Peugeot e-308 Review 2025: Price, specs & boot space

The Peugeot e-308 will suit an electric family car buyer who wants to go about their daily motoring with a touch of style and a touch of luxury. It looks really cool inside and out, it has a high-class interior, and you also get lots of standard equipment for your money. Look at the used car market, and there are some fabulous deals to be had, too.

The Peugeot e-308 comes with just one powertrain, so there’s pretty much no choice to be made on that score. When it comes to choosing between Allure and GT trim levels, we’d stick with Allure. It comes with plenty of luxury kit, and GT trim doesn’t get much more, yet is quite a bit more expensive.

The car that’s most like the Peugeot E-308 is the Vauxhall Astra Electric. That’s because the two cars share the same platform, batteries, motors and pretty much everything else, courtesy of them both being built by huge manufacturing conglomerate, Stellantis.

In terms of other all-electric family hatchback rivals, the Volkswagen ID.3 will spring to most minds, as will the Cupra Born. Extend your search into SUV-esque crossover models, meanwhile, and you’ll choose from far more models including the Renault Megane E-Tech, Honda e:Ny1, Ford Explorer, Citroen e-C4, and many more.

The E-308’s interior is just as stylish and plush-feeling as we’ve come to expect from modern Peugeots. The big glossy-looking screens immediately lend things a sophisticated feel, and the variety of shapes, colours and textures on show make for an environment that feels modern and cool. Many of the materials have a high-end finish as well, although look outside of your direct eye line, and you will spot a few surfaces that aren’t of such a high standard. The way everything is assembled feels very solid, too.

All versions of the Peugeot e-308 get a 10.0-inch digital instrument screen behind the steering wheel, along with a 10.0-inch central touchscreen that supports Bluetooth, DAB, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and voice recognition. You also get six speakers and USB ports front and rear.

Upgrade from Allure trim to GT trim, and you also get connected 3D TomTom navigation, plus i-Toggle, which constitutes a second narrow touchscreen strip below the regular one that brings customisable shortcuts.

Either way, the system isn’t too difficult to navigate, with reasonably logical menus and a fairly intuitive interface. We’d prefer physical air-con controls rather than these being integrated into the touchscreen, but these are becoming less and less common these days. What might annoy you most about the system, though, is that some of the animations that occur between screen transitions take an annoyingly long time, and the screen sensitivity isn’t great, so your instruction isn’t always registered at the first attempt.

It’s also a little surprising that wireless smartphone charging is an optional extra across the range, rather than being standard on the top trim.

The e-308 does an adequate job in this area, but no more than that. There’s enough headroom and legroom for a pair of six-foot adults to sit in the Peugeot e-308’s rear seats fairly comfortably. They won’t have room to stretch out, though, and several rival hatchbacks provide more generous room, both above passengers, and in front of them. Small rear door openings mean you feel slightly impeded when getting in and out, too.

The footwells feel quite cramped as well, so you won’t be able to move your feet around too much once you’re in, and things feel extra cramped on that score when a third person sits in the middle seat because they have to sit with their feet either side of a hump in the centre of the floor, robbing those either side of a bit more foot space. Not that you’ll want to travel like this too often, mind, because the middle seat is narrower than the outer ones, and the cabin is a bit too narrow for everyone to sit comfortably.

The Peugeot e-308’s boot space stands at 361 litres, which is the same as in the PHEV version of the 308, but down on the combustion-engined version’s 412 litres, and it sits a little below the class average. There are 60/40 split-folding rear seats to open up more cargo-carrying capacity, but when they drop, they lie at a slight angle and don’t sit quite flush with the boot floor, so the extended load bay you get is both stepped and sloped.

The Peugeot e-308’s front-mounted electric motor is powered by a 54kWh lithium-ion battery. It’s capable of delivering a maximum of 156PS of power and 270Nm of torque, and under optimum conditions, it’ll see off the 0-62mph dash in 9.8 seconds.

For all that to happen, though, you need to select Power mode with the drive mode switch on the centre console. When you start the car, it defaults to Normal mode, which gives you a little less in the way of power and torque: 136PS and 250Nm, respectively. This gives you a few extra miles of range. For a few more still, you can dial things back even further by selecting Eco mode, which gives you 109PS and 220Nm and limits the operation of the heating and climate control.

As the 0-62mph time would suggest, the car never feels desperately fast even in its punchiest mode. Pickup is eager off the mark, but once you’re moving, your pace is unfurled gradually rather than all at once. In actual fact, you’ll notice very little difference in sensation between Power and Normal modes.

There’s a more marked difference with Eco mode, where performance feels that bit more strangled, but it’s fine for most driving situations and it never feels unnervingly underpowered, so you don’t feel like you're holding other road users up.

What never goes away, regardless of the mode you select, is the Peugeot e-308’s rather sloppy throttle response. Push the Go pedal, and there’s always a frustrating gap of around half a second or so before the car responds to your request.

The Peugeot e-308 has two levels of regenerative braking. In its normal setting, there’s hardly any, so you can coast along like you would in a conventionally powered car. If you select B-mode by pushing the button on the drive selector, it becomes much more pronounced, although not strong enough to constitute the whole one-pedal driving experience that so many electric car manufacturers bang on about. It’s all pretty easy to modulate, though.

According to official WLTP figures, the Peugeot e-308 will do ‘up to 257 miles’ on a single charge. You’ll do very well to match that in the real world, though, especially in cold weather or if you’re spending lots of time on the motorway. We did around 90 miles on a chilly January day, around half of which were motorway miles, and our battery level dropped from 85% to 27%, which suggests a real-world range of about 155 miles under these circumstances.

The Peugeot e-308 does a good job in this area. In some Stellantis-built EVs, the motor can make a bizarre-sounding whine as you manoeuvre at low speeds, but we detected none of that in the e-308, and it remains almost silent at all speeds. Wind- and road noise are also well suppressed at motorway speeds, so this is generally a quiet and relaxing car to bimble around in.

The Peugeot e-308 is different to most other versions of the 308 in that all versions get adaptive cruise control with stop-and-go function as standard. You also get other preventative driving aids including autonomous emergency braking, lane keeping assist, speed limit recognition, driver attention warning, and high beam assist headlights. 

GT replaces these lights with full matrix adaptive LED headlights, along with LED rear lights that do a little dance for you when you unlock the car. You also get emergency call assistance.

The 308 was crash-tested by Euro NCAP in 2022, when it achieved four out of five stars.

Have a look at our go-to source of reliability data, the HonestJohn.co.uk Satisfaction Index, which is put together by our excellent sister website, and it makes for fairly grim reading. Peugeot was voted as the second least reliable manufacturer in the whole study, and the last-generation 3008 SUV - which is closely mechanically related to the contemporary 308 hatchback - was voted as the second least reliable model in the entire study.

Peugeot’s warranty is no great shakes, either, with the bog-standard three-year, 60,000-mile cover being the least any new car buyer should expect these days. The Peugeot e-308’s battery, meanwhile, is protected by eight-year, 100,000-mile cover, which will result in complementary replacement or repair of the battery if it falls below 70% of its original capacity within the warranty period.

Hopefully yo,u can take solace from the fact that, in theory at least, electric cars are likely to be more reliable than their combustion-engined counterparts because they have far fewer moving parts. That’s also why the Peugeot e-308’s service intervals are relatively broad at every two years or 16,000 miles.

Nice and simple, this. Go for an Allure-spec car, and it’ll sit in insurance group 24. Go for a GT, or get yourself a First Edition from the used car market, and it’ll sit in group 25. There are 50 insurance groups, with group 1 cars being the cheapest to insure, and group 50 cars being the most expensive. That should prepare you for fair-to-middling premiums on the Peugeot e-308.

For a long time, drivers haven't had to pay a penny in Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) on electric cars. The rules are changing from April 2025, though, when the Exchequer will scrap VED exemption for EVs, meaning that electric cars will be liable for the same road tax costs as regular combustion-engined cars. That’s charged at £190 per year at the time of writing, but we’d be very surprised if that didn’t go up in as well. Good luck, everyone.

The E-308 comes in two trim levels. The lower-grade one is called Allure, but even that comes with plenty. The standard roster includes 18-inch alloy wheels, a chromed grille, rear privacy glass, electric front- and rear windows, cruise control, automatic air-conditioning, an electric parking brake, a heated steering wheel, a 180-degree reversing camera, part-leather upholstery, manual seat adjustment, and heated front seats.

GT trim adds sportier body styling, chequered chrome grille finish, aluminium door sills, keyless entry, a leather steering wheel, ambient lighting, carpet mats, and front parking sensors. Initially, there was also a high-spec First Edition trim, but this has since been discontinued.