Getting a EV Jeep Wrangler is like getting a FERRARI with a four cylinders engine. No Thank you.Fully electric Jeep Wrangler Concept to be revealed at EJS Moab 2021. Will production be next? Wait..... IS THAT A 2 DOOR?
Special thanks to @MoparMike for first noticing the 2 doors!
Yes please.
Sounds like someone with 0 experience or knowledge of electric vehicles? Instant torque from 0 rpm. There literally is not a more perfect powertrain ever created for rock crawling. If they go with the concept vehicle style build, they are severally limiting the potential of the EV. There's no need for a transmission or transfer case. Give me solid axles with a motor on each one and selectable lockers with a battery large enough for 350+ miles and I'll order one tomorrow.
That would be one huge battery to get 350+ miles with off road tires... probably like 200 kWH.
Rivian is getting 314 miles out of 135kW pack, and that truck is about the size of a JLU. Their 180kW packs are going to push them past 400 miles. Gut the drivetrain out of a jlu, fill the frame with batteries, put in a couple e-beam axles and viola you have somewhere between 3and 4 hundred miles of range. The tech is there, at this point I don't know what they are waiting for. I would suspect a big part of it is selling off all the old tech before people realize how much better an EV wrangler would be off road and it becomes hard to sell the gas versions.
