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The Ram 1500 REV electric ute is now planned to launch in the United States in 2025.
The launch of the Ram 1500 REV electric ute – and the Ramcharger range-extender – in the United States has been delayed.
Ram parent Stellantis has confirmed the 1500 REV will launch in 2025, missing the end of the 2024 timeframe announced when it was unveiled in February 2023.
It will be joined by the Ram 1500 Ramcharger range-extender, with both vehicles to be based on the new STLA Frame platform – rather than the architecture used in the current Ram 1500.
In a conference detailing the STLA Frame platform, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares told US media including Motor1 the company has a “very significant” workload and it wants to be “prudent” when validating its products.
“We are very focused on the execution of our plan, despite all the difficult challenges that the industry is facing,” said Tavares.
“We are just facing a very significant amount of workload, and we want to be very prudent in the way we validate the products, so we take our time.
“We are managing the peak between the products that we have ahead of us.”
It follows a halt in production for the REV’s main rival, the Ford F-150 Lightning, for six weeks between 18 November 2024 and 6 January 2025 “for an optimal mix of sales growth and profitability”.
The STLA Frame platform has been announced for Ram and Jeep vehicles – the 1500 REV and Ramcharger are the first models – with internal combustion, range-extender and full-electric support.
It will also support hydrogen fuel-cell and petrol-electric hybrid powertrains.
Stellantis claims STLA Frame will support up to an 800-kilometre EV range, a 1.2-tonne payload, a 6350-kilogram towing capacity, and a 400- or 800-volt electrical architecture with 350kW DC fast charging.
The Ram 1500 REV could be converted to right-hand drive and sold in Australia – like the petrol-powered models – but nothing has been officially confirmed.
While the production 1500 REV uses STLA Frame – not the existing Ram 1500’s older frame platform – it has the same bodywork as the internal-combustion model with new front and rear designs.
It will be available in five variants at launch: Tradesman, Big Horn, Laramie, Limited and Tungsten.
The 1500 REV will launch with a 168kWh battery pack – larger than the Ford F-150 Lightning, Tesla Cybertruck and Rivian R1T – while an extended-range 229kWh unit, the largest battery of any electric vehicle so far, will become available in 2026.
Ram claims variants with the extended-range battery can travel 800 kilometres unladen on a single charge.
The Ram 1500 Ramcharger – borrowing its name from a Dodge four-wheel-drive sold in the 1970s to 1990s – is related to the REV but adds a 3.6-litre naturally-aspirated V6 acting as a generator to charge the high-voltage battery.
It has a 92kWh battery pack and a 130kW generator unit, with a 494kW and 834Nm total system output from two electric motors for a 4.4-second 0-60mph (97km/h) acceleration time.
STLA Frame is one of five new architectures announced by Stellantis, with the unibody STLA Small, STLA Medium and STLA Large platforms used for passenger vehicles.
The STLA Small and STLA Medium architectures have been primarily developed for the European market with technologies derived from the existing CMP (small) and EMP2 (medium) platforms used in Peugeot and Citroen vehicles.
In contrast, STLA Large will be used first in the North American market with the new Dodge Charger and Jeep Wagoneer S being the first vehicles underpinned by the platform.
Jordan is a motoring journalist based in Melbourne with a lifelong passion for cars. He has been surrounded by classic Fords and Holdens, brand-new cars, and everything in between from birth, with his parents’ owning an automotive workshop in regional Victoria. Jordan started writing about cars in 2021, and joined the Drive team in 2024.
