Hi All
My Zoe, on the drive selector, has no park facility. My assumption was that the gear box parking lock has been removed from the Zoe and the car now just relies on the rear electric parking brake to keep the car stationary when not in use.
However I notice that other electric cars have a reduction gearbox locking facility (park) and so I was wondering if the Zoe does still have this but may be purely an automatic function.
Richy
Thanks Kjell
Great Explanation.
I now understand how the car is braked when parking. Richy
On the Zoe ZE50, no mechanical parking brake thrue the gearbox exist at all (no peg that locks the gearbox as it was in ZE22 and ZE40 and almost all "normal" automatic transmisions. I does not matter whatever you set the leaver in when you turn the car off. Nothing stop the car from moving. Except the braking system. The parking brake kicks in when switching the car to off or after 180 seconds in the auto four wheel brake at any time if that function is turned on. The auto parking brake can be avoided by pressing down the parking brake switch and keep it down when turning off the car. To be noted NOTHING keeps the car to stay at all, it will move in any direction, foward or reverse. Annother danger on slippery roads is that the car when stopping is hold by all four wheels by the auto-brake, but when turning it of and that the parking brake kicks in it will release the brakes on the front wheels. And that may not be enugh to keep it in position...
Hi Richard, the ZE50s electric actuator parking break has nothing to do with the electric shifter, there's no gear box per say, it's just actuators that pull the brakes on and lock in place (presumably ratchet system or something) then when battery shut off it can't roll away