Peugeot e-Rifter vs Peugeot e-Traveller

The Peugeot e-Traveller costs £4,490 more than the Peugeot e-Rifter. For that premium it adds 925 litres more boot space and 4 more seats (9 versus 5). The Peugeot e-Rifter is not just cheaper - it also offers a 2.6s quicker 0-62mph time. On EVcarsguide's combined category scores, the Peugeot e-Rifter comes out ahead overall.

The Peugeot e-Rifter is £4,490 cheaper to buy. The Peugeot e-Rifter is cheaper to charge, roughly £176 a year versus £248 for the Peugeot e-Traveller, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the Peugeot e-Rifter comes out roughly £4,850 cheaper overall. These figures cover list price and home charging only - insurance, servicing, tyres and depreciation will move the real total.

EVcarsguide estimates a real-world motorway range of about 166 miles for the Peugeot e-Rifter and 160 miles for the Peugeot e-Traveller - effectively matched, and both well below their WLTP figures because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV.

The two are within 1 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 480 mm of total clearance for the Peugeot e-Traveller and about 479 mm of total clearance for the Peugeot e-Rifter. The Peugeot e-Rifter also turns in a 1.6 m tighter circle, which helps with U-turns and multi-storey ramps.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 84% battery health for the Peugeot e-Rifter and 84% for the Peugeot e-Traveller. That is close enough that capacity loss should not decide between them. Both use NMC-type cells, so for daily use keep the charge limit near 80% to slow degradation.