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By Jonathan Crouch

Peugeot's enhanced E-Boxer brings offers a much improved EV drivetrain to suit businesses wanting a large electric van. Jonathan Crouch reports.

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Peugeot's largest EV van is this one, the E-Boxer. And in this usefully updated form, it's well worth a second look because it now has a considerably larger battery and a much more powerful electric motor. Peugeot's also given this LCV a sharper look and a more modern interior. Plus it can take heavier loads too.

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Peugeot was certainly quick to market with this EV version of its large LCV, the Boxer. That electric model was first introduced in 2020, but never initially sold in very large numbers because of its high price, feeble pulling power and restricted EV range. Forget about all of that now because this revised version, introduced early in 2024, is much better, vastly improved in all of these key areas. It now has the same 110kWh powertrain as is also used by the Citroen e-Relay, the Vauxhall Movano Electric, the Fiat E-Ducato and the Toyota Proace Max Electric. And much the same engineering. So why should you choose the Peugeot version? Let's see.

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The big news with this updated E-Boxer is its larger 110kWh battery, which takes you 261 miles between charges (up from 154 miles with the old 75kWh model), though that'll drop a bit if you've a full load out back. Almost equally important is the installation of a gutsier 270hp electric motor to drive the front wheels (up from just 122hp before), which has boosted pulling power from the previous feeble 260Nm to a much more usable 410Nm. There are strange-looking push-button controls for the single-speed gearbox, but the starting procedure's straightforward. Unlike other EV vans, the surge of power you get at the wheel of this one is rather gradual. The performance and range of this improved E-Boxer can be optimised depending on conditions thanks to three driving modes, and features paddles located just behind the steering wheel that activate four levels of regenerative deceleration. The steering's quite a old-fashioned set-up that's quite heavy at low speeds, but lightens up at faster ones. Whatever E-Boxer variant you select, around town, this van can make light work of tricky urban situations; the 'L3H2' variant offers a relatively tight 14.14m turning circle between kerbs.

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