The first battery-electric version of the Ram 1500 pickup will hit the market in 2024.
Speaking to Automotive News, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares said the automaker’s Ram sub-brand is currently developing a battery-electric full-size pickup of its own that will go on sale sometime in 2024. Tavares’ comments were made after General Motors debuted its new 2024 Chevy Silverado EV at CES 2022 in Las Vegas last week.
Stellantis teaser for future Ram 1500 EV
While the battery-electric Ram 1500 will hit the market after the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV and Ford F-150 Lightning, Tavares said this allows his company to take stock of the competition and respond accordingly – a strategy that could be effective considering the competition-driven nature of the pickup market.
Stellantis STLA Frame EV truck platform
Stellantis laid out its future EV strategy last summer, divulging plans to invest more than 30 billion euros through 2025 in electrification and software. The automaker said its EVs will target real-world range between 300 and 500 miles and will feature fast charging capability of 20 miles (32 km) per minute. The automaker also shared new EV-focused marketing taglines for its various brands last summer, including for Ram, which will use the “Built to Serve a Sustainable Planet” slogan to promote its EV transition.
General Motors is the fastest mover with regard to battery-electric trucks among the Detroit Big Three. The GMC Hummer EV Pickup began rolling off the assembly line in December 2021, with the automaker making the first customer deliveries before the end of the year. The Ford F-150 Lightning, by comparison, won’t enter production until later this year. Production of the Chevy Silverado EV, which will be built alongside the Hummer EV Pickup at GM’s Factory Zero plant in Michigan, will commence in early 2023.
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Considering how long it is taking everyone to get EV trucks to market, it isn’t like Ram is late to the party.
They’re gonna put the batteries in the glove compartment, an industry 1st!
Tiny let’s also hope that it can blow the doors off a Hellcat… And not have more recalls then Carter has pills 😂 lol. My friend owns a RAM 1500 and it’s a beautiful truck inside and out but it’s always at the dealership for recalls. RAM can’t have this reputation while diving head first into the EV segment.. they gotta shack that off, I am not saying that Ford and GM are perfect but like Mr Mike said while everyone else was going green Chrysler, RAM, Dodge, and Jeep where building quarter mile rocket ships… Now they must play catch up. Chrysler should also build a Pacifica EV as well it makes sense.
well the GM trucks are also in trouble quality speaking. collapsed lifters, wiring grmlins and 8 speed transmissions that are failing worse than the 90’s Dodge Overdrives. Not that ford is much better with ecoboosts locking up when water pumps fail because of terrible design, or multiple turbo leaks buried deep. or worse cam phasers in the sparkplugs shooting tritons of a few years back.
They’re saying in 2022 that they’re hoping for a 2025 model released in 2024. I bet they’re off by at least a year.
The reality is FCA was busy putting Hellcat engines in everything while GM and Ford were heavily investing in EV. Stellantis is going after EV but they will be 2-3 years behind Ford and GM. The only thing that is going to help Stellantis is the chip shortage making it so that Ford and GM may not be able to meet the demand anyways.
Busy putting hellcat engines that were selling might want to add that buddy.
Let’s hope theirs looks like more like a truck, and not a ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong like the avalanche ev.
Blah, it’s still a Dodge.🤮🤢
That thing got a Hemi in it?
Yes, a hemispherical battery pack……
I am a little disappointed as they are still using a ladder frame. With Stellantis involved I expected a dedicated platform much like GM has and Ford is now working on.
GM never said much on the Chevy but they did show on the Hummer how stiff the platform is. That is one thing the EV does have going for it.
That is a curious decision. With very few exceptions, full size pick ups and utilities have had ladder frames. IMO, it’s to take advantage of quick changes in production and also for how these vehicles have been assembled for so long. It also does resonate with some buyers. About the only IMO major advantage that GM full size vans hold is their body on frame construction. Some buyers want that for trailer towing. There are people out there that put that as a priority and unibody vehicles come off as a compromise. That said, it is an odd looking frame. Pick up frames have been recognized as flexible for some time. If I recall correctly, Toyota caught grief over bed contact in the real life. It was the combination of flex in frame, compliance in mounts and owners on washboards and twisting situations. But that flex has always been dealt with but spreading it and leaving a gap. With a battery pack extending so far across so much area underneath, don’t see how it will work with the frame flex. They must have some sort of work around in mind already. But that sort of stuff adds weight. I guess some people are just ignoring it during the first few generations of EVs. IMO, hate it all you want but EV trucks are one market that will eventually see the end of high production framed vehicles. Just can’t leave all the weight in the product when there is a better solution.
The GM platform is not unibody. The battery and frame are a boxed section that the body bolts to making it much stiffer than the Ladder frame.
The problem has been the flex. Some Fords now let the bed hit the cab.
The GM platform will not twist and hold its form letting the suspension do its work. Like race cars a great handling vehicle has a stiff platform. The ride today is handled by the suspension if it is done right.
The battery box in aluminum is light and more structslky sound so it is the best solution.
Excuse the music attached to the video. What I was referring to is that this sort of motion and twisting has been common on trucks for decades. With battery boxes and how they will be mounted, don’t see how it can work since the flex would have less frame length to work with. So why even bother with it all? And that must part of the reason why the midgate was enabled as a design feature. The bed will be integrated.
If designed properly in a perfect world truck should not be doing this. What you are watching is the weakness of the frame. Most common in C channel ladders and less in boxed but still some flex,
This is the weakness of a ladder frame as it would be too heavy and expensive to fix this with steel.
But in the case of the new GM platform they needed a battery box so they designed the box to be the frame and box in one. This is also why they joined the cab and bed as there is no flex to damage the body as there might be with the solid bed and cab.
The suspension should absorb the bumps and the chassis should remain firm. With the weight of the battery the suspensions should be more settled than they have been now. Even now adding a 100 pound weight to the bed improves ride.
The midgate has never been spoken of but I suspect the cab flex in the Avalanche created issues. With this new set up it will be a solid platform that will give it support to make this work.
There are videos on the web of articulation ramps and they show how much a truck flexes. You can see how much it flexes. The Ford flexed so much it popped the tailgate open and the bed hit the cab. The Chevy just lifted the wheel off the ground.
That thing got a Hemi in it?
RAM hasn’t been a Dodge sub brand in years and has it’s own VIN unless Stellantis has changed this? This is crappy journalism.
It is very interesting that these 7500 pound EV pickups are rated by politicians, including in California, as being more ecological than ICE pickups.