Peugeot e-5008 single motor review: Big brother’s better

October 17, 2025 George East

The Peugeot e-5008 single motor is the cheapest seven-seat SUV on the electric car market by some margin. Does it make any sense up against its more powerful twin-motor sibling, though?

Cast your mind back around two-and-a-bit decades, and seven-seaters seemed to be everywhere on UK roads. But with the rise of the SUV, they seemingly vanished overnight.

In recent years, it would be churlish to say that the seven-seat family mover has made a full-on, late 1990s/early 2000s-style comeback here in Blighty. It hasn’t. However, in the electric car world, there are several seven-seaters on sale today of note.

Amongst others, these include the Volvo EX90, the Hyundai Ioniq 9, its sister car the Kia EV9, and the oh-so-opulent Mercedes EQS SUV. Yet these are all very expensive – pricing for the entry level Kia and Hyundai hovers around the £65,000 mark, the Volvo begins at £83k, and the EQS won’t get you much change from £130,000.

Fortunately, though, there is a third way to seven-seaterdom. And it’s the Peugeot e-5008 single motor, which is priced from £52,140 for the top-spec GT trim.

Yet as tempting as it may be to plump for this version over the slightly pricier e-5008 Dual Motor, finding the additional funds for the more expensive car is well worth it for a very good reason…

Design, interior, technology

Whether in dual or single motor guise, the Peugeot e-5008 is a handsome thing. It’s different without being obnoxious, and that oh-so-touchable ‘floating’ grille is one of my favourite pieces of car design from this year. Further shoutouts go to the c-pillar on the Toyota C-HR+ and all of the Škoda Elroq Edition 85.

Riding on parent company Stellantis’ electric-only STLA medium platform, the e-5008 single motor is very much related to the Citroen e-C5 Aircross and the Vauxhall Grandland. While the Citroen’s styling may be too bonkers for some and the Grandland’s too bland for others, the e-5008 sits nicely in the middle.

Like its dual-motor stablemate, the e-5008 single motor boasts one of the nicest cabins of any c-segment SUV around today thanks to its i-cockpit loayout. The curved 21-inch infotainment system sat atop the dashboard is crisp with clear, futuristic-style graphics, while the i-Toggles (the smaller screen sitting below the main screen) can be configured with your most-used functions.

For me, this was the wireless Apple CarPlay. Unfortunately on our test car, there wasn’t a single button to turn off all the ADAS as-per the Dual Motor we drove in Germany this year. Nonetheless, switching off the driver assists wasn’t difficult, and was just a few presses away in the infotainment screen.

Of course, the Peugeot e-5008 single motor gets that tiny Peugeot steering wheel, which you look over rather than through. I always forget how much I enjoy this when driving a Peugeot. Given the wheel sits almost in your lap, this piece of ergonomic madcappery shouldn’t work. It does, though. Trust me, I’m a car journalist.

The dashboard remains the e-5008’s signature blend of sharp contours, interesting textures, and matching hues. I normally don’t care about different ‘ambient’ lighting inside a car, but I found myself switching between blue and yellow. A total of eight are available, including other hues of blue, plus a red and a green.

Throughout the cabin, piano black is kept to a minimum, but Stellantis ‘comedy gear selector’ remains – in a flagship costing north of £50K, I wouldn’t have expected it to come with the same silver plastic gear flicker as an e-208. Alas.

Measuring up at just an inch shy of five meters, the Peugeot e-5008 is a big car. No surprises, then, that there’s plenty of space on offer. Fold the second and third row of seats down, and you get a van-like 2,232 litres of space. With the second row in place, there’s still 916 litres of space remaining. With the third row up, this drops boot capacity to 348 litres…

…and on that rear row, unless you have very small people and/or contortionists in your family, don’t expect anyone to be fitting in there comfortably, if at all.

Battery, motor, performance

Back when I drove the all-wheel drive, e-5008 Dual Motor, I very much enjoyed its 310bhp. It carved up the Autobahn breezily, and the power-to-weight ratio suited the 2.3-tonne SUV’s heft very well. Unfortunately that cannot be said for the front-wheel drive single-motor car.

With 207bhp and 184lb ft of torque available, that’s simply not enough for a car of this size. The 0-62mph run is covered in just 0.3 shy of 10 seconds. For context, the much smaller Vauxhall Frontera Electric’s 0-62mph time is 12.9 seconds, and that’s considered one of the slowest cars on sale today.

The single-motor e-5008 doesn’t get the tightened anti-roll bar and stiffened suspension and springs of the Dual Motor, and it shows in the handling. While not uncomfortable like the e-3008 single motor, the bigger single motor Pug eschews the merest suggestion of sporty driving.

There are three driving modes: ‘Eco’, ‘Normal’ and ‘Sport’. The first two are absolutely fine – they allow you cruise about at leisure, suiting the big easy nature of the single motor e-5008 perfectly.

Engage Sport, though, and you’re confronted with buckets of understeer and for reasons I still cannot fathom, oversteer. It’s not hugely pleasant, and threw up ‘Nam-esque flashbacks of Peugeot’s ambitious-but-ill-handling 307 CC World Rally Car.

If you don’t particularly care about performance and swear to French Jesus to avoid Sport mode – and indeed you should – then the single motor e-5008 goes about doing its job just fine.

The single motor has a 311-mile range, while the Dual Motor’s is estimated at 289 miles. Both cars share the same 73kWh battery with a 160kW charging rate. This means that a 20-80% charge is doable within 30 minutes.

Peugeot quotes the e-5008 to have a consumption figure of 3.5 miles per kilowatt hour. I achieved 3.0 miles/kWh, but I attribute that largely to switching between drive modes to get a feel for the car in all conditions.

It is worth noting that as of September this year, all e-5008s now come with standard vehicle-to-load (V2L) functionality. To ensure maximum range, a heat pump for the winter months is available as an optional extra.

Price and specification

Our test car was the top-tier GT model, which comes with two-tone 19-inch ‘Breda’ diamond-cut alloys, and a ‘floating effect’ black rear spoiler. Further changes over the the entry-level Allure model include dynamic front seas with three-stage heating and a manually-adjusted lumbar support.

The Peugeot e-5008 GT single motor also comes with – amongst others – a heated leather steering wheel, a reversing camera with front and rear parking sensors, a hands free tailgate, and dark tinted privacy class. The optional ‘Mistral Black’ seats with contrasting ‘ice’ stitching were an £1,110 option. This brought the price of our car up to £53,240.

On options, it’s worth noting that the car’s standard Ingaro Blue finish isn’t the most flattering. It looks slightly dull and doesn’t accentuate the body’s slashes and contours.

Thankfully, Peugeot offers five other colours to choose from, all of which cost £750 each. Our picks of the bunch here would be ‘Nero Black’, ‘Cumulus Grey’, or ‘Okenite White’. By speccing a nicer paint job, the e-5008 single motor now costs £53,990.

Verdict

And it’s that price that rankles a little, because the Peugeot e-5008 Dual Motor Launch Edition is priced from £58,990. Sure, it’s a £5k difference, but deals can be had and dealers can be knocked down. What’s more, if you’re spending over £50k on a car, then you can most likely go down the back of the sofa to make up the difference for what’s a far better car.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with the e-5008 single motor. It’s good looking, comfortable, and does everything you’d want from a seven-seat SUV. But given the slight premium for the quicker, more comfortable, better handling dual-motor version, it doesn’t make that much sense.