Ram 1500 EV Will Provide a Vary Extender Fuel Engine, CEO Confirms

UPDATE 1/5/23: Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares confirmed the range-extender powertrain choice for the upcoming Ram 1500 EV throughout a roundtable interview at CES 2023. Whereas the Ram Revolution BEV idea is battery-powered EV, there can even be a model of this pickup supplied with a gasoline engine that may recharge the battery.

By the point the Ram 1500 EV hits the market in 2024, it’s going to be a few years late to the all-electric-pickup-truck social gathering that is already getting began. Nevertheless, it may arrive with an out there vary extender, which isn’t presently an choice on rivals such because the F-150 Lightning, the GMC Hummer EV, or the Rivan R1T.

Ram CEO Mike Koval Jr. first talked about that the upcoming Ram 1500 EV might be supplied with a spread extender in an interview with EV Pulse. Powering a generator that may recharge the truck’s battery pack, it’d assist alleviate issues some folks have about driving vary. It is maybe a hedge for consumers of electrical vans who plan on utilizing them to tow, because it considerably impacts effectivity and vary. We have seen the Rivian R1T’s vary shrink to only 110 miles when towing a modest load simply half of the truck’s 11,000-pound most.

After all, a Ram 1500 EV with a spread extender is now not an EV, however a plug-in hybrid. Then once more, Ram hasn’t had a difficulty with calling its V-8 a Hemi regardless of not having hemispherical combustion chambers, so possibly it should nonetheless label its electrified 1500 an EV. Whereas we’ve not heard of another new electrical vans that’ll supply a spread extender, it is unlikely that Ram could be the one firm to have one if it is an efficient answer. In truth, Ford in 2018 filed a patent for a bed-mounted vary extender for what we now know is the F-150 Lightning. Nevertheless, Ford’s patent was for a modular unit versus one which’s built-in just like the one used on BMW’s now-defunct i3 hatch. The i3’s two-cylinder engine was a pure vary extender, used solely to recharge the battery, however there is a host of plug-in hybrids with lesser electrical vary the place the fuel engine additionally offers propulsion, such because the Chevy Volt or any variety of right this moment’s plug-in hybrids. Koval did not say what sort of vary extender could be used or when it may be out there.

The information in regards to the Ram 1500 EV’s vary extender comes after the model lately introduced an initiative to assemble enter from actual folks concerning the event of its electrical vans and business vans through RamRevolution.com and a yearlong collection of occasions known as the Ram Actual Speak Tour.

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This story was initially printed February 10, 2022.