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2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The legendary SUV brand’s first plug-in hybrid

Charged EVs

In Europe, it was smaller Jeeps—the subcompact Renegade and compact Compass family SUV—that got their plugs first. That’s not surprising—the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid, the company’s only previous plug-in hybrid, is a well-executed PHEV with an EPA-rated 32 miles of usable electric range that retains all the virtues of the Pacifica minivan.

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As EV Sales Stall, Plug-In Hybrids Get a Reboot

Cars That Think

And unlike many PHEVs, whose performance suffers when they rely on battery juice alone, the Ramcharger doesnt skimp on power. Li Autos Li L9, shown here at a 2024 auto show in Tianjin, China, is an extended-range hybrid SUV designed for Chinas wide-open spaces. The crossover SUV pairs a 44.5-kWh are also getting into the game.

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Prototype test drive: Lucid Gravity might defy segments

Baua Electric

Is that a minivan? Is that an SUV? The Lucid Gravity is the startup automaker’s upcoming crossover SUV, but in many ways it redefines the genre in terms of packaging, design, and how it drives. Lucid Gravity prototype Lucid’s electric SUV will be a chameleon It all comes down to the angle in which the Lucid Gravity is viewed.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Therefore, until we get quick-charge batteries -- based on new breakthroughs, Ill take a WAG and estimate that we will have real 5-minute quick-charge batteries in perhaps 10 years -- we are likely to get our juice mostly from our home chargers. Battery swapping wouldnt make economic sense without a considerable degree of standardization.