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More problematic are the advertised 35 klicks of electric autonomy. Around town and on secondary highways, they were fairly easy to attain requiring no feathering of throttle of hyper-miling. Drive the Jeep like any other model citizen and those 17.3 kWh will reliably eke out those 34 or so kilometres of totally emissions-free motoring. On the highway, on the other hand, range was not nearly as impressive; when I could get the 4xe to remain in EV mode, it could only get about 25 or so klicks of electric-only range.
And, as I said, that’s when I could get it to stay in EV mode. Multiple times most frequently when I was cruising Ontario’s 407 the Jeep would fire up the gas engine and when I tried to force the issue, it’d send me messages that “electric mode is not available.” At first I thought it was some form of fault or that the 4xe’s computer was just trying to tell me that Hybrid mode would be far more efficient than Electric but no, the 4xe was just running o
2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe Driving He Said She Said
David Booth: We that would be fellow autoscribe, Nadine Filion, and I are shopping PHEVs. Perhaps not at this very moment, but sometime in the future, some form of plug-in will find its way into the Booth household and it sure-as-shootin’ isn’t going to be one of those anxiety-inducing EVs I’ve truly had my fill of desperately seeking charging stations just with the testers I drive. We have the choice whittled down to a short list, either Toyota’s RAV4 Prime or some form of Jeep 4xe.
My preference for the Prime is simply the result of its greater range as much as 70 klicks on battery-power alone and electrical moxie (it will cruise at 125 and even 130 km/h on battery alone, no matter how steep the hill or strong the headwind). Nadine wants a traditional short-wheelbase, off road-oriented Jeep and a two-door 4xe, when if one comes, would be as close as she comes to a YJ and still retains the plug-in hybrid