 Hey everybody, this is Brett with Summit, and today I'm going to do an extended test drive in the Wrangler right behind me, Stingray Rubicon 4xE. Really good looking vehicle right there, but we're going to do some real-world driving, city driving, highway driving with this hybrid and just see how it goes. I got the battery all charged up, so we should be 100% on that. I did that on Friday afternoon and it is now Sunday afternoon, but we're going to take a ride in that and hop along for the ride and we'll get some real-world driving with a 2021 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xE. Let's hit it. All right, just about to start it up here. It's about, oh I would say it's got to be about 25 degrees outside right now. It's pretty cold, a little bit of wind, but we're going to start up the Wrangler thinking. This one has the cold weather group, heated seats, heated steering wheel, and I'm just going to flip the camera here so we can turn it on and then you can see how this thing starts. So we're inside right now and turn it on. Let's make sure that everything is charged. So 26 miles, this thing gets about 27 miles on just purely electric right now. We're in gas, so I just have to get a plate and then we can start our test drive and let's see what's the temperature outside, does it say? It's 27 degrees out right now so we can get our nav going. I got my GoPro so we can have some of those videos for this video and this one's got the cold weather group, the heated seats, the steering wheel, definitely have that on. And you can see we've got hybrid, electric, and e-save. So right now we're in hybrid mode so that's why the engine's running. But I do want to try the electric mode out and do some real, real driving in the city on the highway and everything so we'll get going right now. Alright, here we go. Just starting off, I just want to point out how bright those LED headlamps and fog lamps are. So anyways, we have a couple different modes down here. We have hybrid, electric, and e-save. Obviously electric puts it just in electric mode. Hybrid will switch between gas and the battery as it's needed and then e-save is supposed to pretty much strictly use the engine to power the vehicle. Although we're staying still right now and everything's powered up, the engine is not running. Looks like my battery's at 98% so that's at, I think it was 99 right when we turned it on. But basically that's two days in the cold without being charged but it was fully charged so it didn't lose any really charge from being in the cold. So let's start the video. I've got my GoPro here. I'm going to start recording on that as well and we'll add that into the video as we go. But we'll start it off here and right now we're in e-save so it should be just engine, gas engine. So what I'm going to do is we're going to do fuel economy and we're going to do, we're going to reset it. I'll probably reset it once we get on the road here too. So love how nice and crisp that backup camera is. Other cool stuff we have going on is our standalone Jeep dealership that's going to be up and running in April of next year. It's December 19th right now or 20th but that should be done in April next year. So a couple more months and I'll have a real office. We've got a lot of trucks, a lot of used trucks for sale. So check our website out, summitauto.com. I manage all the inventory here and then I also do this YouTube channel for fun. And to help us sell vehicles. We do full HD videos of every used vehicle that we have. Alright, first off you notice when you're driving this vehicle you'll notice that it slows down a lot faster than a normal vehicle. And the brakes are a little stiffer I guess you could say. It takes a little bit more to break it. And I think that's part of the regenerative braking with the hybrid is that everything slows down to charge the batteries. You can see how nice and bright those lights are though. Rides really smooth. Now this is a, I believe this is a $65,000 vehicle. And it rides like a $65,000 vehicle. I mean for a Wrangler this thing is super smooth. So the engine's running right now. What we're going to do is we're going to drive it around town in e-save mode. And we'll go 440. We'll go for probably about 5 to 10 minutes here. And then I'll switch it to hybrid mode. And we will see how much we get for e-save mode for miles per gallon in the city. And then we'll go hybrid mode and see what we get. And then we'll do just electric mode. I'm curious because I only work about 3 miles from home so this vehicle would be ideal for myself. Because I can drive it to work, come back home, drive it home for lunch, drive it back to work and drive it back home on just an electric charge. I can plug it in overnight. And I theoretically would never have to go to Fleet Farm for gas again on my normal daily commutes. So we're just going to drive around town. And I'll probably fast forward the video or put it like 4 times or something while we're going here. So on the right we have the McDonald's that's featured in the film Super Size Me with that guy that eats all the Big Macs. That's where he eats them. Military Road in Fond du Lac here. Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. We're about an hour north of Milwaukee. I'm not even hitting the brakes right now and this thing is coming to a stop. We're at 95% battery right now. And that's the start stop that's going on right now. Since we're stopped it's turned the engine off. It turns back on. I'm going to turn the heat up. It's kind of cold in here. I have a shout out to everybody on YouTube Land that watches the channel. Like, subscribes, shares. It's a big help. Gives me the opportunity to do more videos like this. So we started this at 338. So we'll go a couple more minutes and then check the miles per gallon. Right now we're right around 18.5 in the city here. But I really appreciate everybody watching and subscribing on YouTube. Let everybody know if you're on any forums, share our videos. When you share them on the forums and stuff it seems like they really catch fire. That's really the first thing that you notice on this vehicle is that when you let off the gas, the vehicle really slows down fast. I'm not even hitting the brakes right now. This is coming to a stop on its own pretty much. Now I'm applying the brakes. So it's different. It's not like driving a normal vehicle for sure. It's a little bit of a learning curve with the brakes. You don't need to apply them as soon and the vehicle actually kind of breaks itself. I'll tell you what though, that heated seat and heated steering wheel is very nice. So we're coming up to Main Street here. This street is Linden, but the next one's Main Street. We'll go down to Main Street and show you some of the establishments in downtown Fond du Lac. Alright we got beer nuts. The brick house used to be the main exchange. Some of the local bars here. Like I said it's December 19th or 20th. Not really sure. There's the Coliseum. And on the right up here is Joe's Fox hut. Pretty famous pizza place here in town. Now keep in mind we're in e-save mode. And for a full four door Wrangler we're still... We are still at 19 miles per gallon. I'm gonna get on Johnson Street here. This is the Main Street that runs east and west. In Fond du Lac. Walgreens. Quick trip. It's like a quick trip on every corner. We're gonna build a new one pretty soon. We'll see that too. Get some heat on my camera hand here. Yeah I've had a Wrangler before. I had a 2015 JK Unlimited Sahara. Had leather, nav, all the options. One in one. Again, since I got rid of it. I have a camper. Wrangler just won't pull my camper. Not practical at the moment. But a vehicle like this would be great for daily commuter. But for me it's hard to justify a $65,000 daily commuter. But that electric is intriguing and tempting. To not have to put gas in my car for work. One of my favorite things about the Wranglers is how quick they heat up. The heaters in Wranglers are exceptionally good. And I think just because it's such a confined space. They really warm up quick. Like the anti-glare hood on here. Or decal. We're at about 447. We've got one more minute. And then we'll be at 10 minutes for this particular segment of the video. I think what I'll do is I will pull off here. I'll turn it into hybrid mode. So we've gone about 10 minutes city driving 19.4. Now I'm going to put it into hybrid mode. You can see that changed right there. We'll kind of take the same loop that we were just on. So now it's 448. So we'll go to 458. Actually they're going to be building another quick trip right there. That used to be where Schreiner's restaurant was. That was pretty famous. That went out of business because of COVID and other reasons. But they're building a quick trip right there. Somebody's having a bad day. Anyways in the comments below let us know what you think. Kind of a little different night test drive. But kind of ran out of hours on the day here. You can see we're already up to 20.8 miles per gallon in hybrid mode. Actually you know what I'm going to reset that. And now it's 450 so we'll do it. So this is a start up hybrid mode. It's 450. We'll go 10 minutes on this thing. And this is going to be the same. Pretty much the exact same loop that we just did. We're on the frontage road right now. We'll get up to Fleet Farm here again. And then we'll go left. And we'll do that loop again. So you can kind of see what kind of miles per gallon you're getting on the hybrid city. You can already see we're at 34.3. That's pretty good. These guys are going super slow. Always go the speed limit though. So you don't end up like the guy back there. You can hear it's pretty quiet in here. Wranglers always have a little bit of road noise. It's going to be quieter in a hard top. Then you are a soft top. Just air and noise can pass through a canvas. A lot easier than the plastic and glass. This thing is really nice though. As it should be for $65,000. Alright we're coming up to Fleet Farm here. And we'll do that exact same loop again. The roundabouts. I don't mind them. Keeps traffic going. Frenchies Tavern right there. That used to be the hitching post. There's the famous McDonald's again. So we'll fast forward these through town parts in the video. And when we get up to the mini malls again, we'll check out the mileage with the hybrid. And then we can do it with the e-save. And then we'll get some highway driving and final thoughts. I guess you could say. I'll put it all together and make a hopefully comprehensive and entertaining video. This one's got all the goodies. It's got nav, heated seats, heated steering wheel. It's got the backup cam. The LED light group. Leather seats. So we're actually at zero RPMs. We're at 84% battery right now. So I got 20 miles of purely electric left with the hybrid mode. So it does eat up some of your battery when you're in that hybrid mode. Obviously. And it is weird to get used to. Letting off that gas and the vehicle just wants to come to a stop. Coming back up the main street. I think we'll get some food after this video. I don't think I'm going out tonight. Probably just get a sandwich at home. My feet are cold so I'm going to change that. Getting back on the Johnson here. Okay, here we go. That was a long red light. Sorry I paused the video there. Firetux. Left there. That's a pretty good place to eat. Geno's Italian. They got some good pizza there. I heard Riviera Maya on the right there. That's pretty good Mexican food. Dairy Queen. Blizzard, of course. So now we've gone about another round here. You can see that we're at 30 miles per gallon. Now that's on hybrid mode. So city driving hybrid mode about 30 miles per gallon. When it was on e-save mode we got about 20 miles per gallon. So about 10 miles per gallon better. So what we're going to do now is we're going to take the same loop and I'm going to put it in electric mode. As soon as we get around this corner and we'll see how it goes. So I'll get on a straight stretch here and I will put it in electric mode. Electric mode saves fuel for later years. So we're going to reset this. You can already see that on the right there is going down only 19 miles on electric. You can see the battery is already starting to go down to 77. But we're getting phenomenal fuel mileage here. 43 just keeps climbing. So once again we'll fast forward this part of the video or maybe just do the GoPro video for this part. Then what we're going to do next is I'm going to take it on the highway. We're going to go about 10 miles. Maybe 5-10 miles we'll do a loop on the highway. See what kind of highway mileage this gets. We'll compare, contrast and try and wrap the video up in a comprehensive end to it. This thing is so quiet. It's crazy. Even with the big tires on it's got BFGs. I think they're 325. So you can see my miles per gallon are right at about 50. We only got 17 miles left on the battery life. We only have 17 miles to go for the daily commute. This would be ideal. Battery is at 68%. That guy doesn't have his lights on. Smart. Really smart. We're coming up to our stopping point here for the city driving. I do want to make it clear that I had the recharge button. That's max regeneration. That's taking all the brakes, all the momentum of the vehicle to recharge the batteries whenever it can. That's probably why it feels like it's breaking so hard when I have my foot off the gas and brake. We're coming up to the end here. There are 46 it says. I have half the battery left in the vehicle and I've got 11 miles of electric left. We can compare those. Then I'm going to turn e-save mode back on. I'm going to go get some food. Then we're going to take this on the highway and finish up the final part of the video which is the highway driving. Stay tuned for that. I've got e-save mode back on. Here's the engine kick back in. We'll go from there. I did want to point out one quick thing. I stopped here to get something to eat and I turned the vehicle off and it gave me how long it would take to charge the vehicle. With the 120V it would be 8 hours and 47 minutes and 240V would be 1 hour and 16 minutes. That's kind of neat. When you're done driving that you can see how long it's going to take to charge the vehicle. I thought that was kind of neat. I'm going to get something to eat and then we'll keep going. We did the city driving. We had the max regeneration on. I'm guessing that skewed it just a little bit but we're going to go on the highway. I'm going to turn the max regeneration off and we're going to get some real-world driving on the highway with the e-save mode, the hybrid, and then the electric. Here we go. We are going to be pulling the regeneration off. We are in hybrid mode. I'm going to get it up to 70 miles per hour. I'm going to put the cruise control on and then I'm going to reset the fuel economy so we can get a good measure of what we're going to get for fuel economy. We're going to go probably about 3 miles. We're at 70 miles per hour, 71, reset it. Once again, we are in hybrid mode with max regeneration off. I'm kind of curious to see if that max regeneration would change anything. Our battery is at 43%. We have an 11 miles distance on just electric. Boy, she rides smooth on the highway. Really a nice vehicle. I think we've kind of evened out here. So hybrid mode on the highway, about 71 miles per hour. I'm going to be right around that 25.5, 26.1, going down just a little bit right now. I'm going to get off the highway here. Right around 25, 24. Just because I'm curious, what we'll do is we'll do... I'll turn the max regeneration on and then we'll go back the way we just came. We'll do that run again with the max regeneration on. We'll go the other way with e-save mode on and then we'll reset it here. Then we'll go back the other way with the max regeneration on. We'll get up to 71 miles per hour again. Now we're going back down highway 41 here. We're set at 71. We'll reset it. Now we're in e-save mode, so this should just be the 2-liter. I think we got a little bit more wind going this way. Really not that good in e-save mode. 15.3, 15.2.1. I wonder how much that has to do with the wind. A little bit, but it shouldn't be that much. Looks like we evened out at about 14.1 miles per gallon. That's on the highway doing 71 in e-save mode, so no electric assistance. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to go one more time back north on 41 in hybrid mode and we are going to turn max regeneration on. We'll do that right now. Back to hybrid mode. This is just to quench my curiosity to see if max regeneration affects miles per gallon on the highway. Once again, I'll get up to 71. I'll reset it and then we'll check it out. I'm doing the exact same run that I just did in hybrid mode with the max regeneration off. So now max regeneration is on. Down to 71. I'll reset it. There we go. I think we're at 25 or so. Yes, I'm really driving on the highway. That's interesting. It doesn't look like it's really affecting it with the max regeneration. In fact, I'm getting a little bit better than we were before. And yes, the heated seats and heated steering wheel are a nice feature. So that's really interesting. We're actually getting 27, 28 miles per gallon with the hybrid mode with the max regeneration on. Now it's coming back down. So that's kind of what happened before we got on the highway. Went up pretty far. Boy, she really slows down when you have that max regeneration on. So I think the only thing we have left is an electric mode to be on the highway in electric mode and see how that goes. And then we're going to be... Once we get that all done, I'm going to go back to the shop. We'll do a walk around video on this vehicle. You can check that out in the upper right hand part of the screen. But I'm going fully electric mode right now. We'll reset it once we get up to speed here. This guy's going to go slow. I'm just going to stay with traffic here. So this guy's going 66 in front of me. He's going super slow. Anyways, we're right around that 40. It almost feels like even though I'm in electric mode it feels like the engine's still running. Really sure. See our battery is dropping down to 19% now. 18 down to 4 miles. So when I had to pick it back up I had to turn the electric mode off temporarily to get me back up to the speed. It was at 40. I had to speed up. Got it down to 33 or so. Anyways, hope you enjoyed the videos. I'm going to be talking about it here in just a little bit. So remember you can go check out our videos. I might even do a 0 to 60 here just at the end of it since I do have a little bit of battery left. Then we'll do our video on it. I'm going to make sure here we are at summit. I'm going to make sure that nobody's coming and that nobody's behind me for this video. Here we go. Down the road, nobody's behind me right now. Full stop. And go. Alright, so that concludes the Jeep Wrangler 4xE test drive. Hope you enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun to do. Taking the past hour and a half driving this around. I just did the video. Walk around for this vehicle. It's in the upper right hand part of the screen if you want to check that out. Had a lot of fun doing it. 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