After being unveiled at CES in Las Vegas earlier this year and before traveling to the Shanghai show, the Peugeot Inception concept was in Paris in March. The opportunity for us to discover it in the presence of the design director of the lion brand Matthias Hossann.
An interview that is in our program “En Route pour Demain” on April 22 and that allows us to anticipate the elements that we can find in future Peugeot models. The signature in three luminous claws at the front can already be found on the newly redesigned 508, for example.
Vision of the future
For the rest, it is much more futuristic, specifically with a luminous logo, which we will soon be able to find in Peugeot and other brands with the current evolution of European regulations in this matter. A continuous evolution of light signatures that will also be mentioned in a future episode of En Route pour Demain.”
The interior is discovered with the impressive opening of the two huge motorized antagonistic doors with automatic opening.
We discover an ultramodern interior, with a particular lighting atmosphere linked to the use of special glass. It has benefited from a multichroic treatment (treatment with metal oxide baths) and is used in the 7.25 m2 of glass surface of the vehicle.
With a slightly yellowish tint, it allows light to enter on board, without overheating the interior. We found this type of glass in architecture and in the helmet visors of NASA astronauts, Peugeot explained.
Zen and techno atmosphere
Inside, the atmosphere is both zen and technological, well connected to the concept’s electric drive.
after test Lexus’ “throttle wheel” on a rolling prototype of its new RZ SUVIn this concept, Peugeot also adopts electronic steering “by wire”, without a steering column. Which also inspires the design of a very original steering wheel, the “hypersquare” that adopts a rectangular shape with circular cells.
“The design of this steering wheel was dictated by ergonomics to have another way of perceiving the road, intuitive, simple, but with a search for sensations and a new driving pleasure”, explains Guillaume Lemaître, Peugeot’s head of interior design. .
A steering wheel that can fit inside the dashboard, because yes, in addition to being 100% electric, this Inception can also go into 100% autonomous mode.
Behind this steering wheel, a funny circular screen, “the halo cluster”. It can display information to both the driver, the passenger and the outside. What to anticipate the next evolutions of the i-cockpit of the future Peugeot.
Source: BFM TV
