Ranked #113 car in the UK · Hatchback (EV) · 1 units sold last year
WLTP
The short version
Forecourt score
Value 1 · Reliability 47 · Insurance 79
The Renault Zoe loses value faster than most cars and is cheaper to run than most. Its MOT-based reliability is good, 72 out of 100, ahead of 47% of the cars we track. On three-year value retention it ranks better than 1% of models. The main things to check on a used one are the battery lease verification.
The Forecourt score blends how this car ranks against the catalogue on value retention, reliability and insurance cost (weighted 40/40/20). Higher is better; running cost is not yet folded in.
Estimates are tuned to the version you choose.
Fuel
Electric
Power
135 ps
Drivetrain
FWD
Efficiency
4.2 mi/kWh
The volume used Zoe (2019-2024). 52 kWh ZE50 battery, R135 motor (135 PS), ~245 mi WLTP. DC charging optional and slow (~50 kW); many cars are AC-only. No heat pump. The original affordable used EV.
Tidy and well looked-after for its age — the typical car.
Remembered as you browse other cars.
Optional — fills in the exact year and ULEZ status for your specific car. The registration isn’t stored.
Estimated market value
How we got this number — click for the breakdown, or to challenge it.£9,150
Range £7,250 – £11,300
medium confidence
How a 2023-registration Renault Zoe loses value over time.
Based on the 2023 car with 22,500 miles you entered above — worth about £9,150 today — here is the cost of owning it for the next 5 years, at roughly 7,500 miles a year.
5-year total
£12,161
Per year
£2,432
All-in per mile
£0.32
Fuel per mile
6.8p
If a company carAround £31/mo Benefit-in-Kind tax at the 40% rate (£15/mo at 20%) — 3% band (EV)
If you're a company-car driver
At 3% BIK, this would cost a 40% taxpayer about £31/month in company-car tax (£15/month at 20%) — one of the strongest cases for choosing an EV via salary sacrifice. Full BIK table below for context.
Best age to buy — around 2 years
A 2-year-old example loses roughly £2,250 a year — under half the £6,050 a one-year-old sheds. The steepest drop is behind it.
Uses current UK pump and home-charging prices (DESNZ weekly), typical-driver insurance and manufacturer service intervals. "Fuel per mile" is just the energy input — so an EV at ~9p and a diesel at ~22p make running-cost comparison direct. A guide; your own costs will vary.
Where this car ranks against the 340 vehicles in our index — higher is better.
Percentile rank across our full index. A measure is shown only where the data spreads meaningfully across the index.
How the available versions compare on price, running cost, and the headaches each tends to develop.
The default Z.E. 50. AC-only charging (no DC) means long trips need 6-8 hour charging stops on Type 2. Fine for daily use, painful for tours.
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The pick if you want any long-trip capability. 50 kW DC adds CCS charging — 30-40 mins for 10-80%. The £2k premium over R110 is recovered in usability.
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Older Z.E. 40 cars are abundant on the used market at £8-£13k, but the battery-lease risk is real. Get the V5C, the original sale paperwork, AND a Renault dealer to confirm lease status before paying.
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Fuel/energy costs based on this week’s UK averages (w/c 22/06/2026) · Petrol 153.3p/L, Diesel 172.5p/L, Electricity 27.0p/kWh · DESNZ
Group 16 of 50 (mid — around the UK average) · Comprehensive · 3 years NCB
Indicative annual comprehensive premiums for this car, by driver age band and risk profile. Pick the combination closest to your circumstances.
Estimated annual premium · typical, age 33-39
£856/ year
Roughly £71 per month
Typical
Average UK driver — 3 years NCB, average postcode, no recent claims.| Age band | Lower risk | Typical | Higher risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age 17-25 | £1,952 | £2,440 | £3,171 |
| Age 26-32 | £1,019 | £1,198 | £1,462 |
| Age 33-39Selected | £753 | £856 | £1,010 |
| Age 40-49 | £639 | £710 | £824 |
| Age 50+ | £570 | £633 | £747 |
How we estimate this
Indicative annual comprehensive premium estimates. The 'Typical' figure represents an average UK driver in each age band; Lower and Higher risk show the realistic spread driven by factors UK insurers legitimately price on (postcode, occupation, claims history, NCB, voluntary excess, modifications). Based on 10,000 miles/yr, £250 voluntary excess, and the no-claims bonus selected above. Always get individual quotes before buying.
Adjust the annual mileage to match how you'll actually use the car. Insurance is what you selected above (age 33-39, typical risk, 3 yrs NCB).
Routine service
£220
Annual main-dealer service
Major service
£190
Every 2 years, annualised
Road tax
£195
Standard rate, post year-one
Electricity
£482
4 mi/kWh, 27p blended
Insurance
£856
Age 33-39, group 15
Clean-air zones
✓ ULEZ compliantBased on London ULEZ standards — Birmingham, Bath, Bristol, Sheffield, Glasgow and other UK clean-air zones generally follow the same rules.
Excludes depreciation and unscheduled repairs (see next section).
Drawn from owner reports and warranty data. Filtered for relevance to 22,500 miles.
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Failure typically happens around your current mileage.
Upcoming
A known weak point — but you haven't reached its usual mileage yet.
Already due
Past its usual failure mileage. Either already fixed, or about to.
Critical buying step. Pre-2020 Zoes often had separate battery lease contract (£59-£89/month). Renault Mobility Services can confirm. If lease is active, that's a real ongoing cost.
Type 2 cable refuses to release. Manual override accessible via emergency release lever in boot. Lubricant on the lock pin helps.
Standard wear. Flat 12V can disable car functions including HV battery enable — keep on a trickle charger if left for weeks.
HV battery liquid cooling pump fails. Warning lights and reduced fast-charge speed are the symptoms.
Typical 10-15% degradation by year 5. Renault provides battery State of Health (SoH) reports at dealers — request this pre-purchase.
Certain Type 2 chargepoints reject the Zoe's 22 kW handshake. Try a different chargepoint or step down to lower kW.
"Parts low/medium/high" indicates how easy the replacement part is to source — discontinued or specialist parts mean longer workshop time and bigger bills.
Euro NCAP's independent crash-test rating for the Renault Zoe, from its 2021 assessment.
The passenger compartment of the Zoe remained stable in the frontal offset test.
Independent crash-test data from Euro NCAP. Star ratings reflect the test protocol of the year shown — newer protocols are stricter, so a 5-star from 2024 represents a higher bar than a 5-star from 2014.
Good
Estimated: EV powertrain is mechanically simple and durable, but owner surveys flag 12V-battery, infotainment and non-motor electrical niggles (mostly fixed under warranty). External MOT-aggregate ~71/100; the site's own MOT sample did not join to this slug.
MOT outlook
Insufficient MOT history at this car's reference age — too few tests to compute a reliable percentile.
Safety recalls
Manufacturers occasionally issue safety recalls to fix a fault free of charge. You can check whether the Renault Zoe, or your exact vehicle, has any outstanding recalls on the official DVSA service.
Check on GOV.UKOpens the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency recall checker. Choose the make, model and year of manufacture — no registration needed.
A general indicator from UK 2025 theft data and this car’s characteristics — not a prediction for any one vehicle.
Whole-car theft
Around average
Theft risk is around the UK average. Like most modern cars it has keyless entry, so relay theft is the method to guard against.
Parts theft
Lower
As an electric car it has no catalytic converter, so the most common parts-theft vector doesn't apply.
Worth doing
Whether driving a Renault Zoe into a UK clean-air zone will cost you anything. Rules use the same Euro standard across most zones — petrol from 2006 and diesel from 2015 onwards are exempt; pure electric is always exempt.
| City | Area | Daily charge | Likely outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | All of Greater London (within the M25) | £12.50 | Likely exempt Battery-electric — exempt everywhere. |
| Birmingham | Inside the A4540 Middleway | £8.00 | Likely exempt Battery-electric — exempt everywhere. |
| Bristol | City centre and part of the Portway | £9.00 | Likely exempt Battery-electric — exempt everywhere. |
| Glasgow | City centre | — | Likely exempt Battery-electric — exempt everywhere. |
| Edinburgh | City centre | — | Likely exempt Battery-electric — exempt everywhere. |
| Aberdeen | City centre | — | Likely exempt Battery-electric — exempt everywhere. |
| Dundee | City centre | — | Likely exempt Battery-electric — exempt everywhere. |
Model-level guidance only. To check a specific registration, use the official gov.uk clean-air zone checker. Zone charges and boundaries are set by local councils and change over time.
Winter range estimates assume ~5°C ambient with cabin heating; figures from manufacturer cold-weather testing where available, otherwise derived as a fraction of WLTP. DC times are manufacturer-claimed 10–80% on the headline charger; real-world sessions on UK rapids can be slower. Charging cost is a full battery at the home/blended electricity rate; public rapid charging costs more.
UK charging network
As of 2026-04-01, the UK has 119,080 publicly available EV chargers, up 12.6% on the prior year (13,281 added in 2025). 23% of those are rapid (50 kW+) or ultra-rapid (150 kW+), so the network can support both home and on-route charging.
3-8 kW
50%
Standard
8-50 kW
27%
Standard plus
50-150 kW
12%
Rapid
150 kW+
11%
Ultra-rapid
Source: Department for Transport / Zapmap · Released 2026-05-21 · DfT statistics
What HMRC's Benefit-in-Kind charge looks like if you ran this Renault Zoe as a company car, by tax year and income-tax band. Calculated from a CO₂ of 0 g/km and a WLTP electric range of 195 miles, using £30,500 as the P11D value.
EVs sit at the bottom BIK band — currently 3% — so this is one of the cheapest ways to take a company car.
| Tax year | BIK % | Tax @ 20% | Tax @ 40% | Monthly @ 20% | Monthly @ 40% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 3% | £183 | £366 | £15 | £31 |
| 2026-27 | 4% | £244 | £488 | £20 | £41 |
| 2027-28 | 5% | £305 | £610 | £25 | £51 |
| 2028-29 | 7% | £427 | £854 | £36 | £71 |
| 2029-30 | 9% | £549 | £1,098 | £46 | £92 |
P11D value is approximated from the latest new price; the exact figure on your tax code will depend on options fitted. The 4% diesel surcharge applies only to non-RDE2 (pre-2021) diesels — we assume RDE2 compliance for current models. Bands and rates from HMRC's Autumn Budget 2024 confirmation through 2029/30.
How well-supported Renault is across the UK — a practical read on how easy servicing, parts and warranty work will be to find.
Franchised UK dealers
~140
Large network
Mass-market
Network size relative to the UK's largest (Renault is 3.1% of all franchised outlets)
Servicing, parts and warranty work are easy to find UK-wide, and most independent garages know the brand well — which keeps maintenance competitive.
For context, the UK has roughly 4,500 franchised car-dealer outlets in total, plus about 15,500 independent garages.
Approximate figures, curated from public UK industry sources (NFDA, Car Dealer Magazine). Franchised networks shrink year on year — these indicate network size, not an exact count.
Of every Renault Zoe ever registered in the UK, this is what's actively on the road, parked off the road on a SORN, or gone for good.
Total ever registered
28,469
Currently taxed & on road
27,379
96% of all registered
SORN (off road)
646
2% of all registered
Scrapped or exported
444
UK fleet trend — 2014 to 2025
-1.3% vs 2024Source: DfT VEH0124 vehicle licensing statistics (year-end 2025) · Updated 1 Jul 2026
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Answers are generated from this car's Forecourt data — DVSA MOT records, DfT licensing statistics and our valuation model — and update with the weekly data refresh.