On the Chicago Auto Present, Ram has launched a primary have a look at the manufacturing model of its upcoming absolutely electrical pickup truck, to be known as Ram 1500 REV. 

The very restricted preview, for now, comes within the type of two photographs that present badges and front-end styling. Extra particulars are set to return on Tremendous Bowl Sunday, Feb. 12, Ram stated. 

In teaser photographs, the manufacturing Ram 1500 REV seems to have the identical front-end look, with distinctive lighting that flows in twin paths to the aspect from the grille, because the Ram 1500 Revolution BEV Idea proven at CES final month. The entrance finish seems to be equally curvaceous, within the identify of aerodynamics, with a hood bulge that extends some design continuity to inside combustion variations that may stay out there.

Ram 1500 REV electrical truck – teaser picture of manufacturing mannequin

Ram beforehand confirmed {that a} range-extended Ram electrical truck will promote alongside the absolutely electrical truck and up to date gasoline variations of the Ram. Specs and additional data about this range-extended model are but to return, however executives have instructed that it is perhaps the important thing to this upcoming mannequin’s claimed “class-leading real-world vary.” 

Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares underscored final month to Inexperienced Automobile Stories that it is going to be a range-extended EV and never a plug-in hybrid—a time period implying that even this model can have a big battery pack and all-electric vary properly past the 20 to 40 miles of many present PHEVs.

This variation of the manufacturing Ram Revolution will enable a late-mover benefit and can hit a candy spot that doesn’t but exist within the electrical pickup market. And it might enable Ram a bonus with laws that will require some harder choices for GM and Ford, as these automakers might want to juggle manufacturing between non-plug-in inside combustion variations and absolutely electrical fashions. 

For the range-extended model, REV might need been the apparent badging. Ram hasn’t but clarified what the ‘R’ in REV stands for, if it is anything than Ram or vary. Count on that and much more on Tremendous Bowl Sunday.