Jeep is kicking the doorways of the EV occasion down by lastly totally detailing its first all-electric providing, the extraordinarily fast and confusingly named 2024 Wagoneer S. Jeep’s first EV to succeed in sellers comes full of an entire lot of spectacular numbers: 600 horsepower, 617 pound-feet of torque, 300 miles of vary, 6,700 pound of girth, a 3.4-second 0-to-60 time and a beginning price ticket of almost $72,000.
Though it’s an EV, Jeep nonetheless desires the Wagoneer S to behave like a Jeep off-road. That’s why it’ll include normal all-wheel drive and Jeep’s Selec-Terrain transaction administration system with 5 drive modes, together with Snow and Sand, so you will get your Wagoneer S soiled. It’s additionally obtained sufficient juice to tow a 3,400-pound trailer in case you’re into that kind of factor.
The Wagoneer S rides on Stellantis’ STLA Giant platform, so it additionally has the entire common EV stuff you’d count on from a contemporary luxurious electrical crossover. Jeep says its 400-volt, 100-kWh battery pack may be charged from 20 to 80 % in simply 23 minutes in case you’re utilizing DC quick charging, and each Launch Version truck will get a free 48-amp Degree 2 residence charger or public charging credit score. Not too shabby.
On the surface the Wagoneer S definitely appears like a Jeep, simply sleeker. It’s nonetheless obtained the basic seven-slot grille that’s been synonymous with Jeeps for many years, nevertheless it doesn’t serve the identical operate anymore. Since there’s no want for a grille on an electrical automotive, Jeep determined to make use of it for accent lighting. It’s the fashionable factor to do in any case, and I feel it appears fairly good — higher than glowing emblems do, anyway. There are satin black and aluminum accents, and the wheels are a mere 20 inches.
The Wagoneer S makes use of flush-mounted door handles and a extra aerodynamic form to enhance effectivity, together with a sloping roofline with a behemoth cantilever rear spoiler positioned above the sloped rear glass. Jeep says the Wagoneer S has a reasonably good 0.29 coefficient of drag. All in all, it’s a very nice piece of design that, whereas not revolutionary, does deliver the Jeep model moderately seamlessly into the electrical age. That’s to say, it appears precisely like what you’d assume an electrical Jeep crossover would appear to be.
The inside is way of the identical story. It appears like each different fashionable Jeep inside, with a variety of screens — 4, to be particular. There’s one for the gauge cluster, two stacked within the middle console, and one in entrance of the passenger. In whole, Jeep says there are greater than 45 inches of screens, and that doesn’t embody the heads-up show or rearview mirror digicam. The 2-spoke, flat-bottom steering wheel is weirder than what different Jeeps have, too.
Aside from an entire lot of piano black plastic, there appears to be a reasonably good combination of supplies and surfaces that makes the inside of the Wagoneer S really feel like one thing that ought to value over $70,000. Jeep says that recycled supplies are “consciously built-in” into the crossover’s inside, and the seats, console, doorways and instrument panel surfaces are all lined in a non-leather artificial materials.
Jeep can be foregoing common door poppers on the inside — like so many different EVs, the Wagoneer S will make do with thumb buttons to open the doorways. Moreover, like costliest luxurious SUVs, it’ll include a smattering of ambient lighting with 64 colours to select from, bathing the five-passenger Wagoneer S in no matter colour you may give you.
Just like different high-end Jeeps, the Wagoneer S comes with a McIntosh stereo system, and this software has 1,200 watts, 19 audio system and a 12-inch subwoofer behind it. That’s a strong lil’ man. It’ll come as normal with all the things you’d count on from a luxurious automobile like a surround-view digicam, a collection of driver-assistance methods, blind-spot monitoring, a panoramic sunroof, 12-way energy seats, heated and ventilated seats in any respect 4 corners, and Jeep’s Uconnect infotainment system.
So, the 2024 Wagoneer S appears like a reasonably compelling bundle on paper. Of us love a Jeep, so this looks as if the pure subsequent step for the model. I’ve simply obtained one drawback with it, although: the title. I don’t perceive why it’s referred to as the Wagoneer S, and that’s largely all the way down to the scale. The truck is 192.4 inches lengthy, which is definitely 1.1 inches shorter than the two-row Grand Cherokee. It’s a monstrous 22.3 inches shorter than the shortest Wagoneer. I don’t get it. The one factor I can consider is Jeep feels the “Wagoneer” title carries extra sauce than “Grand Cherokee.” Apparently, the general public selected the title, however I don’t consider it.
Regardless, the title however, the Wagoneer S appears to be a extremely strong entrant into the midsize electrical crossover world. We’ve simply obtained to hit the paths to see if this Jeep can really reside as much as its title. Jeep says the 2024 Wagoneer S Launch Version needs to be hitting vendor tons within the U.S. and Canada this yr, and it’s going to start out at $71,995 together with vacation spot.
