Stellantis further delays electric Ram pickup to prioritize plug-in 'EREV' model

DETROIT — Stellantis said Wednesday it volition further hold an all-electric Ram pickup from 2025 until 2026, arsenic the automaker confronts slower-than-expected adoption of EVs and competitors conflict to marque profits connected electrical trucks.

The determination to hold the afloat battery-electric model, which had already been postponed from this year, volition assistance successful prioritizing an electrical range-extended mentation of the motortruck called the Ramcharger that features a state motor combined with EV technologies, the institution said.

"The determination to motorboat Ramcharger archetypal was driven by overwhelming user interest, maintaining a competitory vantage successful the exertion and slowing manufacture request for half-ton BEV pickups," Ram said successful a release.

Ramcharger volition beryllium unfastened for lawsuit orders successful the archetypal fractional of 2025, followed by the Ram 1500 REV motorboat successful 2026, Stellantis said.

The alteration successful priorities is the archetypal large announced displacement since Ram CEO Tim Kuniskis returned earlier this month, pursuing a absorption shakeup that included Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares leaving the company.

Kuniskis had retired from Stellantis successful May earlier coming backmost to the automaker. He said earlier this period to expect changes for the embattled brand, which reported a 24% income diminution done the 3rd 4th of this year.

"I did not get disconnected the seat to not travel present and telephone immoderate audibles, truthful enactment tuned. More coming," helium said during a little media quality a time aft returning to the company.

Kuniskis attributed existent problems with the brand's income to a slower-than-expected rollout of its redesigned Ram 1500 exemplary arsenic good arsenic delays to its upcoming heavy-duty trucks.

"It's getting amended each day, but we got a batch of enactment to do," said Kuniskis, who referred to the Ramcharger pickup arsenic the brand's "Goldilocks truck" — equating to the close premix of power, scope and capabilities.  

The Ramcharger is known arsenic an "extended-range electrical vehicle," oregon EREV. It tin run arsenic a zero-emissions EV until its artillery dies and an electrical onboard generator — powered by a 27-gallon, 3.6-liter V6 motor — kicks connected to powerfulness the vehicle.

Stellantis estimates the scope of the Ramcharger to beryllium up to 690 miles, including up to 145 miles powered by a 92 kilowatt-hour artillery erstwhile afloat charged without the extended-range powerfulness from the state motor and 130 kilowatt electrical generator.