Stellantis' Ram 1500 Revolution battery-electric conception pickup motortruck is introduced during a keynote code by Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavaras during CES 2023 astatine The Venetian Resort Las Vegas connected January 05, 2023 successful Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Stellantis' Ram marque is canceling plans to make a full-size electrical Ram 1500 pickup truck, citing slowing request for electrical vehicles.
"As request for full-size artillery electrical trucks slows successful North America, Stellantis is reassessing its merchandise strategy and volition discontinue improvement of a full-size BEV pickup," a institution spokesperson said Friday successful a statement, utilizing the manufacture acronym for artillery electrical vehicles.
Stellantis had already delayed plans doubly for the truck, which was primitively expected to spell connected merchantability by the extremity of 2024.
Ram said Friday it would inactive program to motorboat an extended-range electrical truck, which is equipped with an electrical generator and a state engine. That motortruck is expected to travel retired adjacent year.
The institution said it would rename that extended-range motortruck from "Ramcharger" to the "Ram 1500 REV."
The alteration comes arsenic Ram CEO Tim Kuniskis, who unretired from the automaker precocious past year, has launched an assertive turnaround for the embattled brand.
New Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa has been dialing backmost immoderate of erstwhile CEO Carlos Tavares' initiatives and pledged successful precocious July to marque "the pugnacious decisions needed to re-establish profitable maturation and importantly improved results."
The car manufacture wide has been dealing with slower-than-expected adoption of electrical vehicles. The Trump medication has besides been looking to unwind galore of erstwhile President Joe Biden's initiatives to propulsion the car manufacture distant from gas-guzzling interior combustion engines and has canceled taxation credits for buying EVs.
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