Like it or not, the first all-electric Jeep Recon is going into production later this year.
On Friday, Jeep held a media press briefing in Michigan, with new brand CEO Antonio Filosa revealing more details about the company’s two upcoming EVs: the Wagoneer S and the Recon. During the event, he once again confirmed the Wagoneer S is coming later this year, with the Recon to follow shortly thereafter.
While exact on-sale timing is still a question mark (and may be a moving target), the upcoming Jeep Recon shown above will finally hit showrooms in calendar year 2025. The automaker also confirmed it will ride on the STLA Large platform, just like the Wagoneer S. STLA Large can support both 400- and 800-volt electrical architectures, as well as battery packs ranging between 85-kWh and 118-kWh. Further technical details are still thin on the ground, but it’s a virtual certainty the Recon will ship with a dual-motor configuration, and will also be a unibody design with four-wheel independent suspension.
On its looks alone, it was clear from the start that the Jeep Recon would be at least a slightly different animal than the gas-powered Wrangler. However, the coming months should finally reveal just how much different this all-electric model will be from its ICE stablemate. After all, the Wagoneer S is more performance-oriented than a big, family-hauling box like the gas model, so there’s plenty of leeway for Jeep to change up the Recon’s ethos from the Wrangler we all know.
When the Wagoneer S arrives later this year, it will be Jeep’s first EV in North America. The Recon will obviously follow that launch, though that’s not where Jeep plans to stop. As part of its ‘Dare Forward 2030’ strategy, parent company Stellantis aims to hybridize all of its existing model lineups, in addition to releasing new BEVs onto the market. That said, we don’t know with absolute certainty how the plug-in hybrid 4xe brand will expand outward. Though the Renegade is already gone, Jeep does sell a Compass 4xe in other markets, but it’s not on the docket to come over here, at time of writing.
One other huge question mark for both the Wagoneer S and the 2025 Jeep Recon: How much will it cost? It’s tough to say since the gasoline Wrangler runs up to nearly $100,000. Right now, the consensus is that Jeep will price the model somewhere between $60,000 and $80,000 for the Recon EV.
