Ram ends EV pickup truck plans

The all-electric Ram 1500 REV pickup motortruck is dead. Long unrecorded the extended-range Ram 1500 REV (once called the Ramcharger).

Stellantis, the genitor institution of Ram, said Friday that it volition nary longer make a battery-electric full-size pickup. The institution cited debased request for full-size battery-electric trucks arsenic the superior reason, according to a connection sent to TechCrunch and posted connected its website.

“As request for full-size battery-electric trucks slows successful North America, Stellantis is reassessing its merchandise strategy and volition discontinue improvement of a full-size BEV pickup,” the company’s connection reads. “As portion of this, Ram is renaming its REEV-powered pickup to Ram 1500 REV (formerly Ramcharger). This conveyance volition acceptable a caller benchmark successful the half-ton segment, offering exceptional range, towing capableness and payload performance.”

If the sanction swap is confusing, it’s due to the fact that it is. But present is what’s worthy knowing. Stellantis canceled plans to make a artillery electrical pickup and volition alternatively prosecute an extended-range motortruck that gets an estimated 690 miles of scope done a caller — but not unheard of — attack of combining a artillery with a state generator.

The Ram 1500 all-electric pickup was portion of genitor institution Stellantis’ U.S. merchandise violative to merchantability much than 25 all-new BEVs by the extremity of the decade. But its aboriginal has been successful question for months now.

After a splashy uncover astatine CES 2023, and other showcases successful the months that followed, Stellantis wavered connected its EV motortruck plans. Stellantis initially said it would statesman producing the conveyance successful 2024. That day soon slipped to 2025.

By the extremity of 2024, Stellantis delayed plans to make the broad-shouldered pickup loaded with tech, a longer compartment with third-row leap seats, and 2 monolithic and industry-busting artillery battalion options. At the time, Stellantis said it would propulsion its motorboat into 2026.

A Stellantis spokesperson confirmed that the automaker inactive plans to statesman accumulation of the extended-range Ram 1500 successful 2026.