You'd probably get a better response (and some of your questions answered already) in the PSA or Mitsubishi sections, but here is a quick summary.

C-Zero and Ion are identical except the interior seat/door colouring and exterior badges. The Ion interior is blue-grey, C-Zero is brown!

Before about mid 2012 the Mitsubishi and PSA models (C-Zero/Ion) are much the same, the radio is different and there are small differences in the exterior styling, key fob etc but that is all.

After 2012 there are significant divergences. All 3 cars got newer longer lasting (less degradation with age) LEV50N cells after 2012 but in the PSA cars the number of cells was reduced from 88 to 80 cells - reducing battery capacity from 16kWh to about 14.5kWh. The newier i-Miev's got 88 of the new longer lasting cells.

Preheating was also an option on later i-Miev's using a weird key remote thing, this was never available on the PSA versions. Early i-Miev and all PSA versions cannot run the heater while plugged in to charge, which means no pre-heating from AC power.

I believe the Tamashii pack was an improved interior - stitched leather seats and dashboard, which I would love to have as the standard seats are rather hard and uncomfortable foam! Not sure what else the pack might have had. I think there are only about a dozen cars in the UK with this pack so chances of finding one are slim!

Ion's seem to be the most common in the UK. If you check howmanyleft.co.uk you'll see there are about twice as many Ion's on the road as there are C-Zero's or i-Mievs. This is probably due to Peugeot mainly leasing them while Mitsubishi and Citroen were mainly selling them, because brand new they were a very expensive car in relation to their true (IMHO) value.

 

This is great information so thank you for this. So for a car that is 2012, what is the easiest way to tell which kind of battery setup it had from photos and/or in person?

 

Hi, I run a 2017 CZero. This is used for 90% of our automotive miles, about 11,000 miles per year., Based on some of the niggles highlighted on this forum, mostly from owners with older vehicles, I suspect that there was some product improvement between 2012 and 2017, especially software. So I would buy the newest model possible. For our usage, a combustion heater is a must: otherwise the winter range when heating and screen defrosting, demisting etc is demanded, would be impracticably too limited.

 

Holy thread resurrection.

What year did the IMiev get the remote key enabled pre heat function?

Did these later iMievs with the improved pack allow pre heat on AC? They are type 1 AC and Chademo DC?