DETROIT – Jeep plans to launch 4 new all-electric SUVs in North America by 2025, together with a luxurious Grand Wagoneer and a Wrangler-inspired off-road car known as the Recon.
The quintessential American SUV model introduced the brand new automobiles Thursday together with plans for half of its U.S. gross sales, and all of its European gross sales, to be all-electric automobiles by 2030. The gross sales targets are in step with prior ones introduced by Jeep’s mother or father firm, Stellantis.
Jeep executives mentioned the brand new EV fashions can be additions to the model’s lineup, not replacements for present fashions comparable to its flagship Wrangler off-road SUV.
The bulletins make for Jeep’s most detailed and aggressive electrification plans to this point. Beforehand, the model was largely specializing in plug-in hybrid electrical automobiles that provide all-electric driving along with a conventional inner combustion engine.
“Our objective could be very clear: Turn into the worldwide chief in SUV electrification,” Jeep CEO Christian Meunier mentioned throughout a media briefing. The corporate plans to attain that objective by 2025.
The Recon – a “brother” to the Wrangler – and the electrical Grand Wagoneer, known as the “S,” are anticipated to enter manufacturing in 2024, Jeep mentioned.
The automaker is focusing on a spread of 400 miles on a single cost, 600 horsepower and a 0-60 mph time of round 3.5 seconds for the electrical Grand Wagoneer S. The model didn’t announce efficiency expectations for the Recon past saying it is going to supply Wrangler-like off-road functionality.
Jeep additionally plans to supply 4 new EVs in Europe by 2025, together with a small SUV known as the Avenger that won’t be bought within the U.S. Meunier declined to say how lots of the automobiles can be bought in each North America and Europe.
The Avenger, which is smaller than the model’s entry-level Jeep Renegade, will arrive in European showrooms in early 2023, in response to the corporate.
Jeep plans for each car in its lineup to supply some type of “electrification” by 2025. That might embody hybrid, plug-in hybrid electrical or all-electric fashions. The corporate declined to forecast what a part of its gross sales can be powered by conventional gasoline-powered engine by 2025 or 2030.
Jeep at present gives plug-in hybrid electrical variations of its Wrangler and Grand Cherokee within the U.S. The automobiles can journey in all-electric mode earlier than an inner combustion engine kicks on to energy the automobiles. The 4×4 electrified fashions are badged “4xe,” a play on the model’s off-road status mixed with electrification.
“That is just the start of an thrilling new chapter,” mentioned Jim Morrison, head of the Jeep model in North America. “4xe is the brand new 4×4.”
Jeep-parent Stellantis’ general electrification technique contains investing 30 billion euros, now price $30.1 billion, in electrical automobiles and supporting applied sciences by 2025. The corporate expects to have 55 electrified automobiles within the U.S. and Europe by 2025 — 40 all-electric fashions and 15 plug-in hybrid electrical automobiles.