2021-2024 Jeep Wrangler 4xe recalled, owners told not to charge

Simply forward of the Thanksgiving vacation weekend, Stellantis issued a recall that advises house owners of some Jeep Wrangler 4xe plug-in hybrids to not plug in—and tells them to not park the SUV close to buildings or different vehicles.

In 32,125 Wrangler 4xe fashions—sure fashions from the 2021-2024 mannequin years—a possible battery challenge may result in a automobile hearth, in response to the automaker. 

Eight automobile fires have occurred as a result of challenge, in response to the corporate. All of those fashions have been parked on the time, with six nonetheless related to chargers. 

2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe

The affected Jeep Wrangler 4xe fashions could also be pushed within the meantime, Stellantis says, albeit with these warnings to skip the charging and park the automobile with some area round it.

Outdoors the U.S., Stellantis can also be recalling Wrangler 4xe fashions—an estimated 3,856 in Canada, and 9,249 exterior North America.

Drivers of the recalled Wranglers might want to schedule a service go to with the dealership, the place diagnostic software program will likely be flashed to the automobile—figuring out whether or not or not the automobile is among the many one % of the recalled group (roughly 300 automobiles) that Stellantis suspects have the defect and can want a brand new battery pack. 

2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe

Stellantis confirmed to Inexperienced Automobile Experiences that that is unrelated to final 12 months’s recall of some 2023 and 2023 Wrangler 4xe fashions on account of an assembly-related issue with the battery fuse that, Jeep cautioned, may generate extreme warmth. That recall challenge was expanded in April 2023. 

An excellent bigger group of Wrangler 4xe SUVs was recalled in November 2022—in that case, on account of a problem that would throw the hybrid system into a failsafe mode and an engine shutdown. 

All of those recollects cowl a subset of Wrangler 4xe gross sales. Within the U.S., the Wrangler 4xe is the top-selling plug-in hybrid—above fashions just like the Toyota RAV4 Prime—and it got a price cut for 2024. 

2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe

The Wrangler 4xe goes 22 miles in its electrical mode, on plug-in power, then will get 20 mpg mixed as a hybrid, in response to the EPA. In a 2023 Wrangler 4xe test drive, Inexperienced Automobile Experiences discovered that this mannequin’s effectivity got here at no expense of functionality, though its effectivity when not utilizing plug-in power isn’t significantly better than a non-hybrid. So house owners might really feel compelled to get this recall repair as quickly as doable and get again to having fun with the electrical facet of the Wrangler.