The Peugeot Inception idea is an EV knife aimed straight on the future

French automaker Peugeot revealed its Inception idea, a lethal wanting electrical automobile that’s all sharp angles and brutalist designs. The idea, which was announced at CES this week, will encourage a lineup of future EVs that can begin making their strategy to prospects in 2025.

Stellantis, which owns Peugeot, had a heavy docket at this 12 months’s CES, together with a Chrysler cockpit idea and a battery-electric Ram 1500 truck that borrows so much from the world of muscle automobiles. But the Peugeot Inception was arguably essentially the most CES-y of all of the bulletins, with its rectangular steering wheel, hyper-minimal dashboard, and color-shifting inside. There’s even a tool contained in the automobile known as “the Halo Cluster” with a 360-degree display screen, for some motive.

[Slaps Halo Cluster] That’s some good CES, child!

Peugeot says the Inception will journey on high of the STLA Large platform, which is (you guessed it) a bigger model of Stellantis’ modular EV platforms. (There’s additionally an STLA Small, STLA Medium, and STLA Frame, in case you had been questioning.)

The Inception measures 16.4 ft (5 meters) lengthy however simply 4.39 (1.34 m) tall. Its 800-volt structure means it could actually add as much as 93 miles (150 km) of vary in simply 5 minutes of charging. It’s additionally packing a 100kWh battery, however Peugeot claims it could actually attain 497 miles (800 kilometers) of vary on a single cost. (EPA scores are more likely to be much less.) That’s equal to “the distance from Paris to Marseille or Brussels to Berlin” on a single cost, the automaker boasts. That’s très bien in my e book.

If the Inception seems to be quick, that’s as a result of it’s. A dual-motor all-wheel drive setup provides the idea 680 horsepower (500kW) of giddyup and a zero to 62mph (100km/h) acceleration in lower than three seconds.

The next-generation i-Cockpit encompasses a new Hypersquare management system, which can seize the award for “most ridiculous-sounding and unnecessary brand names.” (Sorry, Hyperscreen.) The Hypersquare is principally Peugeot’s infotainment display screen the place you possibly can management mundane issues like navigation and media whereas additionally serving because the precise steering wheel (steering rectangle?) for the entire car.

The Hyperquare operates by way of a steer-by-wire system, the place there’s no mechanical connection between the steering column and the wheels. But the Hyperscreen may also retract when the car transitions to completely autonomous driving, changed by a big panoramic display screen that rises up out of the ground.

There are plenty of different fascinating concepts ping-ponging round inside this idea, together with a window glaze utilized by NASA astronauts for his or her visors and a “tech bar” that runs throughout the skin of the door to speak messages to approaching passengers.

Despite having the looks of a lethal weapon, Peugeot says it desires the Inception to be “user-friendly” and is in the end meant to ship an “optimistic” message about the way forward for the model. Just watch your fingers round these edges.