The all-new 2025 Ram 2025 full-size pickup truck is right here (no less than in official images – extra on this in a bit), and it is going to be accessible in a number of variations, together with gasoline- and battery-powered.
We’ll go away the full-on gas-guzzling variants for our colleagues at Motor1.com to cowl. Nonetheless, we’re not too removed from the tailpipe emissions right here at InsideEVs both, as a result of Stellantis – which owns Ram – determined to set itself aside from the remainder of the business and supply an extended-range electrical automobile, or EREV, within the type of the 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger.
A full-electric model dubbed the Ram 1500 REV can be within the works, with a launch date anticipated someday within the fourth quarter of subsequent yr, however we don’t have any particulars but.
So for now, let’s give attention to the pickup which may make or break Stellantis within the electrified period, providing what some may see as the perfect of each worlds, beginning with the driving vary.
The automotive behemoth behind the brand new pickup says the Ramcharger – a nameplate that was glued onto a Dodge SUV till the early Nineties – has a “class-shattering limitless battery electrical vary.” Which is, properly, not true.
With a drivetrain configuration just like that of the discontinued Chevrolet Volt, Ram’s new work truck combines two electrical motors (one on the entrance and one on the rear), a battery pack, and a gas-powered generator.
The entrance electrical drive module (EDM), as Ram calls it, delivers 250 kilowatts (335 horsepower) and the rear one provides an additional 238 kW (319 hp) to the combo for a mixed output of 663 hp and 615 pound-feet of torque, enabling a zero to 60 miles per hour dash in 4.4 seconds.
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The EDMs mix the motor, gearbox, and inverter, and get juice from a floor-mounted 92-kilowatt-hour battery pack that may be recharged in two methods: plugging into an AC or DC energy supply, at as much as 145 kW, or with assist from the three.6-liter V6 engine that acts as a 130 kW on-board generator. The latter is fed gasoline from a tank, which might be why Stellantis claims the Ramcharger has “limitless battery electrical vary,” however all people is aware of that gasoline automobiles run on, properly, gasoline and that you need to refuel sooner or later.
Furthermore, even the automaker says only a few strains beneath the bombastic press launch title that the focused vary is as much as 690 miles, so take that as you could.
It’s price noting that the not-so-zero-emissions engine just isn’t mechanically related to the drivetrain in any means. It solely sends electrical energy to the high-voltage battery by way of the on-board generator and may direct electrons to the EDMs concurrently the principle battery to offer most energy to the wheels.
Automobile-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-home (V2H) bidirectional charging functionality is obtainable as customary, that means one might energy a whole home from the pickup’s battery pack or assist one other EV to get again on the highway if it has a low state of cost (SoC) stage. There’s additionally an onboard energy panel within the mattress that may present as much as 7.2 kW.
Constructed on the brand new STLA Body body-on-frame structure that was designed particularly for full-size EVs, the 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger can tow as much as 14,000 kilos with a category 5 hitch and has a best-in-class most payload capability of two,625 lbs, Stellantis says.
By comparability, the 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV, which is all-electric, can tow as much as 10,000 lbs and haul as much as 1,458 lbs within the mattress, whereas the 200+ kWh battery pack gives a variety of as much as 450 miles. In the meantime, the Ford F-150 Lightning, which can be full-electric, can tow as much as 10,000 lbs and has a most payload capability of two,235 lbs, whereas the 131-kWh extended-range battery gives as much as 320 miles of vary.
There’s an all-new energy tailgate on the again, in addition to a so-called RamBox: a lockable storage within the mattress that’s illuminated, weatherproof, and has a 115-volt outlet inside. There are additionally drain plugs on the underside of the storage bins.
The all-new extended-range 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger comes as customary with a multi-link rear suspension and active-level air suspension all-around that provides 5 settings: entry/exit, aero, regular, off-road 1, and off-road 2.
Inside, the pickup encompasses a mixture of supplies akin to carbon fiber, metallic, and leather-based. The highest-of-the-line Tungsten trim stage, for instance, comes with a suede-wrapped headliner, visors, and A- and B-pillars, in addition to heated, ventilated, and massaging entrance seats with 24-way energy adjustment coated in quilted Natura Plus leather-based.
The Tungsten additionally brings a Klipsch Reference Premiere audio system with 23 audio system, twin wi-fi chargers, and a metallic pedal equipment.
Screenwise, the 2025 Ram 1500 comes with a complete of 4 LCDs within the totally kitted-out variants, together with a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster, a 14.5-inch central touchscreen operating the Uconnect 5 infotainment system, a ten.25-inch passenger display screen, and a digital rearview mirror. Plus, there’s a head-up show for the driving force.
The entrance passenger display screen can solely be considered by the individual sitting subsequent to the driving force and may present issues like navigation information, leisure (by way of an HDMI connection), and the pickup’s exterior cameras.
The brand new American pickup might be unlocked and began with the assistance of a digital key that’s saved on the proprietor’s smartphone. This may be shared with different customers however the proprietor retains full management of what capabilities the opposite drivers can entry. With this being mentioned, a standard key fob remains to be provided as customary, and an NFC-based sensible card is obtainable as a backup, in case the principle smartphone that has full rights to the digital key just isn’t accessible.
Pricing for the 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger hasn’t been introduced but, and Stellantis didn’t present a concrete date when it is going to be accessible on the market. As an alternative, the official launch mentions that the gasoline-powered variations will attain dealerships within the first quarter of 2024, the all-electric Ram 1500 REV will come within the fourth quarter of subsequent yr, and the Ramcharger EREV will observe.