Peugeot restyles its 2008 SUV, with a lot of new features for the electric version.
Despite a more powerful engine, the new lion SUV promises optimized autonomy. Here is the new Peugeot e-2008 SUV.
Electric Peugeot 2008, more style, more power… and more autonomy?
Marketed for a little less than four years now, the small Peugeot 2008 SUV has found its audience, with more than 700,000 copies leaving the production plants. A real success for the lion brand, which was also able to count on the electric version, the e-2008, to boost sales.
Since 2019, 75,000 Peugeot e-2008s have found buyers. In 2022, this same e-2008 represented (according to Peugeot) just under 17.5% of total sales, “ placing it on the podium of European B-segment electric SUV sales. »
The new version to come this summer promises a new look, but also more performance, and even increased autonomy!
A new version that goes further!
As for the look, the new Peugeot 2008 SUV is equipped with a new front face endowed not only with the new Peugeot logo, but also with the light signature now specific to the brand. The back is also renewed, with LEDs that reinterpret the iconic three claws of the French lion.
But THE great novelty with regard to the Peugeot e-2008 is the presence of an all-new electric motor (as on the e-308 and e-208) whose maximum power increases by 15%, from 100 kW/136 hp to 115 kW/156 hp. On the battery side, Peugeot has also revised things upwards, with a 54 kWh block here, compared to 50 kWh for the previous model.
The manufacturer promises to have carried out a ” important work on efficiency, in order to reconcile this increase in performance with better autonomy. And if the previous Peugeot e-2008 had a range of 345 km, this 2023 version can boast of exceeding (just) 400 km, with 406 km announced by Peugeot.
On the charging side, the new Peugeot e-2008 SUV will be supplied as standard with a 7.4 kW single-phase charger and the customer can, as an option, opt for an 11 kW three-phase charger.
In fact, the estimated 20% to 80% charging times are 30 min from a public terminal (100 kW), 4 h 40 from a Wall Box (7.4 kW) and 11 h 10 from a socket. reinforced (3.2 kW).
The availability of this new Peugeot 2008 range is scheduled for this summer, with production based in Vigo, Spain.
Source : Caradisiac
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