Peugeot unveiled its Inception concept, a lethal-looking electric vehicle with sharp edges and brutalist styling. The prototype, which was revealed at CES this week, will serve as inspiration for a variety of future EVs that will begin shipping to customers in 2025.
Stellantis, which owns Peugeot, had a busy CES schedule this year, featuring a Chrysler cockpit idea and a battery-electric Ram 1500 truck that borrows heavily from the muscle car world. With its rectangular steering wheel, hyper-minimal dashboard, and color-shifting interior, the Peugeot Inception was possibly the most CES-y of all the announcements. For some reason, there’s even a gadget inside the automobile dubbed “the Halo Cluster” with a 360-degree screen.
The Peugeot Inception will be built on the STLA Large platform, which is a bigger version of Stellantis’ modular EV platforms. (If you’re curious, there’s also an STLA Small, STLA Medium, and STLA Frame.)
The Inception is 16.4 feet (5 metres) long but only 4.39 (1.34 metres) tall. Because of its 800-volt design, it can add up to 93 miles (150 kilometres) of range in just five minutes of charging. It too has a 100kWh battery, although Peugeot says that it can go 497 miles (800 kilometres) on a single charge.
My car’s battery was replaced following the worldwide recall procedure at 65k kilometres. I believe the car should run good till 2.2L km at the very least, but we’ll see.
I feel the India-spec vehicle lacked several functions, such as ADAS and sim connection. I don’t believe we have the gear to support BlueLink, which is unfortunate.
My mother is 5’7″ tall “She’s “fine” in the backseats. Not as comfy as our last car, a Tata Hexa, but not awful either. At 5’10 “Long distance travel may be quite unpleasant. You may consider the MG ZS EV, which has AC vents and more legroom.
Another issue I failed to mention was that the auxiliary battery died on Sunday when I was in Mumbai. Fortunately, one of my pals had a jumper wire on hand, so we had to jump-start a highly contemporary EV from an 80s Mercedes. Indeed, it’s hilarious.
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