Stellantis’ new RAM pickup is an EV — with a gas-powered generator in case the battery runs out

CNBC ^ | NOV 7 202312:01 AM EST | Michael Wayland

[Red Badger]

Bye-Bye HEMI,

Bye-Bye DIESEL.........................

[logi_cal869]

Thank regulator nazis and xiden for this insanity.

[bert]

Mutton eater

[Vaduz]

With a gas-powered generator in case the battery runs out.

So much for EV engineering

[Red Badger]

I sense a new “Back to the Future” movie coming............

[ProtectOurFreedom]

In a word, it’s a HYBRID.

[dynachrome]

“did not announce pricing of the Ramcharger,”

86 payments of $1500? WAG

[Red Badger]

It’s a locomotive.....................

[Gay State Conservative]

My mid-sized diesel sedan can get close to 50mpg on the Interstate. Just a week or two ago it got 46mpg on a 400 mile round trip between Boston and Bergen County,NJ. And that's despite a horrendous 2 hour long tie up on I-84 on the way home.

I'll drive diesels as long as I can find one worth owning. Future generations can become accustomed to electric scooters and pogo sticks.

[Red Badger]

It may become a beautiful lawn ornament if the Environazis succeed in getting diesel and gasoline banned from the marketplace................

[Gay State Conservative]

No it's not. A “hybrid” has a gasoline (or diesel) engine capable of propelling the car for hundreds of miles. The battery is just to give it a boost or to allow the car to do a three mile round trip to the supermarket.

[ansel12]

How much does the truck weigh when full of gasoline and how long before the gasoline goes old if one is only needing the electric portion of power?

[Gay State Conservative]

That may well happen...eventually. But it’s unlikely to happen in *my* lifetime.

[Tell It Right]

Sounds like the design of a diesel locomotive but with a gasoline fueled generator instead of a diesel one.

If you ignore the "zero emissions" crap and look at practical applications, I can see some use cases for a truck like this. It also seems simpler than a normal hybrid (maybe I'm wrong, but to me it seems to add to potential mechanical problems to have both an electric motor and a gas engine with a transmission). This is an all electric motor but with two power sources: battery and gas generator.

But why the generator has to be a 6-cyl gas engine I don't know. Do you really need all of that to run about a 40kW generator? (my math on depending on the gas generator when the battery is empty to run it 80mph) I was under the impression that the standby diesel 40kW generators were 4-cyl. And you don't need that much if you start the gas generator long before the battery is dead. Maybe I'm overlooking something.

[mewzilla]

Thank the people who installed them.

[Paladin2]

Maybe MickeyD’s will be frying up bug burgers and we can burn the waste vegetable oil.

[xkaydet65]

Isn’t this how the USN’s subs were powered before nukes? Even on the surface the diesel was linked to the battery and not to the prop assembly. It did double duty. Both powering and recharging the battery.

[rlmorel]

WTF is THAT thing???

[ChildOfThe60s]

You bring up a very good point. When my socialist brother-in-law and his wife had their electric BMW it had something similar. I think it was about a three and a half gallon capacity to charge the battery.

I pointed out to him that the gas that he put in there, which was ethanol contaminated, had a very short lifespan in that tank and that he would be wise to instead fill it with ethanol-free gas, which is easily available where he lives. Being a typical Lefty he ignored me. I was disappointed when he didn’t have problems lol.

Now he and his wife own an electric Volvo and want to thank you for your $7,500 contribution to the purchase.