Cheaper version of electric Peugeot e-208 could be on the way

The Peugeot e-208 could soon obtain a reduce selection variant with a lesser price tag, perhaps dropping the electric supermini’s base-price below £22,000. The French brand is actively thinking of buyer demand and could employ the update in time for the e-208’s mid-cycle facelift.

Peugeot’s brand supervisor for electric vehicles, Anne-Lise Richards, instructed our sister title, DrivingElectric: “The much more cozy customers become with EVs, the much less we will require to reassure them about selection.

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“Currently, customers are not expressing that the e-208 is way too expensive, but at one particular issue probably we will require a much more cost-effective possibility and we could always reach a lesser battery. The only detail is introducing range in the vegetation – and we require to be sure there is a require from the customers.”

From an engineering standpoint, providing a selection of battery outputs for an electric car or truck is fairly effortless. In Peugeot’s scenario, it would be a uncomplicated undertaking of taking away cells from the e-208’s current 50kWh unit till the desired output is obtained.

The problem is one particular of economics. Incorporating a preference of battery outputs can complicate an electric car’s production course of action, as very well as raise its production costs – both equally of which will derail the e-208’s expansion undertaking if the organization scenario isn’t sound.

For now, the Peugeot e-208 is only offered with a 50kWh battery pack, which delivers a claimed maximum selection of 211 miles. It is probably that Peugeot’s reduce-selection model will get rid of close to 25 per cent of its battery potential, dropping the system’s output to close to 37kWh and providing a new maximum selection of roughly 150 miles.

This reduce selection, coupled with a possible starting up price of £22,000, would make the e-208 a larger different for the likes of the Volkswagen e-up! and other premium electric metropolis cars, when retaining the car’s situation alongside premium, lower-selection EVs of a related measurement these as the BMW i3 and MINI Electric powered.

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