I took a new Jeep Grand Cherokee 4Xe as a rental vehicle and those things are really crappy. Jeep needs to spend a lot of time fine tuning the power delivery and the ICE/EV transition. Neither of those were smooth and it was a very clunky ride. I really wanted to like it but it was garbage. The battery seemed a bit too small with only about 30 miles of EV range. I also realized that paying for public charging is actually more expensive than just running it in hybrid mode. I paid just under $7 for a full charge to get 29 miles of range. When driving in hybrid mode with a depleted battery I was doing 25 to 26 mpg and it was only $4 per gallon for fuel.
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