Peugeot is getting aggressive with its electric car rollout in Australia.
It as of now sells the E-2008 SUV locally, and it’ll before long be joined by the E-208 and E-308 hatchbacks, alongside the E-Accomplice electric van. From the final part of 2024, likewise be joined by the astounding looking E-3008 SUV on test here.
The current 3008 is the top of the line Peugeot in Australia, and is presented with a decision of petroleum or module power. This new model is appearing with electric power, before petroleum and module crossover models follow worldwide.
In Australia, all we know is that the E-3008 is coming – and the gentle half breed petroleum will probably hit neighborhood display areas as quickly as time permits subsequently, given the ongoing vehicle’s importance on the deals diagrams.
At the point when it lands, the 2024 Peugeot E-3008 will join the madding horde of electric SUVs pursuing the Tesla Model Y, hobnobbing including the Renault Megane E-Tech to the Hyundai Ioniq 5.
In spite of the fact that Peugeot Australia hasn’t authoritatively affirmed it, the worldwide item director for the vehicle told CarExpert the main model that will be presented at send off overall will be the standard reach front-wheel drive, with AWD and long reach choices to continue in 2025.
At the point when it handles, the E-3008 will seem to not be anything else on Australian streets. Its fastback configuration is unmistakable, and subtleties like the absence of noticeable weather conditions seals and covering around the front grille make give it an interesting presence.
Concerning the fastback? We’ll allow you to be the adjudicator.
How does the Peugeot 3008 analyze?
View a definite breakdown of the Peugeot 3008 against comparatively measured vehicles.
What amount does the Peugeot E-3008 expense?
Valuing for the E-3008 hasn’t been secured for Australia, yet we realize the amount it’ll impair you in right-hand drive Britain.
The base Appeal starts off at £45,850 drive-away, comparable to around $89,500 in Australia. The reach beating GT will impair you £38,150 drive-away, or around $96,750 in Australia.
It’s normal for vehicles to be more costly in the UK than Australia; the 308 GT in Australia is $43,990 before on-street costs, contrasted with what could be compared to around $62,000 in England – at the end of the day, English costs aren’t gospel.
It’s likewise important just the base front-wheel drive model with a 73kWh battery pack is accessible in the UK. That is possibly a sign with regards to what we’ll get Down Under, given we’re additionally correct hand drive.
How is the Peugeot E-3008 within?
This is a shocking vehicle inside, particularly when you believe being taking on Mercedes-Benz or BMW is not implied.
The top-end GT mixes calfskin seats with warm, dim texture trim on the dashboard, and genuine aluminum trim going around the foundation of the windscreen onto which the surrounding lighting is anticipated.
Toss in the sculptural scramble plan, and the delightfully bended double screen arrangement, and you have a show halting lodge.
The basics are strong also.
The (manual) front seats offer a lot of help for abnormal bodies, complete with lumbar change for the driver, and the most recent cycle of Peugeot’s dubious I Cockpit no longer powers you to pick between having freedom for the wheel or seeing the computerized dials.
It’s actually going to switch certain individuals off, however Peugeot has bit by bit refined its small haggle set instruments to the fact of the matter it’s as of now not promptly abnormal for drivers.
The innovation in the E-3008 addresses one more step in the right direction for Peugeot, as well.
Dissimilar to certain brands, it hasn’t stuck two screens together in a gleam dark encompass. The 21-inch arrangement is one delightful bended screen, with reflexive designs that seem as though they’ve been lifted from a more costly vehicle.
It’s more usable than before too.
Already, basic assignments like changing the temperature took too many button presses. They’re more straightforward now, in spite of the fact that there are still a few crazy ergonomic choices.
The beginning button and transmission selector, for instance, is wrapped in the driver’s seat up a spot that made them cut the windscreen wiper tail unintentionally.
Sitting underneath the focal piece of the screen is a column of what Peugeot calls I-Switches… which is a line of programmable capability buttons on a thin touchscreen intended to make it simpler to bob through the infotainment framework.
Setting it up requires some investment, yet when you’re there we tracked down in the 308 it’s a slick arrangement.
Extra room front and center is magnificent. Alongside a remote telephone charger on a drifting step beneath the dashboard, there’s a profound receptacle for telephones or wallets (with two USB-C ports) under a collapsing top.
You likewise get cupholders, and a major space underneath the Mercedes-Benz style split armrest.
Back seat space has endured a shot in the progress from the past, boxier vehicle to the ebb and flow fastback. Back headroom isn’t perfect for taller travelers, notwithstanding the reality Peugeot says the fastback configuration was planned to limit the effect of a slanting rooftop on space back there.
Legroom is fine for the class, yet not considerably more. Peugeot affirmed there’s a couple of millimeters less space contrasted with the old vehicle, a choice made to protect boot space underneath the slanting back windscreen.
On the in addition to side, children will see the value in the air vents, USB-C ports, and overlay down focal armrest.
Concerning the boot? The guaranteed 520 liters of room is cutthroat with any semblance of the Hyundai Ioniq 5, and it’s a wide, level space – despite the fact that it is feasible to drop the floor to let loose much more space, with a more articulated lip over which to stack weighty things.
What’s under the hat?
At send off, the E-3008 will be offered universally in Standard Reach FWD pretense. Standard Reach AWD and the Long Reach FWD will continue in 2025.
| Model | Standard Range FWD | Standard Range AWD | Long Range FWD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drivetrain | Single-motor electric | Dual-motor electric | Single-motor electric |
| Battery | 73kWh lithium-ion | 73kWh lithium-ion | 98kWh lithium-ion |
| Power | 157kW | 240kW | 170kW |
| Torque | 343Nm | 509Nm | 343Nm |
| Driven Wheels | Front-wheel drive | All-wheel drive | Front-wheel drive |
| Weight | 2108kg | N/A | N/A |
| Energy efficiency (claimed) | 13.4-14.1kWh/100km | N/A | N/A |
| Energy efficiency (observed) | 16.1kWh/100km | N/A | N/A |
| Claimed range | 525km | 525km | 700km |
| Max DC charge rate | 160kW | 160kW | 160kW |
How does the Peugeot E-3008 drive?
We just drove the base model on the worldwide send off in France. It’s driving the charge for Peugeot, with all-wheel drive and long reach choices to continue in 2025.
With a little ish haggle guiding, it can pause for a minute to change your bits of feedbacks comparative with driving a portion of its opponents.
Whenever you’re focused however, it’s a seriously decent thing to string through close city roads.
In spite of the fact that it comes up short on snort to truly press you back in your seat, the moment force from an electric engine implies the E-3008 feels responsive when you put your foot down at low velocities.
It made surpassing the consistent stream of cyclists partaking in the French Riviera during our test drive more straightforward than it would have been in the old 1.6-liter model.
Peugeot’s regenerative slowing down (which eases back the vehicle, and harvests energy generally lost to intensity and residue under slowing down into the battery) is insightfully tuned, with three modes going from scarcely there to so solid it ought to one-pedal drive.
Despite the fact that it’ll ease back the vehicle to 7.5km/h, even the most forceful choice doesn’t stop it totally.
One of the disadvantages of electric vehicles? They’re weighty. The petroleum 3008 at a bargain in Australia today weighs in at 1429kg, and the PHEV weighs 1840kg.
This E-3008 is multiple tons, and it shows on occasion.
The ride in the reach besting GT is very occupied, even on what are by and large extremely smooth streets in the south of France.
It simply never entirely settles down, with an unpretentious (however perceptible) sound continually recognizable through the seats and directing wheel.
It settles down pleasantly at higher velocities however, murmuring with certainty along at 110km/h.
There’s tiny breeze or outside sound on smooth French motorways, and the versatile voyage control works effectively keeping a hole to the vehicle in front.
Peugeot’s path centring framework doesn’t feel like it needs to tear the wheel none of your concern, and as far as possible advance notice is strangely pleasant. Instead of crying out at you when you float over the breaking point, it satisfies its administrative obligation unobtrusively.
Off the motorway in the lower regions encompassing Pleasant, the streets get tight and twisty as they grass cutter through antiquated rock arrangements.
The speedy directing in the E-3008 isn’t too distant from what you’d expect of a games vehicle, and the GT identification indicates a lively streak, however this isn’t a games vehicle.
It’s best delighted in at seven-tenths; any quicker and it begins to feel exceptionally weighty. Is that prone to disturb the typical purchaser? Likely not.
What do you get?
We don’t have neighborhood specs at this point, however here’s the European grade stroll as an aide.
E-3008 Appeal features:
19-inch composite wheels
Half-leatherette seat trim
Keyless passage and begin
Switching camera
Back stopping sensors
Driven headlights
10-inch computerized instrument bunch
10-inch touchscreen infotainment framework
Remote Apple CarPlay, Android Auto
DAB+ advanced radio
Associated administrations
E-3008 GT adds:
20-inch composite wheels
Pixel Drove headlights
Front stopping sensors
Controlled back end
Warmed front seats
Warmed guiding wheel
Remote telephone charger
Customisable surrounding lighting
21-inch bended ‘All encompassing I-Cockpit’
Customisable infotainment flips
Is the Peugeot E-3008 safe?
The Peugeot E-3008 hasn’t been crash tried by Euro NCAP, meaning it doesn’t as of now have an ANCAP rating.
Standard wellbeing gear across the reach incorporates:
- AEB with Passerby, Cyclist recognition (7-140km/h)
Path takeoff cautioning
Path keep help
Driver consideration checking
Vulnerable side checking
What amount does the Peugeot E-3008 expense to run?
Peugeot moves its reach in Australia with a five-year, limitless kilometer guarantee.
The battery in the is supported by an eight-year, 160,000 kilometer guarantee to 70 percent of its unique limit.
The initial five years of support (required like clockwork or 25,000km) will slow down you a sum of $1522 in the little E-2008, as an aide for what’s in store from the greater E-3008.
BLOG4CARS Take on the Peugeot E-3008
The Peugeot E-3008 looks unique outwardly, and feels exceptional within.
On the off chance that it can figure out how to get bums on seats when the vehicle lands, Peugeot will most likely sell a couple of on the strength of the lodge alone.
It’s a disgrace the back seat hasn’t been worked on contrasted with the active vehicle, given most fair sized SUVs are supposed to perform family responsibility.
A great deal lays on where Peugeot costs the E-3008 in Australia. It’ll go head to head with a heap of opponents offering correspondingly remarkable outside plans (Ioniq 5), seriously convincing driving elements (EV6), and more roomy insides (Model Y).
In the event that it can land a liberally determined E-3008 for comparable cash to those vehicles – around the $70,000-$75,000 mark – it has a battling opportunity of tracking down purchasers past the typical pool of Francophiles.
