Yahoo Autos 2024 Jeep Wagoneer S Comes into Focus as May 30 Reveal Approaches
The new Jeep Wagoneer S is quickly approaching its official reveal, which will be held next Thursday, May 30.
Jeep today released a teaser video that shows the electric Wagoneer racing a Tesla Model Y Performance, and it also confirms more specs.
Along with 300-plus miles of estimated range, the 2024 Wagoneer S has 617 pound-feet of torque and can go from zero to 60 mph in a claimed 3.4 seconds.
The Jeep Wagoneer S will be the first all-electric model the brand sells to a U.S. audience. That much we already knew. However, as the Wagoneer EV fast approaches its May 30 reveal date, Jeep has released a teaser video that confirms more specs to supplement the details we learned back in January, including that it'll be a 2024 model versus a 2025.
The nearly two-minute video that was posted on YouTube and Jeep's other social-media accounts takes place at Willow Springs raceway in California. A small disclaimer at the beginning read's dramatization—which definitely foreshadows the tone. It's posted below so you can see for yourself. But the short-and-sweet version is that the Jeep Wagoneer S is pitted against a Tesla Model Y Performance in a mock race.
The video doesn't end with a clear winner, but the Wagoneer S is seen pulling ahead in the last shot, with Jeep revealing a claimed zero-to-60-mph time of 3.4 seconds—a tenth quicker than earlier claims. With an electric motor on each axle, the all-wheel-drive Wagoneer S will have 600 horsepower. We had heard that figure before, but its torque output is 617 pound-feet of breaking news. That's also 28 shy of the Hellcat V-8-powered Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk, which rises from the dead to make a cameo.
When Jeep first showed off the Wagoneer S concept back in 2022, it had a target range of 400 miles. That estimate has since gone the way of the Hemi V-8, and now Jeep is expecting the electric Wagoneer to get "300-plus" miles of range when it goes into production sometime this fall. We also expect to learn even more details during next week's reveal.
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