It’s a smart, well appointed small SUV that blends urban smarts with off-road abilities.
Jeep’s Renegade 4xe is more though: it is the first model to usher in the electric era for the original offroad brand.
The smallest and most affordable Jeep is thus now one of the most important, and one of the most technically bold.
Jeep has wisely chosen to kick off the transition with a plug-in hybrid, putting Renegade up against the likes of Toyota’s RAV4. In Europe it also goes up against the Mini CountrymanA114. Hmmmm.
The Italian-built, Fiatplatformed Renegade was unveiled in 2014, and in its second full calendar year on sale