Peugeot E-308 SW review

There are three trims to choose from with the electric 308 estate: Allure, GT and GT Premium.

The Allure comes reasonably well equipped as standard: you get 18in alloys, a 10in touchscreen infotainment with Apple and Android connectivity, a rear parking camera and auto air con, plus there’s a Peugeot app you can connect your car to so that you can set remote charging times and remember where you’ve parked, etc. Prices start at £32,195, and you'll currently get £1,500 from the UK government to help pay for it. Indeed, you get that on all E-308 hatches and estates.

Upgrade to the GT model - for precisely £2,000 - and you get the 3D digital dash display, adaptive cruise control, ambient interior lighting, matrix LED headlights and some fancier bits of trim around the car. Including the new illuminated grille vanes and Peugeot badge at the front, even if you're unlikely to be tailgating other cars in a humble plug-in estate to properly show them off.

GT Premium is a further £1,800 and adds a heated wheel, heated and massaging front seats, 360-degree parking camera system and a whole host of extra drive assist tech, including some semi-autonomous cruise control functionality in crummy traffic. It also gets a heat pump as standard; that’s a £400 option on the trims below.

Helping win over EV newbies (or sceptics) is the availability of a ‘Free2Move’ charge pass, a partnership with Octopus which provides simple one-tap access to over half a million chargers across Europe. Nevertheless, you’ll get the most out of EV ownership if you can plug in at home and avoid the pricey public charging network as much as possible.

Another improvement since the E-308’s launch concerns warranty cover, the eight-year/100,000-mile period of the battery now applied to the whole car thanks to the Peugeot Care scheme. They claim the broadest coverage of any European brand.