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After owning her ‘07 Wrangler since new, it was time to retire the JKU. “The Jeep”, as we called her, handled 10 years of hockey gear, 14 years of back roading, defacto pickup truck duties and typical moms taxi services.
Goodbye ol friend…
So we replaced it with another Wrangler. I couldn’t convince my wife to seriously look at another vehicle. We looked at a 110, Bronco, 4Runner but only half heartedly. She really wanted another Wrangler…so we REALLY got another Wrangler.
It’s a ‘21 Rubicon 4xe. Questionable colour choice aside (it’s growing on me) , this thing is pretty nifty.
It’s got the turbo 4-cyl plus the plug-in electric assist which is pretty mind blowing. The torque is incredible for someone who hasn’t owned an electric vehicle before.
The tech is all there as well. I’ll post much more as I get to know this thing more.
It’s quite the upgrade from the old one. We have the tow package being installed as well as running boards because we want to completely ruin its off road ability. A sun runner and roof racks for the boards will be on order as well.
Oh, she wants to remove the Rubicon decals and the black anti-glare decal from the hood. I don’t mind them but she’s adamant so WCYD? Pretty stoked either way.
The 4Xe that we picked up yesterday had 1% battery when we drove it off the lot. The sales guy apologized, saying it just got out of PDI and the charging station was blocked in by other vehicles. Even at 1%, the battery still performed it’s off-the-line duties while the turbo 4 kicked in around 10kmh. It still performed the idle stop and AC didn’t seem affected.
At 8pm, we hooked up the charger for the first time. The 4Xe comes standard with a Class I charger that plugs into a standard 120v plug and approx. 15’ of cable from the transformer to the connector.
The spec says 14 hours for a full charge cycle with the Class 1 charger.
There’s a bank of 5 LED lights on the dash. When you start charging a dead battery, one LED starts flashing until it shines steady then the second one starts flashing and so on until the fourth one is flashing. The 5th LED is for the Class 2 charging indicator if I remember correctly but I may be wrong there.
So at 8:30am the next day, all LED’s were off, indicating a full charge.
The specs say that you get 40 km on a full battery if you run it on battery only. We had some running around town and we probably put around 40km. The gas engine maybe ran for 2 minutes the whole time…mainly whilst giving her the beans.
So all in all, we’re very happy. I’m not sure how the economics play out…the gasoline engine averages 12L/100km so if we were to drive on gas, we would have used 4.8L of fuel today which would have costed us $1.70x4.8=$8.16 in gas.
We pay something around $.05 per kW/Hr. So do the math….no really you do the math because electrical engineering is voodoo and it sucks and it’s dumb.
OK…I’ll do it…
The 4Xe battery is a 17kW/Hr battery, so the cost to charge it should be around $.05x17= $.85 unless I’m doing electrical math wrong which is highly likely because it’s dumb.
So that’s our experience so far in the short time we’ve had it.
It was a beautiful late-autumn day in Metro Van, purfect for some Roadster noises! Also cow-fart smells.
All I see in the next one is my shadow sad trombone @Photography fail!
Does anybody REALLY know who they are?
UPPU all the things!
H/T to @Taylor-Martin for creating our new crabby overlord.
@texturedsoyprotein
Under the Sí
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Hello? Is this thing on?
@exage03040 Checo forgot to pack his chair!
@highlander Sergio 'Otaku' Perez
Everyone's favorite underdog, Sergio Perez, crashed out of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
You have to watch this clip to see how forlorn he seems
He waited quite awhile for his Uber to arrive. Lucky he had the Jumbo Screen to pass the time. He must have left his phone in his other pants.
So....what do you thing Checo was watching?
Feel free to photoshop what YOU think he should have been watching
@farscythe Yeah I've got a half mask and a full mask like that one.
I think the guys at the pulp mill would look at me funny if i wore my GP-7 around the plant 
@farscythe
Oh...I forgot. I was like Hell yeah! I've got that gas mask!....but sadly those are GP-5's and I have a GP-7.
