A manual transmission, at that — sourced from a Hellcat and dubbed “Tranzilla,” it’s further reinforced above and beyond Hellcat duty in order to handle the Magneto’s monster torque.

This powered, the Magneto could accelerate from a standing stop to 60 mph in a claimed 6.8 seconds. The motor was mated to an old-school six-speed manual gearbox and the stout Rubicon running gear.

While the Magneto will never see production, it does open up two whole new ideas in off-roading. First, the manual transmission as gear-multiplier behind an electric motor. Second—and an even ...

including the all-electric Wrangler Magneto. While it won’t blow people’s minds with the technologies it utilizes, the fact that it features a manual gearbox is a breath of fresh air for the ...

IN practically every motor-car the ignition of the explosive mixture is effected by means of an electric spark produced by a small generating device called a magneto. During recent years ...

And with so much available torque, you could feasibly start the Magneto in any gear to get it off the line, too. While the manual is a fun experiment in a prototype car, the likely replacement ...

Of those such concepts to be shown at this year's gathering is the Wrangler-based Magneto concept is of particular interest—first, because it's electric, and second, becauseit has a manual ...

Like the original Magneto, the second generation still features a manual transmission, this time a 6-speed unit pulled from Dodge’s Challenger Hellcat to handle the massive power output.

Arriving as our first taste of what Jeep’s future might look like, the Magneto concept is an entirely electric off-roader complete with a six-speed manual gearbox. Thanks to four 800-volt ...