The fully-electric Peugeot 408 and 5008 will arrive later this year

The fully electric versions of the 5008 SUV and the 408... thing, will arrive later this year, Peugeot confirmed this week.

At the company's recent 'brand day' - which, much to TopGear.com's dismay did not involve 306 GTIs lift-off oversteering around a pack of lions - Peugeot said both its hybrid e-408 and e-5008 cars would spawn full BEV variants.

Frankly, details are a bit short on the new all-electric executive saloon and seven-seater SUV. We're told the e-5008 will arrive in August, e-408 in September. Peugeot said the inclusion of these two means the number of its cars filled and powered solely by batteries rises to 12.

The brand has also strayed into Hyundai territory, introducing an eight-year Allure Care package for the e-3008. This optional extended warranty will cover the electric motor, charger and powertrain for up to 99,400 miles (100,000kms), in addition to the eight-year battery warranty that's already offered.

Elsewhere, it said its partnership with Free2Move Charge puts any of its EV models in a 600,000-charger-strong network that – according to Peugeot – is three times the size of the Tesla supercharger one (in Europe, at least).

There are some PICG-style discounts with the Peugeot Switch Grant too, and some fancy credit deals that might just help balance the household budget books. It's even got an answer for the environmental concerns, with a targeted environmental campaign for recycling and reusing and keeping things in a ‘circular economy’. And if that wasn't enough, it's donating vans to charity, too. A definitive A+ for effort.

Of course, it was only a matter of time after sibling brand DS announced its ChatGPT integration pilot that we'd see adoption by other Stellantis brands. Peugeot's now confirmed the AI-based feature – enhancing navigation, telling kids' stories and responding to questions like a digital assistant – will be going into all new models, including those two new ones we would have liked to learn more about.

Guess we'll have to wait. Meanwhile, what do you think about Peugeot's news?