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 automobiles.

In 32,125 Wrangler 4xe fashions—sure fashions from the 2021-2024 mannequin years—a possible battery difficulty might result in a car fireplace, in line with the automaker. 

Eight car fires have occurred because of the difficulty, in line with the corporate. All of those fashions had 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 car with some house round it.

Outdoors the U.S., Stellantis can be recalling Wrangler 4xe fashions—an estimated 3,856 in Canada, and 9,249 outdoors 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 car—figuring out whether or not or not the car 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 Automotive Reviews that that is unrelated to final yr’s recall of some 2023 and 2023 Wrangler 4xe fashions on account of an assembly-related difficulty with the battery fuse that, Jeep cautioned, might generate extreme warmth. That recall difficulty 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 might throw the hybrid system right 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 received a worth reduce for 2024. 

2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe

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