Electric Ram 1500 REV Pickup Delayed Until 2026
The REVolution will have to wait.
Ram has announced that it is pushing back the launch of the all-electric Ram 1500 REV pickup until 2026, citing slowing demand in the full-size electric truck segment. The model was originally scheduled to go on sale before the end of 2024, but it was already set to miss that timeframe.
Ram said it now plans to prioritize the rollout of the Ram 1500 Ramcharger, which was slated to follow the Ram 1500 REV to market next year. The announcement comes less than two weeks after retired Stellantis executive Tim Kuniskis returned to the company as Ram CEO.
The Ram 1500 Ramcharger is what’s known as an extended-range electric vehicle or series hybrid. It primarily operates as an electric. vehicle, but is equipped with a V6 engine that can be used as a generator for long trips. The engine can not be used to drive the wheels directly, only to run a generator that can maintain the level of charge in the battery or provide extra power when needed.
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The Ram 1500 Ramcharger has a 70.8 kWh battery pack that should be good for around 145 miles of driving on its own, but also a 27-gallon gas tank for the V6 that gives it an overall range of 690 miles, plus the ability to be refilled with gas quickly between charging sessions. The idea is that it can be used as a fully electric vehicle most of the time while retaining the ability to go on long trips and tow large trailers without range anxiety.
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The Ram 1500 REV is also being designed as a long hauler with up to 500 miles of unladen range, but only thanks to an enormous 229-kWh battery pack that is expensive to build, extremely heavy and requires long charging sessions. The Ram 1500 Ramcharger and Ram 1500 REV are built on a shared platform known as the STLA Frame (STLA being short for Ram’s parent company Stellantis), which can also accommodate a pure internal combustion engine powertrain.
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Ram will continue to offer Ram 1500 pickups powered by V6 engines and the more powerful turbocharged 3.0 straight-six-cylinder engines that replaced V8s or 2025, but they haven’t technically moved to the STLA Frame. Ram still sells V8-powered heavy-duty trucks, but has not made any announcements about eight-cylinder engines returning to the light duty Ram 1500 lineup.
The Ram 1500 REV was previewed by a futuristic concept truck called the Ram 1500 Revolution that debuted at CES in 2023. The truck features sleek styling and three rows of seating in the cabin, but the production Ram 1500 REV uses the current Ram 1500 body.
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Ram’s move on the Ram 1500 Ramcharger comes a day after sister-company Jeep announced that it is bringing back a version of the Wrangler that was discontinued in September. Jeep planned to only offer V6-powered Wranglers with a six-speed manual transmission for 2025, but will now also offer it with the eight-speed automatic that was previously available, citing feedback from customers.
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