to be honest I kind of like the cloth seats especially when you're in Spain where it's hot as the surface of the Sun in summer materials they look really nice you know this part here on the sides has nice and sophisticated it's got LED lighting inside however they are a little bit plasticky in some parts you know you will find some Plastics that let's see how they hold up over the over the years so it's not luxurious materials that just more sort of standard materials the fit and finish is quite good everything fits in place everything is nicely and snuck put together with one notable exception if you look up here there's a light here and this light here somebody pushed it too hard it wasn't me but it's in there not so snu as that aside from that I have a place for my phone which also charges it I've got drink space I've got plenty of space in here nice big cabin one thing I will mention though if you look at this bit here if I am moving my elbow this this slides back and forth and it's slides quite easily so if I've got a co-pilot next to me and he or she's got her elbow on there and we can sort of fight whether we want this front or back not a big deal but quite annoying yes I'll fit well in the front let's see how well I fit in the back in the back of the Renault syic ech there's plenty of space here L I'm A M 90 I've got head room got L room um I've even got room to the sides it's quite wide this car I like it it's very comfortable back here and check out this I've got two USB ports down there to charge my devices but if that's not enough I can actually put this here thing down got two cup holders here and then I can open this I've got a storage space here and I've got another two USB ports down here and then I can do this and now I've got this funky phone holder thingy sticking out there how about that so yeah lots of space very practical you know what I think it's wide enough for three adults to sit next to each other here I think it might actually be I like this space a lot I could no problem travel from here to the end of the world sing in the back of this car very nice very nice Rena the Renault Sonic ech is an absolutely technological Marvel look at this we have a rear view mirror which is actually a camera so I can actually see something even though there's a small rear window or there might be people in the back not a problem I can just use this camera up there I've got this massive screen here in the middle and I've got a second air screen behind the steering wheel it's actually quite a big screen and it's got good well-designed colors it's really easy to understand what's going on there in fact the space in the steering wheel where where I can see behind it is wide open I like that it's really nice now we got this roof here which is a technological Marvel it's electrochromatic so I can electronically open it just change the transparency of it and I can do it front half rear half or full it works so well that even at 12:00 bright sunlight if I put this to the darkest setting the sun gives no more light than the moon at night oh I'm wrapping so that's great that's great this screen here is great the other screen is great and the steering wheel's got loads of buttons so we got on the left hand side for my Adas system the right hand side we got a set of sort of mitx match of buttons some are for managing part of the screen some are for music some of other stuff a little bit of everything but we have no less than three stocks here on the right hand side for audio for windshield wipers and for gear selecting now the audio one is particularly interesting it's got a wheel of the back to scroll to skip forward and backwards in songs it's got a volume up volume down a mode and a source button it's actually got two sources so you can switch back and forth between I don't know Bluetooth radio Etc all very very funny and excessive right now the funny thing is with all these button here they still didn't put a mute button on it if I want to mute it I have to push two buttons at the same time how is it possible Renault that you put 700 buttons on it and you didn't put a mute button on it weird now the rain's going to come down and I hope you don't mind the noise but that's why I'm sitting inside recording this bit right now I can't do the outside bit right now so sorry about that asides from three stocks here I've also got these levers here which I used to change the regen on the left hand side of the steering wheel I've got buttons for my Adas controls and on the right hand side I've got an assortment of buttons some I use for controlling this screen here some are for other random stuff I can even program one of them then I have a multi sense button the multi sense just change my driving mode between Comfort Eco Sport and personal so it's just a drive mode button but it's there and it's called M multisense funny isn't it aside from that I've got LED lighting in the interior that's out loads of Technology oh did I mention that on the left hand side I've also got another stock which is for the lighting so yeah four stalks two levers a floating button and touch buttons on the steering wheels here's the thing I don't like the way it looks it looks like I'm managing a squid or something like that it's just just too much of it however you do get used to it I've been driving this car for about a month now and it's fine I mean you don't think about it when you use it I now you know without thinking about it turn up and down my music and go back and forth on the songs and all that it's fine it's okay it's just a funny solution quite contrary to the minimalist solution that we have generally on cars nowadays specifically it's funny because we've got this massive screen in the middle which does everything as well it's got the Android auto motive setup here so that's wonderful now aside from that all these buttons here and stalks and stuff like that we've also got buttons here on the door for Windows and um adjusting my exterior mirrors and I've got a set of two buttons here on the left hand side one is for opening the chunk and the other is for activating my personal uh settings for the Adas controls which is super useful because if I double click it it'll turn off this super annoying beeping sound that that every modern car does when you go over the speed limit the rules it's not the car's fault really I have two USBC Chargers here I've got a wireless phone charger in the middle this car's got it all I mean for the price point the technology in this car is amazing you see the Android automotive system is perhaps the best system currently available for managing screens in a car and that includes the Tesla system I think this might be a little bit better it's super quick so if I want to plan a route anywhere I just have to tell it to do so I'm not going to use the keyword because all of your phones will be going off then so I'm just going to push this button here on the steering wheel instead take me to Barcelona see how quick this is navigating to Barcelona what no time whatsoever let's try something a bit more challenging let's try to go even further take me to London navigating to London 3 seconds gosh and it's now finding charging stops and everything this is amazing I mean I speak slower than this system fantastic so aside from that I've also got the customized and personalized apps I can install so if I want to use a better rout planner instead of the standard one that comes along I can do that cuz I've got the play store installed here play store has got a set of apps not all of the Android apps because that would be a security liability for a car but some of them are vetted so like Spotify and ways and I can use those in my car it works really really well and even if I don't like this system I can use Android automotive or Android auto from my phone or apple carplay wirelessly I don't have to pluck it in but honestly this system is so good I don't think I really want to use the Apple carplay do I probably not this being Google it also connects with your profile file so if I for example do a search on my phone to go somewhere it'll later on show up on my history on my car so it connects you it knows where you are where you're going where you work is ETC which is brilliant because it makes life easier for you and it's also good for your paranoia isn't it in this menu here you will see that there's also the 360 camera and it works really well as well I can see in front of the car I can see well a wide screen is this in front or behind no this is behind so I can see this view where I sort of got a top down View and the back of the car but if I just want a full screen of it I can see it like that or I can see the curb sides on both sides if I want to park or I can do this magical exterior view of the car I don't know how they do that do they because there's no drone flying around filming me but yeah they Stitch these images together and it gives you this wonderful view of where you are in sort of a 3D yeah brilliant now asides from the camera the Android automotive the Google this screen that screen we've also got a heated steering wheel we got heated seats in this as well we got LED lighting that you can either put to your own personal preferred collar or you can just have it automatically set we've got the electrochromatic glass roof this car is packed with technology wonderful in that sense we even have a parking assist that will help us Park and unpark how good is that so the Renault syic ech incorporates a level two driver assistance feature meaning that it'll do all the tasks of driving in a you know on the road but I am responsible so I have to basically keep my hands on the wheel at all times it'll maintain the distance to the car in front of me and it'll follow the curves uh around a corner it won't change the Lan for me I have to do that myself and of course it doesn't work when you have to go around roundabouts and other such complicated stuff like that but it is a standard level two system that we find in many or even most cars today this one works quite well I managed it with the controls on the left hand side of the steering wheel where I can turn it on turn it off change between the different modes there are three different modes there are let's just try them out here speed limiter so if I want to set it to a fixed speed so 12 120 and no matter how much I push on the pedal it won't go any faster than that then it's got uh let's see the active assistance which is everything and then it's got just adaptive cruise control now I like to use the active assistant the one that does both the cruise control and the lane keeping so I'm putting that on and I'm setting it to 122 cuz that's 120 real kilm now now I could have it automatically adapted to the speed signs it it sees but I don't want to do that cuz I don't want it to go down to 120 all the time on the screen I can clearly see what it is set to what my actual speed is and what the maximum allowed speed is right now I can also in the middle see how well it detects the lanes if they're green it sees the lanes perfectly and you can see that I'm stuck in the middle here perfectly well centered I can adjust the car within the lane without the system turning off which is very nice if I want to say for example avoid a pothole I see in front so I can just slightly turn to the right or to the left but as you see the system is still active and the are still keeping me in the lane if I want to change to a different Lane I have to put on my blinkers I have to do that manually it's not something it does automatically and that's something the system is capable of at least not right now I like the fact that it clearly indicates whether it's on or off and I like the fact that the steering wheel s of becomes a little bit heavier which is a good haptic response for this in order to detect whether I'm paying attention it detects my hands on the steering wheel and sort of the torque that I exercise size on it so it's not capacitive like Mercedes for example I just have to touch it slightly as if it was a mobile phone screen here I do have to actually exercise some pull on the on the steering wheel some torque on it it's not really a problem I just put my hand on like that and it can feel the weight of my hand and that's just fine for this system so let's see how well the lane keeping does going around a curve you can see there's a curve coming up here down there we're doing our 120 right now um there's a motorcycle in front of us doing exactly the same speed as well he's very good at maintaining this speed good job so I'm not doing the Turning let's see how well the car does I'm ready to take over at any time yeah it's staying within the lines it is having trouble sticking to the lines though it did painted in red but it's doing it we're going around the corner H it trembles slightly because it's like pay attention you can see the the steering wheel is moving I'm not turning I'm just having my Hands on the Wheel okay so here it did it it was okay but spoiler alert if it's a little bit tighter in the vents then uh you have to take over right let's see how it does here so far so good let's see this corner up here yeah it's okay it's actually not bad at all you do have to pay attention but it will do most of the job for you meaning that on a long road trip you will arrive at your destination without having to micro correct every 2 seconds and thus you know tiring your brain out let's look at the scores as always you can compare them with others on our website Linked In the description below range and efficiency 404 km of real Highway range is impressive and makes this a car that is easy to travel with this would give it seven points its efficiency was 21.1 kws per 100 km which is acceptable for a midsize SUV I'd also like to highlight
how easy it is to plan a route with charging stations included so we'll bump the score up to 7.5 points charging experience the time to charge 200 km was 225 minutes a reasonable time for a break making it easy to travel with this car the maximum charging speed is 145 KW but the charging curve drops off in steps slightly extending the total charging time I also don't like the location of the charging port I find it inconvenient in many situations you can schedule the charging but I miss seeing the charging speed displayed on the dashboard which I find to be a significant emission I give it 7.5 points for charging performance and driving this is a front wheel drive SUV built for Comfort not sportiness so it's not really fair to judge its Performance Based on acceleration but we live in an unfair world and that is just how the electric samam works it takes 8 seconds to reach 100 km an hour which only gives it an initial score of three points another negative point is that it doesn't come to full stop when you let off the accelerator so it doesn't offer true one pedal driving however it does have great adjustments for options for regen and driving modes the suspension is good and comfortable which is what you want in this type of vehicle really so we raise it a bit and leave it at Four Points interior and quality the Interior Space of this vehicle is excellent especially considering it's not a d segment SUV but a C- segment the interior is spacious enough for five passengers with plenty of luggage the fact that a car that is just 4.47 m long has 545 L of trunk is a big plus even though it doesn't have a Frank the design is modern and attractive but the materials feel a bit cheap in some areas and there's an overuse of hard plastics I give it five points for interior and quality exterior and design I love the exterior design of the Renault syic e tech it's modern unique and different from what Renault has done in the past I think renault's design direction for the mean the senic and the upcoming Renault 5 is spot-on with strong brand identity I give it eight points for exterior and Design Technology this car comes super equipped in this tested version electrochromatic roof Android automotive Google online integration 360 cameras voice control wireless apple carplay and a thousand other features it does have an excess of buttons and lers and interfaces the center screen operates smoothly and the system is intuitive and easy to understand even so I give it eight points for technology driver assistance systems the lane keeping and distance control systems work well although you need to stay alert because they can deaerate in curves without audible warning the reliability is relatively good but the functionality is limited it's not suitable for secondary roads as it can't handle tighter curves I like that there's also a speed limiter and the system features automated parking for driving assistance I give it seven points price I'll be referring to the price in my local Spanish market prices in other markets might vary slightly the Rena syic ech starts at 38,700 with the tested version going all the way up to $49,400 the only SUV with a similar range that can compete with the ren Scenic in terms of price is the Tesla Model y long range with rear wheeel drive which is currently available for 46,99 other Alternatives could be the Volkswagen id4 pro at 44,800 95 though it has slightly less range a vehicle with similar size and range would be the Nissan ARA with 87 kilowatt hours but its price goes all the way up to 57,200 therefore I find the Renault sing to be fairly priced and quite competitive if you're looking for a C- segment Sue with long range I give it seven points for Price taking into account the weight of each category and its score we reach a final Electro exam score for the Rena syic E Tech iconic of 68 out of 100 points remember you can personalize this score using our website Linked In the description below so that is the Renault senic E Tech and I think there are plenty of good reasons to choose this car at this price point you won't find another midsized Sue with this big a battery this long range and all the tech you've got inside perfect everyday car and you can even go for long road trips 404 km on a single charge and 200 km recharge in just 20 minutes not a bad package that Renault has put together here so thank you very much for watching this video you've been watching totally electric and if you enjoy videos that go into details about electric cars then this is a channel for you and if you reach this far I bet you do so I'd appreciate it if you subscribe and you will be able to then get a notification once we test a new car I have another one in mind it's slightly bigger than this one it's got a similar battery and maybe even a similar range
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