As the Jeep classic phrase slogan says, “Not all SUV, called Jeep.” Indeed, Jeep in my mind has always been such a personality, feelings car brand. Whenever talking about Jeep, will always think of “off-road, Wrangler, four-wheel drive” and other words, if the Jeep and PHEV plug-in hybrid models together, how to have a wonderful reaction, almost unimaginable owned.
Yes, this time I came to Huizhou, Guangdong, shared with Hawaii latitude 22deg; sun, test drive is Jeep models commander PHEV, this model is the Jeep brand’s first new energy vehicles, has just recently listed, the Department launched a total of 2 models, pricing of 30.98-32.28 million.
American hardcore, appearance still
The new commander PHEV should be regarded as a new model, but the general appearance of the commander and fuel version is not much difference, in addition to identifying the PHEV rear, it is substantially difficult to distinguish the true identity from the appearance.
in the appearance of color, the commander has a unique color PHEV – Silver Valley, but due to the production planning of the manufacturer, this test drive times are black Arctic, there is no this color really making a map, expecting debut on the Guangzhou Auto show.
charging port location on the vehicle body rear left position, using 220V / 30A dedicated charging post can be recharged in two hours, but using household power 220V / 10A full 8 hours.
In our test drive vehicle, equipped with five 19-inch double spoke wheels, with a 235/55 R19 Bridgestone green song with tires, which is a focus on fuel-efficient and quiet tires, which improve fuel economy of the vehicle. In the low allocation models, it is assembled 18-inch five-spoke wheels, which isDistinguish between two configurations of the models most direct way.
simple atmosphere, the interior still
In addition to the appearance of the outside of the Inheritance fuel version of the model, commander PHEV and fuel in the interior edition models also remained the same. 8.4-inch central control panel for PHEV models designed a hybrid page, you can view the power flow in this, driving records and other information.
bis barrel-type fuel on the dashboard plate is removed, replaced by a 7-inch LCD meter, oil and energy meter table.
In the case where the rear seat does not recline, the trunk volume is commander PHEV 775L, can be expanded after the seat recline to 1560L. Although the original placement of the spare battery, resulting in the trunk of the platform is elevated 75mm, but the plane is still a seat recline, for home use storage space also ease.
plenty of power, performance is still
mounted on the commander PHEV Wrangler same section GME-T4 2.0L turbocharged engine with 230 horsepower, 311 cattle middot; maximum torque meters. In addition, there are two total power of 155 kilowatts front motor to work with them. Equipped with the battery pack from Ningde era, the Ministry announced a pure electric mileage of 70 kilometers.
PHEV commander mounted three core cooperative hybrid technique is not inexperienced, which belong to a technique derived from Fiat Group Chrysler’s Voyager PHEV models. Since its 2017 inception, the technology for two consecutive years Ward won the title of top ten engines, and get out of the US Environmental Protection Agency rating, is a more mature hybrid technology.
In addition to hybrid systems, powertrain and fuel as well as gearbox version of the biggest difference, because it is a hybrid vehicle, 9AT on fuel version and no way to do a perfect match, in order to ensure smooth convergence power, so a matched E-CVT electrically controlled CVT. Meanwhile, the volume of the transmission is also smaller, it provides sufficient space for placing additional two motors.
However, Jeep four-wheel drive system has been proud of and does not appear on PHEV commander of all models, not technology reach, mainly four-wheel drive will increase the loss of power during transmission; secondly, the use of new energy vehicles, mostly scenes of urban roads, the precursor form of a relatively more in line with its travel needs.
Indeed, domestic production of all Jeep models I basically had one, and plenty of power, surging wave of every Jeep models are memorable point. While driving a car when starting out quiet Jeep (outside of the vehicle or a buzzer sound), or the first time such a wonderful feeling, which is like a rapper suddenly began performing mime, although the two are not conflict can coexist, but still need some time to adapt to it.
Fuel version of the commanders about the quality of the vehicle is about 1.8 tons, while the commander PHEV because of the extra equipped with motor and battery pack, the whole vehicle quality almost equal to two tons went. Such a big guy, in stark contrast with its weight in the sense of lightness initial acceleration phase, it can be said that this hybrid technologies to surprise my initial impression.
Because vehicle NVH are very place, in the form of an electrically driven, there is no significant current or acoustic motor; power switching between the motor and the engine is carried out with quietly interest, not easy to detect, driving texture to create a sense of quality.
includes four car driving mode, hybrid mode respectively (HYBRID), pure electrical mode (. ELECTRIC), the power saving mode (E -SAVE) and a sports mode (sPORT). usuallyIn city driving when you can put hybrid mode; when the highway or to the elevated section, you can use the power saving mode, power storage traffic congestion is likely to occur in order. Sport mode if it is not permitted in the case of the occasional Sahuan, then, is not to be used, although driving in this mode, fast dynamic response, push back significantly, but power is fleeting, and the joy and treasure –
As for fuel consumption, especially in a hybrid vehicle, fuel consumption fully grasp at the foot of the driver. If you fully charged out every day, commuting distance, then within 70 kilometers of pure electric driving mode can be done almost to zero fuel consumption and, of course, this is a little more extreme cases, each person’s car scenes and different. We test drive the entire process a total of about 200 kilometers, most of the road for the high-speed sections, and there is a small part of the city roads, fuel consumption will be cleared before departure, after the end of the table significant fuel consumption of about 5.5L / 100km. However, the premise must be starting at full power, and most of the high-speed sections is no congestion, so the smooth flow of traffic for most of the owners is simply a luxury, so this data can only be a reference.
AL Channel Summary
electrification seems to become invisible in the future development trend of the real car, more and more traditional car firms joined the landmark revolution is to improve. Especially this year, this trend is becoming increasingly apparent, Porsche introduced the Taycan, Ford introduced too many examples Mustang Mach-E, and so on. In this environment, Jeep introduced the first new energy vehicles is nothing too strange things. I, as one of the fuel cars old school, I miss each one while fuel vehicles, have to use an objective approach to look at the birth of these innovative models, after all hybrid version or pure electric version of the Wrangler launch, maybe both sooner or later.