It's that time of year again. Jeep's annual Easter Safari kicks off the first week of April, and as in (most) years past, the 4x4 builder is on location with a collection of concept trucks that may or may not hint at future options, accessories — and maybe even entire vehicles. Looking at you, Magneto. This year's mix includes a return of that electric project truck (now in version 3.0), along with four other in-house designs from the Jeep team. Jeep Performance Parts tagged along as usual with two more builds of their own. We'll have more from the field once we get a chance to play around with Jeep's toys in Moab. Let's dive in. Yep, Magneto's back. This will be its third and final outing, Jeep says, and based on how little it has changed since last year, we're comfortable with Jeep calling this one finished. There's only a slight bump in power this year; it gets another 25 horses an 50 pound-feet of torque, for a total of 650 and 900, respectively. But it did sprout a new set of drive modes that give you finer control over the output of its electric motors. Its standard setting dials the total oomph back to just 285 hp and 273 lb.-ft. That's both the rated power output of Jeep's 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 and a subtle nod to the Magneto 1.0, which used those figures as its baseline. And yep, it still has a six-speed manual. For more info visit www.autoblog.com #Jeep #easterjeepsafari #jeepconcepts #jeepwrangler #moab #suv #wrangler #cherokee #jeepcherokee #grandwagoneer #jeepgrandwagoneer #grandwagoneer #jeepgladiator #gladiator
TranscriptMARK ALLEN: 2023-- this is the third and final iteration of our ongoing Magneto project where we created a fully battery electric, fully mission-capable Wrangler. For this year, we've added a lot more to the powertrain, but I'll walk you around the exterior first. Starting up front, we've got our Rubicon 20th grille on here. The hood-- carbon fiber hood-- carbon fiber fenders. Leaving it up on 40-inch tires which we introduced last year. Also when we extended the wheelbase.
But then this year we've raked the windshield back, effectively chopped the top, created a new roof for it with this great blue see through on it. Reupholstered the interior, updated the color scheme on the outside, and really gives it this aggressive cool off-road look to it.
Third and final iteration of Magneto-- functionally, it's still a fully battery electric vehicle connected to a six-speed manual transmission. New for '23, it has a more efficient axial flux motor. We have 20% more range, increased torque now. From 850 last year, we're up to 900-foot pound torque. Also, a 20% increase in usable energy from the battery.
We've also added selectable drive modes. The first being a regen-- so off or medium-- more for street driving. And then a separate aggressive regenerative mode in four-wheel drive low only, which offers one-pedal driving. Imagine going down a very, very steep hill and having to throttle to go down the hill without the brakes. And then a two-stage selectable power output. So baseline 285 horsepower, which matches the gas V6 this vehicle was originally equipped with, or the electric full beam's 900 foot-pounds torque.
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