Power % in Electric Mode

[tjtv]

Looking at the "% Power" Gauge in your Jeep Wrangler 4xe - what percentage can you get up to in Electric Mode before the gas engine kicks on to add more power? Does it vary as the battery is more/less charged?

I had a 2024 Wrangler 4xe. Lease ended and got a new 2025 4xe. This new 2025 4xe seems to not be able to put out the same amount of power in Electric mode as the 2024 I had. It seems to only be able to get up to about 25% before the gas engine kicks on. Does this sound normal?

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[Andy@AAV]

In my 2022 I can hit just about 50% in Hybrid mode before the ICE starts, but much more in Electric. It depends on the total system load, battery temperature and a bunch of other parameters to determine when the ICE kicks on. If you ask the battery to deliver a high power load and some of the other parameters are out of spec for that amount of power delivery it will kick on the ICE. I notice that if I'm at 15-20% going uphill on a long climb with high temps it will just kick into hybrid mode because the system is protecting itself.

 

[LAM]

If you accelerate (or go up a hill) ICE will turn on. Other things trigger it as well, sometimes in mysterious ways. Not much to do with how much the battery is charged. The hybrid, elec, e-save buttons affect how it manages the combination but ICE can come on in all three modes if the computers think it needs to.

 

[alphawolff]

Looking at the "% Power" Gauge in your Jeep Wrangler 4xe - what percentage can you get up to in Electric Mode before the gas engine kicks on to add more power? Does it vary as the battery is more/less charged?

I had a 2024 Wrangler 4xe. Lease ended and got a new 2025 4xe. This new 2025 4xe seems to not be able to put out the same amount of power in Electric mode as the 2024 I had. It seems to only be able to get up to about 25% before the gas engine kicks on. Does this sound normal?

Put it in electric mode and it'll hold to around 90% or so before it kicks on the ICE. You CANNOT floor it.

Remember this thing makes like 120hp and it's pushing around 3 tons of jeep. It's like a 18 second 0-60 time on pure battery.

 

[us3r1d]

Looking at the "% Power" Gauge in your Jeep Wrangler 4xe - what percentage can you get up to in Electric Mode before the gas engine kicks on to add more power?

I just tested this (on a 2024 Wrangler 4xe Rubicon X, if that matters).

In electric mode, starting from a stop light with the gas engine off and cold, using gradually increasing pressure on the accelerator, I can get it up to a bit below 75% on the power gauge before the power drops to 50%, the gas engine engages then the power goes up to 100%.

I can definitely feel a lurch at the power drop before the gas engine kicks on; it's brief, but noticable.

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