The brief for the BB1 was to fi t four people into an electric vehicle the size of a first-generation Smart ForTwo. Built at Peugeot’s Automotive Design Network facility in Vélizy, France, the car achieves that goal by using tandem seating. Design also worked in tandem with engineering, explains interior design director Amko Leenarts: “Because everything was so constrained towards functionality, we couldn’t fi rst do a sketch and a design and then play around to see if it would work. This was such a different layout in terms of how people would sit, get in and out, and operate the vehicle — almost all the interior elements are new.” The team started with proportion and ergonomic models, then made a functional prototype; there was no clay model phase.

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