A First Look At The Manufacturing-Prepared Prolonged Vary Truck

• Stellantis quietly debuted the manufacturing model of the delayed RAM 1500 REV extended-range electrical pickup.
• The unique model of the truck, referred to as the Ram 1500 Ramcharger, was unveiled in 2023.
• The now-renamed Ram 1500 REV is predicted to enter manufacturing within the second half of the 12 months as a 2027 mannequin.

The range-extended model of the Ram 1500 electrical pickup is actual, regardless of it being unveiled again in 2023 and seemingly regularly delayed. Initially referred to as the Ram 1500 Ramcharger, the now-renamed Ram 1500 REV made a shock–albeit low-key–look at this 12 months’s Detroit Auto Show.

It’s the primary public look of a production-ready unit of the extended-range truck, and it comes with one more small delay as an asterisk. As uncovered by MoparInsidersthe American-made mannequin is now anticipated to enter manufacturing at Stellantis’ Sterling Heights Meeting Plant in Michigan within the second half of the 12 months as a 2027 mannequin. Beforehand, the Ram 1500 REV was anticipated to roll off the meeting line within the first half of the 12 months as a 2026 mannequin.

That’s three years after the unique truck debuted, however it nonetheless means Ram would be the first American automaker to promote an extended-range pickup in the US. Regardless of the a number of delays, the Ram 1500 REV will arrive at dealerships earlier than Scout’s gas-assisted fashionsthat are scheduled to go on sale subsequent 12 months.

Such a powertrain, which mixes an electrical chassis with a fuel engine that acts as a generator, is predicted to draw extra consumers than conventional EVs just because there’s a fuel tank concerned, and drivers can simply replenish and overlook about vary and charger anxiousness. Stellar touts a most vary of 690 miles on a full cost and a full tank of fuel, however it’s value remembering that the Ram 1500 REV is basically an EV that simply occurs to have an onboard fuel generator. In EV mode, the battery gives an estimated 145 miles of vary.

The truck is powered by a hefty 92-kilowatt-hour battery nestled between the chassis rails. It doesn’t protrude into the inside, leaving the ground utterly flat, and it sends energy to a pair of electrical drive modules–a 250 kW unit on the entrance and a 248 kW unit on the rear. Mixed, the extended-range Ram 1500 places down 647 horsepower and 610 pound-feet of torque.

The 2027 Ram 1500 REV has a CCS1 charging port, and never a Tesla-style NACS port.

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As a result of it’s an EV at coronary heart, it has a CCS1 charging port on the entrance left that may soak up as much as 145 kW of energy from a DC quick charger, including as much as 50 miles of electrical vary in 10 minutes. Nonetheless, if there are not any chargers round, the three.6-liter Pentastar V-6 engine kicks in and spins a 130 kW generator to ship energy to the battery and hold shifting, however there’s no mechanical connection between the engine and the wheels.

The REV model of the favored full-size truck is ready aside from its gas-powered siblings by an illuminated entrance grille, a bespoke entrance bumper and a bunch of REV badges scattered all through the outside and inside. There’s additionally a charging port door, and the wheels are secured with eight lugs as a substitute of the six-lug setup discovered on the normal pickup.

The 2027 Ram 1500 REV can be provided completely as a four-door Crew Cab with a 5-foot, 7-inch mattress. With a Class 5 hitch, Ram is concentrating on best-in-class towing of as much as 14,000 kilos, whereas the utmost payload is predicted to be 2,625 kilos.

The range-extended Ram 1500 can be provided in a number of trim ranges, however pricing has not been introduced but.