New Peugeot 3008 could have a 400-mile-plus electric range

Peugeot’s mother or father firm, PSA, has unveiled a new devoted electric auto platform that will make its debut under the third-generation Peugeot 3008. The French brand’s newest C-section crossover will get there in three years’ time – and it looks set to be a transformative auto for the firm.

The new platform, identified as eVMP, will no for a longer time help PSA’s line-up of entirely combustion-run choices. Instead, it will concentration on the Group’s selection of pure-electric, hybrid and plug-in hybrid powertrains – with the flagship variant furnishing the potential for an all-electric array of 404 miles.

The eVMP platform is a closely revised version of PSA’s existing EMP2 architecture, which Peugeot states will assist hold the 3008’s growth prices to a bare minimum. The underpinnings will be out there with either front- or four-wheel push and a choice of battery packs, ranging in size between 60kWh and 100kWh. 

Peugeot has promised a pure-electric array of between 249 and 404 miles, relying on the battery size picked. There’ll be a wide array of motor configurations, too, ranging from a 134bhp device in the entry-amount, front-wheel-push 3008, suitable up to a 335bhp four-wheel-push powertrain in the flagship variant.

By basing the 3008’s electric underpinnings on the existing EMP2 platform, Peugeot states it will be equipped to retain the flexibility of a plug-in hybrid powertrain in the crossover’s array – something that its sister brand Citroen simply cannot control with the recently discovered C4, as it is based on the smaller sized, far more EV-focussed CMP platform.

Regardless of the simple fact that the new Citroen C4 retains PSA’s array of combustion engines, the eVMP platform destined for the comparatively sized Peugeot 3008 is expected to ditch them absolutely. Even so, there need to be a array of 48-volt gentle-hybrids to pick from, which will be produced in tandem with the Belgian firm, Punch Powertrain.

Details are nevertheless scarce about the plug-in hybrid powertrain, while – the existing design just lately been given a 296bhp 1.six-litre device with thirteen.2kWh battery pack and a utmost claimed electric array of 40 miles, but this could easily be updated for the following-generation design.

The eVMP underpinnings will have a wide reach, too. PSA states the platform will at some point look under all of the Groupe’s C- and D-section saloons and SUV’s, relying on the location – which indicates it is all but particular to look under the following-generation 5008 SUV.

New 2023 Peugeot 3008: style and design and sector

Not long ago-departed Peugeot chief designer Gilles Vidal advised Vehicle Express that the firm has uncovered about the getting practices of its existing customers, furnishing enough of a enterprise scenario to thrust the 3008 toward the far more sporting stop of the sector, although supplying an enhanced version of the 5008 for all those in need of bigger practicality.

Vidal claimed: “What we want to provide to the sector in the upcoming is ideas that go all the way to what they stand for. If we chat about the 3008, it is not purchased by households. It is a couple who didn’t have children yet or a couple who don’t have their children any longer – either stop of the spectrum, basically.”

Our exclusive pictures clearly show how the 3008 could evolve into a sleeker coupé shape for its following generation. The 3008 is all but particular to continue being a five-doorway, though Vidal’s staff of designers are probable to engage in with the roofline and sacrifice a minor rear cabin house to give the auto a chunkier, far more aggressive stance.

The styling alternatives are not too far eliminated from all those utilized by Land Rover with the Selection Rover Evoque. If applied, Peugeot’s selections would shift the 3008 firmly out of the relatives SUV sector, which is occupied by the likes of the Nissan Qashqai and Ford Kuga.

PSA’s fiscal placement

PSA was one of the number of suppliers that managed to distinct a earnings in the very first quarter of 2020, regardless of the problematic sector brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The firm manufactured €595 million (around £540 million) which, regardless of staying €1.23 billion down on the exact period in 2019, managed to hold the firm in the black – not like Mitsubishi, for example, who’s fiscal difficulties have forced the business out of the British isles.

PSA’s comparably thriving very first quarter indicates the firm is in a much better placement to provide its following-generation products, this kind of as the Peugeot 3008, to the British isles sector. The business has previously seen income accomplishment in 2020 with its existing electrified line-up, taking pleasure in a ten percent maximize in orders for the likes of the all-new Citroen C4 and the C5 Aircross Hybrid.

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