2024 Peugeot E-3008 review: How to take on Tesla 

This is the first car to use the Stellantis Group’s all-new EV platform and as a result could scarcely be more important. In time it will also find its way into enormous numbers of various Vauxhall, Fiat, DS and Alfa Romeo cars, and who knows how many others from the portfolio.

And I think this first application will be hard to beat. I’m not going to harp on about the fact that it’s heavy and unengaging to drive, because these kinds of car are never anything else. Think of it instead as simply one of the most pleasant ways yet devised of getting from one place to the next in an EV costing this kind of money.

The interior is spacious, beautiful and startlingly luxurious for anyone who still thinks of Peugeot cabins as refuges for coarse-grained hard plastics. Better, Peugeot has seen sense and binned the awful ‘i-Cockpit’ which placed the instruments just where they couldn’t be seen behind the rim of a tiny steering wheel, and replaced it with a great glassy expanse of information across the dash. It also includes shortcut ‘toggles’ which can be programmed to do whatever you damn well want, removing the need to go free-diving through layers of menus just to stop it bonging at you.

Peugeot is being punchy asking what is, after all, bottom-end Tesla Model Y money for this car and I’d probably wait for the long-range version, but it’s still an impressive debut from a company appearing to be emerging from years of substandard, unappealing product. AF

Peugeot e-3008 GT

Price £45,850
Engine Front electric motor, 73kWh battery
Power 207bhp
Torque 251lb ft
Weight 2114kg
Power to weight 98bhp per tonne
Transmission Single speed, front-wheel drive
0-60mph 8.7sec
Top speed 105mph
Range 326 miles (WLTP)
CO2 0g/km
Verdict Stellantis trailblazer is a winner.