What Peugeot claims
Peugeot built the original RCZ between 2009 and 2015 as a two-door coupé. InsideEVs reports that the name is back on a concept called the RCZ Vision, and the figures attached to it are ambitious: 500 hp (about 373 kW), up to 600 km of WLTP range, a 10–80% charge in ten minutes and a provisional WLTP consumption target of 11.5 kWh/100 km.
Underneath sits a Stellantis STLA platform, a solid-state battery developed with the US firm Factorial and a 1,000-volt architecture. Peugeot has not stated a production date, a price or a market for the car.
The battery maths
Range and consumption have to agree with each other, and here they roughly do. A car that uses 11.5 kWh per 100 km and claims 600 km needs about 69 kWh of usable energy. Multiply 600 by 0.115 and the answer is 69.
That figure is useful twice over. It is close to the size of the battery in the Peugeot e-3008 that customers can order today, quoted at 73 kWh. It also shows what the ten-minute stop means in practice: 10–80% of 69 kWh is roughly 48 kWh pushed in over ten minutes. The average power across the whole stop works out at about 290 kW, with a higher peak at the beginning.
One caveat applies to every WLTP number. Motorway driving in winter often comes in 15 to 25% below the test figure. You can put your own route and outside temperature into our EV range calculator.
A pack 110 mm thick
Peugeot says the battery is 110 millimetres thick, which is how the concept keeps a low roof and a low driving position. The same report notes that Porsche and Alpine go the other way, keeping cells out of the floor so the body can sit low without a thick slab under the seats. The RCZ Vision has no published interior dimensions, so it says nothing yet about rear seats, child seats or boot volume.
Charging speeds and the chargers drivers meet
A 1,000-volt car charges at its headline speed only on hardware that can supply it. European fast-charging sites run from 50 kW up to 350 kW, and a 400-volt charger cannot feed a 1,000-volt pack at full rate through a simple cable. The plugs most people meet are slower still. New York has just installed its first lamppost charger, rated at 9.6 kW, good for about 30 miles in an hour.
Cost is the part families ask about. Forty-eight kilowatt-hours at a public fast charger priced at 0.79 €/kWh comes to roughly €38. The same energy at home on an off-peak tariff of about 0.10–0.12 €/kWh costs €5 to €6. Our charging cost calculator runs the sum for your own tariff and consumption.
High-power sites are being built mostly for fleets. A 27 MW truck charging hub is planned in Ontario with a grid connection before 2028. For passenger cars, our supercharger database lists 483 locations with prices.
What EU battery rules require
Chemistry does not exempt anyone from paperwork. Under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, every EV battery placed on the EU market from 18 February 2027 needs a digital battery passport and a carbon footprint declaration. The same regulation sets recovery targets: 50% of lithium from waste batteries by the end of 2027, rising to 80% by 2031, with cobalt, copper, lead and nickel at 90% and later 95%.
New models must also be type-approved with WLTP figures before they can be sold here, so 600 km becomes an official number only when a road-going version exists. Public money in Europe is going mainly into buses and fleets rather than coupés: Bucharest has drawn €87.44 million from EU modernisation funds for 40 electric buses and 45 trolleybuses.
What is still open
Peugeot has not said whether the RCZ Vision will be built. Rear-wheel drive is suggested by the staggered 21-inch front and 22-inch rear wheels, but not confirmed. The Factorial solid-state cells have no announced date for series production in a Peugeot.
The only element of the concept Peugeot has tied to a car you can order is the Hypersquare steering control, which the company says will appear in the next E-208.
Source: https://insideevs.com/news/811555/peugeot-rcz-solid-state-concept/