Electric Ram 1500 Appears in Teaser Sketches - Kelley Blue Book

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America’s pickup trucks are going electric.

The three best-selling vehicles in America are all full-size trucks. So, if America’s automakers hope to go all-electric (and they do), they’ll need to convince truck buyers that electric pickups can be every bit as practical, powerful, and fun as the full-size trucks they’re used to.

Third of The Big Three

Ford was the first of America’s Big Three to show off a battery-only pickup, revealing its F-150 Lightning last May. Chevrolet followed last month with an all-electric version of its best-selling Silverado.

Ram will be the last of the Big Three truckmakers to go electric. It doesn’t plan to launch its EV pickup until 2024. Being third has obvious disadvantages. But it has the advantage of seeing what its rivals will offer before going public with its own design.

Ram will milk that play for all the advantage it can get. Parent company Stellantis showed off the first all-electric Jeep this week and announced plans for more electric vehicles (EVs). But it wasn’t willing to show its hand at the electric truck table.

Instead, Ram has released two heavily-shadowed digital renderings.

Sportier Than Current Rams

One shows the truck from its front angle. It’s sleeker than the Ram 1500 the company currently builds. Dog-bone LED headlights pinch in toward a huge RAM logo backlight in red. The hood has what looks like a power bulge, but it likely covers a front trunk, as all the bits that make an EV go fit underneath the truck’s floor. The greenhouse is long and sleek, looking more sporty than bulky.

A rear angle looks a bit more conventional, though it’s heavily shadowed as well. Big dogleg LED taillights from another backlit red RAM logo. The fenders may be flared out a bit more than current Ram designs.

That’s nearly all we get for now. Ram has trademarked the name “Ram Revolution,” which may hint at the trucks’ name or a marketing campaign. It rides on Stellantis’s new STLA frame platform. The automaker claims the platform is capable of up to 500 miles of driving range. But we’re a long way from the day the EPA can test that claim.

Both the Silverado EV and the F-150 Lightning come in basic work truck editions for around $40,000 and in more luxurious trims that can push close to six figures. Ram will likely follow suit. We’ll bring more information as we get it.

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Jeep's first electric SUV is coming in 2023 - The Verge

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Jeep, the iconic American brand owned by Stellantis, revealed the first images of its upcoming electric SUV. The company isn’t sharing any other details or even the vehicle’s name, but it did confirm that the new EV will launch in 2023.

Jeep has been slower to embrace electrification as compared to many of its rivals. The automaker has released plug-in hybrid versions of its Wrangler and Grand Cherokee SUVs and plans an off-roading version of the Grand Cherokee, the Trailhawk, which also comes with a hybrid motor.

But the unnamed SUV coming out next year will be Jeep’s first purely battery-electric vehicle. The automaker recently announced that it would release “zero-emission” versions of all of its vehicles by 2025, along with plug-hybrid variants.

The new Jeep EV would fall within the comprehensive plan last year by Stellantis, the multi-national conglomeration that formed last year when Fiat Chrysler merged with the French PSA Group, to electrify the lineups at most of its brands. That includes EV versions of the Ram 1500 pickup truck and an electric Dodge muscle car.

On Tuesday, Stellantis also teased the upcoming Ram 1500 truck with images showing off the vehicle’s lighting setup. The image appears to be just a design sketch, leaving open the possibility that Ram has yet to settle on a final form of its upcoming electric truck. Ram is also making an electric ProMaster delivery van that will be incorporated into Amazon’s fleet starting in 2023.

Both the Jeep EV and Ram 1500 EV will likely use Stellantis’ STLA platform, which is one of four platforms used by the automaker for its upcoming lineup of EVs.

As noted by Roadshow’s Daniel Golson, Stellantis actually left in some of the vehicle’s design outlines in the teaser image, which show more of the truck than the automaker’s marketing team probably would have preferred.

Ram released two new teasers of the upcoming 1500 EV and they accidentally (?) left a bunch of paths in the file that show more details of the design. The paths were weirdly not scaled with the actual sketches themselves so I just adjusted them to fit https://t.co/2rq4QNpuS2 pic.twitter.com/l0l1qDwyKM

— Daniel Golson (@dsgolson) March 1, 2022

Updated March 1st 3:47PM ET: Updated to include tweet by Daniel Golson.

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