Jeep is including a new diesel option for its pickup truck, with the 2021 Gladiator EcoDiesel headed to dealerships later this year. One of the dear crucial-requested alternatives, Jeep claims, for its long-anticipated truck, the EcoDiesel will use a 3.0-liter turbocharged V6 to give a valuable uptick in torque as compared to the gasoline engine.
Since it launched in 2019, the Gladiator has been supplied with a single engine. The 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 – paired with both a 6-velocity manual transmission or an 8-velocity automatic – is accurate for 285 horsepower and 260 lb-toes of torque.
When as compared, the EcoDiesel Gladiator will offer extra torque, at 442 lb-toes, and never more horsepower, at 260 hp. There’ll be no manual option, Jeep says: as an replacement, it’ll pair the diesel with a TorqueFlite 8HP75 8-velocity automatic as frequent. That resolution, the automaker claims, is down to the extra torque that the gearbox wishes to handle.
It won’t be a easy automatic, on the opposite hand. Jeep says that it has calibrated it with low RPM shifts in mind, to boot to in consideration of each on- and off-street use of the truck. There’ll be higher than 40 individual shift maps, as an instance, operating the gamut from gasoline economy thru efficiency and 4×4 functionality.
What’s going to be upright as essential to shoppers, even supposing, is overall fluctuate. Jeep says the Gladiator EcoDiesel will offer the preferrred riding fluctuate on a single tank of gasoline for any Gladiator variant. The 2020 Gladiator 3.6-liter V6 is today rated by the EPA for 418 miles of total fluctuate on a beefy gasoline tank.
Jeep isn’t upright changing the engine and transmission. There’s a new use gasoline recirculation system, plus a new Payment Air Cooler, while a 5.1 gallon diesel use fluid (DEF) tank is accurate in the back of the frequent gasoline tank. Its refills will align with oil changes lasting as a lot as 10,000 miles, Jeep says, with a new DEF gauge being added to the motive force’s instrumentation.
Initially, the EcoDiesel will likely be supplied as an option on the Gladiator Sport, Overland, and Rubicon trims. Third-abilities Dana 44 front and rear heavy-responsibility axles are frequent, with a 3.73 axle ratio. Rubicon items accumulate a Rock-Trac two-velocity switch case with a 4.0:1 low-fluctuate tools ratio; Sport and Overland accumulate a Explain-Trac part-time two-velocity switch case with a 2.72:1 low-fluctuate tools ratio.
Orders are being taken from as of late, Jeep says, even supposing the diesel pickups themselves aren’t anticipated in dealerships unless later in Q3 2020. Pricing has now not been confirmed at this stage.
