Ram will use the 2023 Shopper Electronics Present on subsequent week in Las Vegas to current its 1500 Revolution BEV, an idea truck previewing a possible design for an electrical 1500 due in 2024.

Ram refers back to the electrical 1500 as a 1500 BEV, however the firm lately made strikes to guard the title 1500 REV.

As first famous by Automotive Buzz, Ram on Dec. 23 filed trademark safety for 1500 REV with the US Patent and Trademark Workplace, underneath the part for land automobiles, particularly, passenger vehicles.

A trademark submitting should not be taken as a sign the trademarked time period will really be used. Automakers will typically trademark a time period to guard mental property, whether or not they plan to make use of it or not.

Nevertheless, there’s the likelihood REV would be the time period Ram makes use of for range-extended electrical automobiles, with BEV remaining for battery-electric automobiles. Ram CEO Mike Koval, Jr. informed Motor Authority at April’s 2022 New York auto present {that a} range-extended Ram truck was deliberate. He stated it can arrive alongside the electrical 1500, although he did not say whether or not it is going to be a part of the 1500 household or a distinct line of Ram vehicles.

He did nevertheless say {that a} range-extended Ram would “have the whole lot a BEV does however extra,” in reference to functionality and extra importantly, vary. It is attainable Ram finally ends up advertising the electrical 1500 towards way of life patrons and the range-extended truck towards patrons seeking to tow or haul heavy masses—conditions that may severely deplete an EV’s battery.