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Forging a green path to the future
Trigger the Electric button located between Hybrid and E-Save) down by your left knee, then take care to restrict your right foot to about 75 percent of the accelerator's travel, and you'll glide around town or up the Rubicon Trail in blessed (near) silence. It's devilishly hard to measure max electric acceleration without triggering the engine, but our test team managed to log a 0-60-mph time of 17.0 seconds en route to a 20.6-second, 64.4-mph quarter mile. That sounds glacial, but we merged easily with traffic and never felt "in the way." (You might be surprised how little of this vehicle's peak performance you will utilize in daily traffic.)
We plugged in every night at home and every time the office charger was free. With a full battery, the Wrangler 4xe in electric mode usually predicted 21-25 miles of range and generally delivered at least 18 in winter temps, while never feeling lethargic. Well, except for one day when, for no apparent reason (plenty of battery power, we'd been driving for quite some time in dry, sunny weather with the cabin warmed, etc. ), the engine-on threshold suddenly dropped to 25 percent throttle. After cycling the ignition, full e-power returned.