Peugeot Inception Concept

Concept Cars, News 11 Jan 2023
Peugeot Inception Concept

At CES 2023 PEUGEOT has unveiled the fully electric Inception Concept, a technology and design showcase featuring a distinctive interior and a design language that will be adopted on production models from 2025.


Based on the STLA Large platform, the fully electric Inception Concept is a 5 meter long sedan with a low (1.34m) silhouette, powered by a 100kWh battery providing a range of 497 miles.

Peugeot Inception Concept

The drivetrain features two electric motors, producing almost 680hp and accelerates from 0-62mph in under three seconds.

The model also features 800V technology, enabling it to add 93 miles of range in just five minutes, and is capable of wireless induction charging.

Design

The Peugeot Inception Concept introduces a new, simpler and more refined design language for the brand, which will be introduced on future models from 2025.

Peugeot Inception Concept

At the front, it features an all-new light signature incorporating Peugeot’s distinctive claw design, which is merged with the front grille to create a single object that also houses the sensors. This is made up of a single piece of glass with the logo in the centre, magnified by the 3D luminescent effect.

Peugeot Inception Concept

A Tech Bar runs horizontally through the door layer. This flush screen emits different messages to the outside of the car when the driver and passengers approach it.

Peugeot Inception Concept

The artificial intelligence equipped on the Inception Concept makes it possible to recognise the driver in order to set up the comfort settings (seat posture, temperature, driving mode and multimedia preferences) desired by each occupant. In addition, the Tech Bar also displays the battery charge level and houses many sensors and radars, leaving the bodywork completely smooth.

The car incorporates 7.25m2 of glazing to create a glass capsule for the passenger compartment that plunges to the driver and front passenger’s feet.

Peugeot Inception Concept

All the glazing (windscreen, side windows and quarter windows) is made from glass designed for architecture, which retains its thermal qualities and benefits from a multi-chrome treatment (treatment with metal oxides), a process initially used for the visors of astronauts’ helmets by NASA.

Peugeot Inception Concept Design Headlights

Completing the car’s unique design is an exclusive body colour, which highlights the shapes in the bodywork and interacts, like the glazing, by tinting according to the external environment. The paint is single-coated, meaning far less energy is consumed during its application.

Interior Design

The Peugeot Inception Concept features a minimal cockpit dedicated to the driver alone, which does without a dashboard, crossbar and the bulkhead, providing a completely open view of the road.

Peugeot Inception Concept Interior Design Steering Wheel

Sustainable ‘moulded textiles’ are also used throughout the interior. Scraps of 100% polyester fabric from the design centre’s prototyping workshops or from suppliers are re-used to make load-bearing or trim parts.

Peugeot Inception Concept Interior Design

The seats are covered with a velvet made from 100% recycled polyester, which extends onto the floor and features 3D patterns to act as a floor mat.

Peugeot Inception Concept Interior Design

Next-generation i-Cockpit®

With its new Hypersquare control system, the Inception Concept offers an agile driving experience and an all-new, more intuitive i-Cockpit®. Inspired by video games, the Hypersquare control system does away with the conventional steering wheel in favour of digital electric controls and steer-by-wire technology.

Peugeot Inception Concept Interior Design Steering Wheel

The centre of the Hypersquare is a tablet-type screen dedicated to the distribution of control information. The pictograms for the different features (air conditioning, radio volume, ADAS etc.) are displayed on the two side panels to facilitate access to the chosen control. The latter is located inside the circular recesses and can be accessed by moving the thumb only, without taking your hands off the steering control.

Peugeot Inception Concept Interior Design Steering Wheel

The next generation i-Cockpit also includes the Stellantis STLA SmartCockpit technology platform and STLA AutoDrive, enabling Level 4 autonomous driving. When driving is delegated, Hypersquare retracts and a large panoramic screen slides out from the floor to offer a new passenger compartment experience.

Peugeot’s goal is to introduce the Hypersquare on a next generation vehicle in the range before the end of the decade.

Technology

‘BEV-by-design’ platform

The Inception Concept is based on the STLA Large platform, one of four future Stellantis Group “BEV-by-design” platforms. The arrival of this new range of platforms from 2023 will revolutionise the PEUGEOTs of tomorrow. Specifically created for electrification, they offer major differences in terms of architecture which enabled designers to completely reshape the passenger compartment.

The new “BEV-by-design” native electric platforms will also introduce technological modules powered by artificial intelligence: STLA Brain, STLA SmartCockpit and STLA AutoDrive. Like the Inception Concept, future Peugeot models will be equipped with STLA Brain artificial intelligence and will be fully connected.

Powertrain

The 100% electric Inception Concept is equipped with 800V technology. Its 100kWh battery enables it to travel 497 miles on a single charge, with extremely low consumption of just 12.5kWh per 100 km. The Inception Concept is capable of adding 19 miles of range in one minute, or 93 miles in five minutes, and can also be recharged wirelessly by induction.

Two compact electric motors, one at the front, the other at the rear, deliver a combined power close to 680hp (500kW), enabling it to accelerate from 0-62mph in under three seconds.

Electrification strategy

The Inception Concept is a showcase of the new techniques Peugeot will introduce to reduce its carbon footprint by more than 50% by 2030 in Europe and to become fully Carbon Net Zero by 2038.

Over the next two years, Peugeot will launch five new 100% electric models and by 2030, all PEUGEOT cars sold in Europe will be electric.

(Source: Peugeot)

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