JEEP’S current Easter Safari has centred round electrified powertrains with the corporate planning charging stations on the path heads of chosen US off-road tracks.
The model mentioned it can create the Jeep 4xe Charging Community over the subsequent 12 months to enrich its roll-out of plug-in hybrid (PHEV) fashions beneath the 4xe label, considered one of which – the Grand Cherokee PHEV – is anticipated on the market in Australia early subsequent 12 months, changing the diesel model.
The announcement was timed to launch the Wrangler 4xe PHEV within the US. The 4xe label makes use of a 2.0-litre turbo-petrol four-cylinder engine and two electrical motors for a claimed 280kW/637Nm.
It is going to be fitted to the Grand Cherokee – confirmed for Australia – and the Wrangler and Gladiator, which aren’t but confirmed for native launch.
The powertrain has a claimed 4.8 litres per 100km (equal) economic system and a 34km electrical vary. This vary is identical size as Jeep’s longstanding check route, the Rubicon Path.
Charging stations – that are free for 4xe homeowners – are deliberate at off-road tracks in Moab, Utah; the Rubicon Path in Pollock Pines, California; and Large Bear, California which is consistent with Jeep’s promise of electrification and confirmed by theunveiling of a Wrangler EV “Magneto” idea.
Jeep mentioned that further charging stations are deliberate in different “Jeep Badge of Honor” path places within the US by the tip of this 12 months.
It mentioned that the stations will probably be both immediately related to the facility grid or use solar energy to generate electrical energy. The charger delivers 240-volt energy and totally recharges the Wrangler 4xe’s 17kWh battery in about two hours.
Jeep model chief govt officer Christian Meunier mentioned homeowners “can take pleasure in the advantages of electrical propulsion wherever they go, together with essentially the most iconic off-road trails within the nation.”
Jeep has partnered with public charging community Electrify America to ascertain the stations.
Jeep 4xe homeowners will have the ability to log in to unlock free charging by way of a customized cell app by Electrify America, which additionally permits drivers to provoke and monitor their charging session.
The revealing of the all-electric Magneto in Utah follows Jeep’s custom of creating some ideas to whet the urge for food of its enthusiastic homeowners.
The Magneto relies on the 2020 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, however it has a single electrical motor changing the petrol engine. Unusually, for an EV, it has a six-speed handbook transmission.
The motor is rated at 130kW/372Nm and has an 800-volt system of 4 lithium-ion battery packs.
It was proven in bright-white paint with Surf Blue accents, a efficiency bonnet with centre scoop and customized decal, redesigned tailgate and full-width ahead lighting.
Jeep fitted a JPP 2-inch raise package, 17-inch Lights Out black metallic wheels with 35-inch mud-terrain tires, customized roll cage, Mopar Rock Rails, metal bumpers with a Warn winch and a metal stomach pan.
