• Plenty of boot space
• Third row is a little tight for adults
• Second row is quite modular

How much space is there?

The Peugeot e-5008 is a generous five-seater. Space in the second row is plentiful – and the missing central tunnel means whoever’s relegated to the middle seat won’t be fighting those either side for foot space. The floor is quite high because of the battery beneath it, so your thighs will hover above the seat squab if you’re tall, but even then you should still be able to sit quite comfortably.

The third seating row is quite cramped for adults, though. You can alleviate that slightly by sliding the second row forward – but then you’re moving the problem around the cabin by robbing space from those ahead. That means, rather than having three comfortable passengers and two squished ones, you’ll end up with five mildly irritated ones.

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Peugeot does deserve some praise for the e-5008’s doors, however. They’re big and they open wide which makes it easy to load passengers into the rear once you’ve flipped the second seating row forwards.

Still, if you need an electric car that can transport seven adults in comfort, you’ll be better served by the Kia EV9 or Volkswagen ID. Buzz. Yes, they’re more expensive, but they’re far bigger and have more comfortable seats everywhere. It’s worth noting that the Buzz (in regular guise), is slightly shorter than the e-5008.

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Alternatively, if you can’t stretch your budget that far, the stripped-back, nine-seat version of the Ford e-Transit Custom van will give you all the space you’ll ever need (and more) plus around £2,000 change to spend on a home charging setup.

Boot space and storage

The new e-5008’s boot is longer and larger than the old 5008’s regardless of how many seats you’re using. You get 348 litres of space with all three rows in place, 916 if you fold the third row flat and 2,232 litres once the second row is stowed. The boot of the Dual Motor is slightly smaller because of the electric motor on its rear axle, but it’s still not what you’d call cramped.

In fairness, those first two figures are more than you get from the rear of Kia EV9 or a Volkswagen ID. Buzz. The Kia offers 333 litres with all seven seats in place and 828 litres with the third row stowed. The Volkswagen, meanwhile, only has 306 litres behind the rearmost seats.

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Saying that, the cheapest rear-wheel drive EV9 Air has an extra 90-litre storage compartment under the bonnet that Peugeot does without. And if you take the rearmost seats out of the Buzz, you’re left with a space big enough to hold a couple of mountain bikes. If you’re the lifestyle-y sort, the Buzz is probably the one to go for. But if you just need a car that’s good at carrying shopping, the E-5008 will get the job done fine.

Is it easy to park?

Relatively. You get a rear-view camera and rear parking sensors as standard, meaning you’ve no excuse for reversing into a bollard. Front parking sensors are added to the GT trim, though we reckon they should be included as standard.

Plus, you can specify a 360-degree camera as an optional extra. This is a big car, though – and squeezing it into a standard-size car park is quite difficult. Once parked, you also might struggle to unload your kids.

Safety

• Four-star Euro NCAP rating
• But it has plenty of safety tech
• Lower safety assist rating docked its score

Though the e-5008 wasn’t initially tested by Euro NCAP at its launch in 2024, it has since been assessed and score a four-star safety rating, which on paper seems quite average for a large family car.

Positively, however, its best category performance was for child occupant protection (85%), followed by adult occupant (82%). What let the score down mainly was its 62% rating in the Safety Assist category, with the Peugeot slammed for not having a rear occupant detection system in the rear seats and also for its driver status monitoring system not being able to see if a driver is distracted. Other cars do this via cameras, though from experience these systems are highly irritating, and we don’t see as a disadvantage that the e-5008 doesn’t have it.

Peugeot’s standard safety kit includes curtain airbags for the first, second and third rows, along with automatic emergency braking, lane assist and a post-collision braking system that helps to prevent secondary accidents.

For something with seven seats, though, it isn’t very good at carrying lots of children. It only has enough Isofix mount for two child seats, compared to four in the Kia EV9 and five in the plusher Ford e-Tourneo Custom.