A truth about transmission types in Jeeps was revealed to me long ago in a high mountain pass. On a particularly steep climb with the transfer case in high range and my manual transmission in 3rd with the engine desperately in need of a downshift, I dropped it to 2nd as quick as I could, but even that rapid clutch and drop of thrust cost me a huge amount of momentum. My buddy crawled past in his automatic transmission Jeep. Lesson learned. Granted, these were naturally aspirated Jeeps in thin air, so fuel injected newer models would probably have done better. Anyway, to me this idea of an electric Jeep with a manual transmission doesn't really make much sense.