Jeep’s first electric SUV is coming in 2023

Jeep, the iconic American brand owned by Stellantis, has revealed the first photos of its upcoming electric SUV. The company did not share any other details or even the name of the vehicle, but confirmed that the new EV will be launched in 2023.

Jeep is slower to adopt electrification than many of its competitors. The carmaker has released plug-in hybrid versions of its Wrangler and Grand Cherokee SUVs and is planning an off-road version of the Grand Cherokee, Trailhawk, which is also available with a hybrid engine.

But the unnamed SUV, due out next year, will be Jeep’s first all-electric battery-powered car. The carmaker recently announced that it will release zero-emission versions of all its vehicles by 2025, along with hybrid variants.

The new Jeep EV will be included in last year’s comprehensive plan of Stellantis, the multinational conglomerate that formed last year when Fiat Chrysler merged with France’s PSA Group to electrify the range of most of its brands. This includes EV versions of the Ram 1500 pickup and the Dodge electric muscle car.

On Tuesday, Stellantis also annoyed the upcoming Ram 1500 truck with images showing the car’s lighting settings. The image seems to be just a design sketch, leaving open the possibility that Ram has not yet determined the final shape of his upcoming electric truck. Ram is also making an electric delivery van ProMaster, which will be included in Amazon’s fleet from 2023.

Both the Jeep EV and the Ram 1500 EV are likely to use Stellantis’ STLA platform, which is one of four platforms used by the carmaker for the upcoming range of electric vehicles.

As noted by Street showDaniel Golson, Stellantis has in fact left in some of the car’s design outlines a teaser image that shows more of the truck than the carmaker’s marketing team would probably prefer.

Updated on March 1 3:47 PM ET: Updated to include a tweet from Daniel Golson.