Peugeot E-208: boot space, seating & practicality
The electric Peugeot 208 has space for four adults, but the boot is small and there’s no dedicated cable storage
| Length | Width | Height |
Boot volume (seats up/down) |
| 4,055mm | 1,960mm | 1,430mm | 309/1,118 litres |
The Peugeot is reasonably spacious for rear passengers, although the Vauxhall Corsa Electric gives it a run for its money and the MG4 is much roomier. There’s space for a chunky buggy or average-sized dog in the boot, but there’s no dedicated cable storage area, which is a shame, as the cable bag takes up a lot of the available boot space.
Peugeot E-208 interior space, storage & comfort
The Peugeot is roomier than you might expect of a supermini. You'll get four average-sized adults seated comfortably, even if the rear seats do feel a little dark. You can legally seat three on the rear bench thanks to the three inertia-reel belts, but even kids will feel a bit hemmed-in, so best rely on that for short journeys only.
There are two sets of ISOFIX fittings in the 60:40 split-folding rear bench, too, so getting two chunky car seats in should be fine, although other zero-emissions hatchbacks like the MG4 or Nissan Leaf are better for ducking down and reaching in to faff with straps and the like. The E-208’s tapering windowline means you’re at high risk of smacking your head on the roofline, and the door aperture isn’t terribly wide, either.
Boot space
The batteries are located under the floor of the E-208, so happily they don’t eat up any boot space. However you can’t get away from the fact that even in petrol-powered form, the 208 is less roomy than many other superminis at 309 litres.
A Volkswagen Polo has 351 litres and a Renault Clio 391 litres, so the E-208 doesn’t get off to a great start. There’s a big drop to the boot floor of the E-208, over a high load lip, so it’s certainly not as practical as the MG ZS EV or MG4's luggage area either. More disappointing is that there’s no dedicated cable storage space, so if you want to take the cables with you, you lose a lot of luggage capacity to a case full of cables.
Having said that, if you don’t want to take the cables with you, it’s a deep load area that’ll take a chunky buggy with relative ease and is likely to do everything a small family will expect of it. The rear seats fold and split 60:40, but they do leave a step-up in the extended boot floor.
