Peugeot e-3008

Electric family SUV gains four-wheel drive and tweaks to its suspension and steering in its most powerful guise On sale Summer Price from £53,000 (est)

- OLIVER YOUNG

DUMBO MAY BE an elephant, but (through the power of animation) he can fly. And while electric SUVs sometimes seem elephantine, a good few of them can move with remarkable pace. Could the new Peugeot e-3008 Dual Motor be a new member of that club?

Well, the words 'Dual Motor' tend to signify that an electric SUV can get a shift on. The Polestar 4 Long Range Dual Motor, for instance, dispatches 0-62mph in just 3.8sec. And as with that car, the e-3008 Dual Motor has one motor to drive the front wheels and another for the rears. That endows it with a sporty-sounding 321bhp total output - around 100bhp more than the front-wheel-drive, single-motor e-3008 can muster.

Still, the simple question is 'Does the Dual Motor feel quick?' Well, compared with any other e-3008 or its petrol-engined 3008 brethren, yes it does; switch into Sport mode, plant your right foot and you're pinned back in your seat quite satisfyingly as the 0-62mph sprint ticks by in just 6.0sec.

It turns out, though, that the e-3008 carries more junk in its trunk than many rivals; at almost 2.3 tonnes, it's heavier than the similarly powerful Kia EV6 AWD and Tesla Model Y Long Range AWD, both of which feel (and are) a good deal quicker.