The 2025 Ram 1500 REV electrical pickup may have a extra conservative look than the Revolution idea truck proven earlier this 12 months and a focused vary of 800 kilomtres with its largest battery pack — numbers that can greatest its rivals.
Ram stated the REV will supply a normal 168-kilowatt-hour battery pack with a spread goal of as much as 560 kilometres, whereas it is aiming for as much as 800 kilometres with the elective 229-kWh battery pack. An extended-range model with a gasoline-powered engine to cost the battery is also within the works, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares stated.
The REV, Ram’s first battery-electric pickup, was slated to debut Wednesday morning on the New York Worldwide Auto Present.
Scheduled to go on sale in late 2024, the REV made a quick look within the model’s Tremendous Bowl advert in February. Ram leveraged the sport’s large viewers to jump-start reservations and the REV offered out in three days. Model CEO Mike Koval Jr., highlighting the joy across the car, famous that the push of preorders occurred even earlier than Ram launched the truck’s efficiency metrics.
“There’s one thing about how we have gone to market and the message that we have conveyed to not solely our present clients, but in addition future clients, that has resonated,” Koval advised sibling publication Automotive Information final month. “It has been overwhelming. The early curiosity in that individual truck has exceeded our expectations.”
Stellantis is becoming a member of the electrical pickup race later than its rivals, however executives say this has given the automaker time to gauge them and work to surpass them in key areas comparable to vary, towing, payload and cost time.
The 800-kilometre vary for the REV’s 229-kWh battery pack and its focused 6,350 kilograms of towing capability exceed what’s in the marketplace now. Chevrolet goes after 9,070 kilograms of towing for the work truck variant of its 2025 Silverado EV pickup.
Ram stated it’s aiming for the REV to ship a 0-to-100 km/h time of 4.4 seconds, 654 hp and 620 pound-feet of torque. It is designed to ford as much as 24 inches (63 centimetres) of water and carry a most payload of 1,225 kilograms.
Koval has stated the REV is a “direct descendant” of the edgy Revolution idea truck that debuted in January at CES in Las Vegas. This affect is obvious on the REV’s face, with its “tuning fork” lighting scheme and lit “RAM” brand.
The physique form, nevertheless, is nearer to its standard gasoline counterparts.
Different Revolution options omitted embody the detachable third-row bounce seats and Ram Observe, a rail attachment system that enables the seats and console to be repositioned for larger cabin flexibility.
Tavares stated the fantastic thing about an idea car such because the Revolution is that it permits automakers to “present the best way and free our imaginations,” even when each concept does not make it into manufacturing immediately.
“You do not discover 100 per cent of the improvements of an idea automobile on the subsequent era,” Tavares stated at a digital roundtable in February. “You discover a few of it, hopefully lots of it, however not all the things.
“That may then be unfold by way of the life cycle administration of that product and the subsequent era of merchandise,” he stated.
Ram’s REV is constructed on the brand new STLA Body platform for full-size body-on-frame EVs. Each battery choices can replenish as much as 175 kilometres of vary in roughly 10 minutes with 800-volt DC quick charging at as much as 350 kilowatts.
The REV lineup contains 5 trim ranges, topped by the Tungsten, which features a energy tailgate and 23-speaker sound system. Its entrance trunk presents 15 cubic toes of storage.
Patrons can select both a 12-inch or 14.5-inch infotainment contact display screen. The automaker additionally put a ten.25-inch contact display screen on the passenger aspect that enables for controlling the navigation system and viewing exterior cameras.
Connecting a telephone or pill to the HDMI port turns the passenger contact display screen right into a “mirrored extension of their gadget, permitting web searches, music and app use to challenge by way of the Uconnect 5 system,” Ram stated.
The REV encompasses a hands-free energetic driving help system and ParkSense automated parking system. Ram stated the energetic driving help is out there for each hands-on-wheel and hands-free driving utilizing lane centering with adaptive cruise management.
“All of our autos have a really robust id it doesn’t matter what worth class they’re,” stated Mark Trostle, vice chairman of the Ram Truck design studio. “With the REV, we wished to proceed that as properly and do one thing that was very Ram-like and really true to what the car is.”