Posted on 01/06/2023 7:37:51 AM PST by Red Badger
Ram has entered the auto industry’s battle for electric truck dominance, unveiling its version of the electric pickup truck.
The Ram 1500 Revolution caused a stir of hype as it debuted at CES 2023 Thursday. Auto critics have called it “sleek, futuristic, and unlike trucks today.”
The Ram 1500 Revolution electric battery-powered pickup truck is displayed onstage during the Stellantis keynote at the CES tech show Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Despite being late to the game of developing an electric truck, as Ford, Rivian, and GMC are already on the road with their versions, Ram Revolution Chief Design Officer Ralph Gilles said the extra time has allowed the brand to top the field regarding “all the areas customers care about the most,” including range, towing, payload, and charging.
“It’s the difference between bringing a really good bottle of wine to a party or just crashing it late,” Gilles told the Verge. “We’re looking at outperforming competitors in every aspect.”
People look inside the Ram 1500 Revolution electric battery-powered pickup truck at the CES tech show Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
While the Revolution’s current design is still in the concept stage, it has drawn high praise, even some calling it a model to make “Tesla’s Cybertruck look outdated.”
“It has delivered an eyeful,” Alisa Priddle with Motortrend also noted.
The Revolution’s design currently has cameras in place of side mirrors, doors that swing open in opposite directions, and an interior design that offers third-row jump seats. The electric truck will also reportedly be able to charge at a rate of 350 kilowatts and add 100 miles of range in 10 minutes.
The tail of the Ram 1500 Revolution electric battery-powered pickup truck is shown while on display at the CES tech show Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
"Everything you see from now on will be a direct descendant of this,” Ram CEO Mike Koval Jr. also said.
Ram plans to launch the new Revolution electric pickup truck in 2024.
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Exactly that! Will even be the same color! Stout and simple. Have a 350 small block 400 HP for it with a 700r4 4 speed automatic and found some rare 410 rear gears so I can highway drive!
LOL. That was my first thought
That's entirely correct. When charging an EV with a 350kW charger, there are two things that keep you from having the full 350kW effect during the entire charge.
The first is that all EV's tell the charger to quit charging more than 50kW beyond 80% charge. This is to protect the battery's longevity.
The other is that batteries soak in charge at a less efficient rate as they get more and more charged. So when I start charging my EV at a 350kW charger, if I come in at 20% charged it'll drink in the charge with almost no loss in efficiency. But in the 10 to 15 minutes it takes to get to 80% the efficiency it accepts the charge is a little less, then a little less, etc. So even if the charger is showing a full 330-350kW the entire time, in reality the %increase slows the higher it gets.
That's me as a nerd looking at it. For all practical purposes as an EV owner on a trip you don't care about that as long as you can get charged up to 80% in 10-15 minutes and get a couple of hundred miles out of it (since my wife likes to stop every 200 miles or so to stretch her legs anyway).
When I say that I get 3.0 to 3.1 miles/kWh out of mine, that's charging from home and assuming a 10% loss in efficiency. Part of that is the conversion from AC to DC, part of that is the EV is usually charged 50% to 80% so it accepts a charge at a less efficient manner even if I'm charging at full speed (the efficiency loss you pointed out), and part of that is because I usually have it set to charge at a slow speed at home (a hair over 5kW), which is even less efficient when converting AC to DC. I charge at that slow speed to reduce the odds that our overall load from our house doesn't exceed 18kW (in which case our solar inverters would pull the excess from the grid because their max continuous throughput is 18kW in converting DC power from solar and/or batteries to the house panel). If I charged at full speed like most EV owners, I'd probably get 3.2 to 3.3 miles/kWh.
Excellent!
Electric tricks are likely just garage queens.
Detached-garage queens.
That’s a different question. I see Rivians every now and then.
Prefer Cummins gensets to Generac. Much quieter.
Something a housewife can show off at Starbucks.
Ford is building a GIANT battery plant in Glendale, just west of I-65, a little south of Elizabethtown. If you’re nearby and haven’t seen it, you should take a look if anywhere near the vicinity.
Unless it can haul a full load 300 miles when it’s 10 degrees F outside it is useless as a pick-up truck.
Let me know when they produce an electric pick-up truck that can do that and independent reporters have demonstrated that it can do it in real world conditions.
That’ll probably be about like commercial fusion power, which has been 20 years away for the last 50-60 years.
First one I’ve seen anywhere.
We have Tesla cars all over the place here...........
Perhaps the Koreans as well (Kia/Hyundai/Genesis). They didn’t ante up to the BLM crowd, and aren’t totally abandoning ICE power plants like the Germans seem to be doing.
Likewise on the latter, have for a long time here. N. ATL suburb. My neighbor caddy-corner across the back yard has had one for years.
Agree H is the way to. PLUG power is betting big on it investing in green hydrogen production.
Nope, they all drive diesel trucks. F250/F350, Chevy 2500HD, 3500HD, Ram 2500/3500’s.
No way to get 200 miles on a 15 minute charge. Not with today’s tech and base chargers.
Destin is a wealthy beach haven for Nashville types and old Rockers, so lots of virtue signaling going on............
Ill keep my hemi thanks
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