Ayeee!! That’s my Underground 4Runner still with the temp tags

Hi where is the bathroom?

YOU ARE MESSING UP TELLING PEOPLE IT WILL RUN ON EV for the first 140 miles. IT DONT.............. the gas generator motor runs at all times.

ITs usless because your NOT saving any GAS. The gas motor charging the battery always runs and always is using gas. Why not make it so it drives on just EV for 140 miles meaning you can drive 70 miles away from home drive back home 70 miles and use NO gas put it on your home charger and then recharge battery with cheap home electricity NOT USING ANY GAS. BUT still have the ability to use the gas motor on longer trips pulling a trailer or boat. RAM screwed up making it so the truck never uses battery ONLY.

thanks so much! We are privileged to have you a part of this awesome community 🙌🏽

I think its less about ev and more general product stagnation. Old charger and challenger are dead, and hadn't really changed in like 12 years. Just kept adding power. Pacifica is 7 years old. Dodge dart is dead. Dodge hornet is over priced. I'd argue that all jeep products apply a " it's a jeep" adder, making them uncompetitive when Mazda, Honda, Kia are making similar cuvs.

Sad that everything has to be politicized. EVs are just another tool at our disposal. They work best for most use cases, but not all. Plugin hybrids also have a niche to fill, but given their complexity most people should skip them. I think most people will be ready to move to full EV quickly after adopting PHEV and it's a shame they can't make that leap without wasting the time and money on the hybrid. But human psychology is a strange thing.

Mating a Engine to a transmission which shifts introduces a lot of stress on the engines components, increases wear on crankshaft bearings and cylinders. Mating a engine to a generator - increases is lifespan by 3-4X, so that engine should essentially never wear out.

Wouldn't a plug in Hybrid with a large battery accomplish the same thing?

Never buy the 1st gen of ANYTHING

Great review. Thank you.

Help me I'm poor

Fully optioned, this thing is 75 grand 😢

I have the Chrysler PHEV Pacifica, I regularly get +60mpg most of the year. In the Upstate NY winters the engine runs more to warm the cabin. If my commute was shorter (+60 miles round trip) the mileage would be even higher. We love it, it’s perfect for our needs. I agree the press does not understand the market. Only Toyota (I guess Stellantis too) seems to get it.

Ecoflow is stuck with these coolers. They are on sale for $500 now.

Can I still be an overlander if I use a single burner stove and sleep in a hammock?

I think the auto industry pundits don't understand that most of us are only going to have one vehicle and a PHEV let's us have an EV daily driver that can also travel across county and tow your trailer. I've also been interested in the electrified trailers put out by Bowlus and being developed by Airstream and Pebble. With the tough travel trailer market since Covid, i wonder if the big RV makers are willing to invest $10,000 a trailer in electric propulsion.

Unfortunately a year later the camera resolution still sucks ass lol

The amazing thing is that Hertz went nuts and kept buying a bunch of EV's without thinking this through, OR, they should have just tried it for a year or two in a couple of locations to test it out first.

Thank you.

The best thing that works if you have a hotel with a charger. Did that with my last vacation and left the hotel with 100% and never had to worry about finding a charger.

I agree it should be a fantastic tow vehicle and be a fully electric daily driver. I just hope it’s not crazy expensive.

Welcome to episode 005. This one was a bit of a mess 😂, multiple recordings that didn't play too nice with editing software and took away to long to complete. There's a ton of little commentaries and corrections we wanted to make but in the end threw our hands up in the air and got the raw footage ready for Monday morning. Let's see if you can find our errors!

Totally agree with...they seem to be the first that can do truck things. Just starting to get the WT in up here in Canada. Looking at getting one as soon as the Tesla network is opened up to GM. Look forward to it pulling my overland trailer and go camping with it in the foothills of the Rockies here and having access to available power when needed instead of a generator

The manual for my father-in-law’s Escalade is 400 pages. I couldn’t figure out how to put it in reverse much less set the climate control temperature. Nice passenger experience? Sure. Overthought? Very.

But will Elon ever forgive Mary and allow Chevy access to their charging network?

You lost me at ev..no thanks

I don't think it's just a luxury car thing. How much of a difference is there between a fully loaded Camry and the ES350. Does a $1,200 iPhone work that much differently than a good $600 competitor (putting aside OS). Differentiation will probably come down to design and experience both in and out of the car. Thanks for the thoughtful discussion. Cheers.

The gimbal tracking distracted me from the product review. Sorry for sounding harsh.

Yes I care. It seems to be a luxury if your car can finish its trip. 😂

Instant torque = instant neck snap. ;)

Did this guy really say... "The dealership experience " For a coffee bar? Are you serious? All these stearlerships are horrible The higher the end, the higher cost

And oh fool Minor detail You walk out to your car after it's been on charge And viola' and surprise! You have a full tank already! Welcome to the 21st century grandpa

Dood talking about premium cars while driving a vehicle with a full glass roof Sure dood! Store it!

EVs will do to car the same as what happened with smartphones. Remember back in the day? There was motorola, black berry, nokia, iphone, samsung, etc. Nowadays ppl either have samsung or iphone

Agree on many issues - but I think they handle terrible in sporty driving. They can't turn and shift line. To heavy. Sportiness is gone - no feeling everything artificial. Acceleration yes - sporty no.

Too many generalizations here, bruh.

If you can’t find a handy charging station, can you run this truck off gas alone?

How would it do in a crew cab truck back seat and if it is plugged in to dc will it charge the battery when driving. Great video btw

Hey fellas! Thanks for the content you’re producing! It’s very helpful for researching brands and items to purchase!

The strangest for me is a tie. M1 Tank and the M113 armored personell carrier.

How about a 1939 Yellow Coach? The manufacturer was an offshoot of Yellow Cab that was bought by GM some time in the early 1940s. We used it as a camper; we bought it from its previous owners, Bill Haley and the Comets. Yes, the legendary Rock 'N' Roll Band! We never met any members of the band. We bought it through their manager, in 1960. I drove it in 1965, a year after I got my driver's license. It was a beast to drive: all shifts had to be double-clutched. No power steering. Powered by a Detroit Diesel 6-71. Acceleration 0-60 took about 2-1/2 minutes! Fuel consumption was 6-8 mpg on the highway, down to 2-3 gallons/mile in the mountains.

I owned the strangest vehicle I’ve ever driven in high school. It was a ‘76 Mazda pickup with a ‘87 RX7 rotary engine, 5-speed manual, no power steering, and air horns. I miss that truck.

FIAT motors is what happened to Jeep. And Dodge. And RAM.

The issue you had with the first unit has been occurring a LOT. A user on Reddit dug into it and found that the thermistors are failing. The issue is that the $1 parts are buried in the unit and are not serviceable. It's likely that all units will fail this way with no good or easy repair possible. I'd 100% wait for a generation 2 with serviceable thermistors (like the Dometics have) or just get a cheap fridge and a Ecoflow River 2. Cheaper anyway and likely just as functional and you get LiFe type batteries. This sucks because it's a good size and has the right feature set and the price (at the currently reduced sales price) is reasonable. But if it's just going to fail, which I suspect nearly all of them will until they address the hardware issue, this can't be recommended.

Even when your dash says zero percent you are NOT out of electric motor drive. You always have a minimum of 15% battery to assist the engine. It’s like a Prius at this point and stays that way until you charge again. It’s a very complicated and complex system that most don’t understand properly and I think if Jeep made it more known then sales would increase on the 4xe.

The problems we are seeing lately at Jeep are what you get when you sell an iconic American brand to an Italian company and then it sells it to a Dutch conglomerate.

Gladiator is getting the 3.0 twin turbo Hurricane engine from the rumor mill. No reason why they wouldn't put it in a Wrangler either.

The calico cat is having a great time out there!

This will be a home run for Dodge/Chrysler/Ram. This is basically similar to Voltec Technology. It's smart how Dodge is marketing it!