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By Jonathan Crouch

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Conventional family hatchbacks that are also full-EVs are relatively thin on the ground, but Peugeot's E-308 hopes to set more of a trend for them, especially in this usefully updated form with a longer-ranging battery. As before, it comes in hatch and estate forms and aims to establish some fresh standards for the kind of car a family EV should be.

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Something we haven't seen much in the current explosion of full-electric compact cars are EV versions of conventional family hatchbacks. True, if you're looking at either a Volkswagen ID.3 or a Kia EV3, that's essentially what you've got, but both those manufacturers pretend those cars are Crossovers. Here is something much more straightforward, the Peugeot E-308. In terms of conventional EV family hatches, at its launch in 2022 this was the first one we'd seen since the Volkswagen e-Golf was discontinued in 2019. Unlike that car, there's more than one body style, an SW estate offered as well as a 5-door hatch. And developed alongside this model with exactly the same 54kWh battery and powertrain are full-electric versions of its close Stellantis Group cousin, the Vauxhall Astra. This 308 was the first of the two cars to market and in this improved form continues alongside the pricier 308 Plug-in Hybrid model for those wanting to make a more eco-minded choice in this segment.