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Originally Posted by XutvJet
How is the driveability around town? The reason I ask is multiple reviews showed a hybrid drivetrain at odds with itself. Per Car and Driver:
"In other words, the power flow through the Wrangler 4xe's running gear is, at times, harder to follow than the plot of Inception."
"Driving the Wrangler 4xe in suburban traffic is a constant reminder that calibrating two powertrains to behave as one is more than twice as complicated as tuning a single propulsion source."
It's crazy how bad the resale is on the 4XE. Probably best to lease or buy a slightly used one that's 1-2 years old for nearly half price now.
If you drive almost all city and with little distance, it can get decent mpg. Once that battery is depleted though, it gets 20mpg max on a good day. Still better than my wife's 2020 4runner though. That thing gets 18mpg going up hill, downhill, thrown out of a plane, etc.
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I haven't had any issues at all with it around town. I normally just plug the thing into an outlet in the garage overnight to charge. So when it uses the battery, the gas motor doesn't turn over and it still changes gears oddly enough (I imagine that's to keep the motor primed if it has to turn on). It doesn't buck, it doesn't do anything out of the norm, it just drives on full electricity. When I'm out of electric juice, it runs on the gas motor and still gets decent gas mileage around town because if going down hill, it picks up electrons and adds power back into the battery. Meaning, in stop and go, it just uses electricity instead of the gas motor.
Resale wise, yes, these things plummet. I think most EVs and hybrids seem to. So leasing one makes the most sense if you're looking at keeping costs down and trying out something like a hybrid.
I really enjoy driving it around town.
One of my G80 friends has one and the most miles he's gotten out of one tank is 1200 lol. I think my buy out was something like $36K after 3 years, no way i'm doing that at that price. I would buy mine for 20 something thousand and throw a small lift and 35s and call it a day. Probably ruin that stellar gas mileage so maybe not.