Peugeot 098e May 2026

Léa climbed in. The interior smelled of recycled ocean plastics and flax fiber. No leather. No painted plastics. Just functional, repairable, modular.

They rolled out onto the closed circuit at Mortefontaine. Malik punched the accelerator — 0 to 100 km/h in 8.1 seconds. Nothing thrilling, but enough. The real test was range: 450 km from a 35 kWh pack. Half the battery size of a Tesla Model 3. peugeot 098e

She overrode the system, rerouted power through redundant pathways she’d coded the night before. The 098E stuttered, then smoothed out. Malik glanced at her. “You just rewrote the BMS live?” Léa climbed in

“That’s why they pay me the medium bucks.” No painted plastics

“Again,” Léa muttered. The same issue that had killed the 097D prototype.

Back at the hangar, the Peugeot design director was waiting. “Well?”