{"id":149578,"date":"2020-06-26T16:43:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T20:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=149578"},"modified":"2020-06-26T16:49:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T20:49:48","slug":"fca-ceo-manley-says-hybrid-wrangler-arriving-by-end-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2020\/06\/fca-ceo-manley-says-hybrid-wrangler-arriving-by-end-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"FCA CEO Manley Says Hybrid Wrangler Arriving By End of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FCA CEO Mike Manley told attendees at the company’s annual shareholder meeting held online that the new Jeep Wrangler would be here by the end of 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After sitting on the sidelines when it came to electric vehicles and their derivatives Fiat Chrysler revealed it\u2019s now in the game with the introduction of the Jeep Wrangler plug-in hybrid.<\/p>\n

FCA CEO Mike Manley discussed the importance of the new entry during the company\u2019s annual general meeting held online Friday. Prior to the Wrangler, the company\u2019s only real efforts at electrification were the current Chrysler Pacifica hybrid and a past iteration of the Fiat 500e.<\/p>\n

That vehicle was so reviled by then-CEO Sergio Marchionne, he implored people not to buy it because he said the company lost too much money on the sale of each vehicle. The new Wrangler hybrid will usher in a new era at FCA.<\/p>\n

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(Jeep bringing three plug-in hybrids to CES.)<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

“Jeep’s icon the Wrangler\u00a0will arrive on the market with a 4xe version that will be on the front line of our electrification strategy in North America,” he said during the automaker’s annual general meeting held online because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Detroit News.<\/p>\n

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All Jeep plug-in hybrids will adopt this badge in the future, starting with the new Wrangler hybrid.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Going forward, all electrified Jeep products will carry a special \u201c4xe\u201d badge. Now the arrival of the hybrid Wrangler wasn\u2019t really a surprise, as had been discussed for some time and made an earlier appearance at CES in Las Vegas in January.<\/p>\n

No real details were given at the time, but now Manley said it will be available in the U.S. by the end of this year. China and Europe will get it sometime in the first quarter of 2021. Manley didn\u2019t offer up what Jeep models are next to be electrified, if you will.<\/p>\n

(<\/em>Click Here <\/span>for an earlier look at Jeep\u2019s PHEV plans.)<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

However, at CES the Wrangler was joined by Compass and Renegade hybrid vehicles. It wasn\u2019t even the first real event for those vehicles either, Jeep having teased versions of the Compass and Renegade plug-ins last year.<\/p>\n

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The new Jeep Wrangler hybrid is slated to arrive at the end of 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If it hasn\u2019t torn up those original plans, we can expect to see the new plug-in hybrids deliver up to 31 miles range and the ability to operate at speeds up to 62 mph in all-electric mode. The gas and electric power sources, the brand said last year, combine to deliver about 240 horsepower.<\/p>\n

The hybrids are critical to the commitment to offer electrified versions of all Jeeps by 2022 to meeting tougher carbon emissions standards in other parts of the world.\u00a0Orders for the plug-in Jeep Compass and Renegade crossovers in Europe will start in by early July.<\/p>\n

(FCA makes splash at SEMA as Jeep takes 4\u00d74 award.)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Manley did not talk about the brand\u2019s larger, pricier models, which will need to find a place for a plug sooner rather than later, especially the Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer, which will be built in Warren, Michigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After sitting on the sidelines when it came to electrified vehicles Fiat Chrysler revealed it\u2019s now in the game with the Jeep Wrangler plug-in hybrid. FCA CEO Mike Manley discussed the importance of the new entry during the company\u2019s annual general meeting, reports TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":134566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,8,5,12,9],"tags":[],"make":[51,69],"post-state":[],"category_old":[118,286,149,150,151,123,274,287,319,289,299,191,154,169,253,132,129,125,139,128,291,278,288],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149578"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=149578"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=149578"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=149578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}