Peugeot iOn

Peugeot iOn is a small battery electric city car built for short urban trips and tight parking rather than for long motorway runs. By our assessment, its real strength was always the compact footprint and the simple electric drivetrain, which made it easy to imagine in crowded streets and low-speed daily use. The trade-off is the usual one for early small EVs: limited range, modest performance, and little room for anything beyond basic city duties. In practice it feels like a second-car solution, with the narrow cabin and small-battery logic that come with that role. Against newer electric hatchbacks it sits as an older, more bare-bones answer, and that age shows in how limited its ambitions are. Peugeot iOn suits drivers who mostly move around town and can live with a narrow, city-first tool rather than a broad all-purpose car.