Byron drives Jeep's Magneto 2.0 concept in Moab at the 2022 Easter Jeep Safari. Is it a novelty or the real deal?
He glances at me for a moment, then looks toward the windshield and gestures broadly at the landscape. “It doesn’t matter. ATrue though that may be, this is no generic Wrangler I’m piloting. It’s the Magneto 2.0, which is Jeep’s second crack at an all-electric 4x4 concept., strictly speaking, but it has come a long way in a year. Version 1.0 boasted 285 horsepower and 273 pound-feet of torque; for 2.0, that’s now 625 horses and 850 lb-ft.
The cool part is, this makes the Magneto’s manual the easiest one on the planet to use. Since there’s no engine idle to maintain, it can’t be stalled. The clutch exists only to decouple the transmission from the driveline in order to shift gears, which you never really need to do . On paper, this should be the most engaging EV on Earth. In practice, the gearbox is a red herring; you simply pick the gear you want and press the throttle.
Knowing that doesn’t make it any less weird. Muscle memory kicks in every time the Magneto feels like it might bog down going uphill or when creeping over an obstacle. Neurons in some dark corner of my brain have fibers in my left leg on high alert, anticipating the lugging and eventual stall that never comes.
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