Stellantis Delays the Electric Ram 1500 and Ramcharger Again

Neither is coming out this year.

2026 Ram Ramcharger

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Adrian Padeanu

By: Adrian Padeanu

May 15, 2025 at 4:50am ET

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It’s been over two years since Ram revealed the 1500 REV. It was supposed to hit dealerships in the United States by late 2024, but Stellantis pushed back the electric truck’s launch to 2025. The Ramcharger with its range-extending V-6 broke cover about a year and a half ago and was scheduled to go on sale in late 2024. That didn’t happen either, as the launch was postponed to 2025. Now, the two models have been pushed back yet again.

You’ll have to wait until the first quarter of 2026 to get behind the wheel of the Ramcharger. Stellantis says it needs more time to finalize the product by “extending the quality validation period” to iron out kinks. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the 1500 REV now has an on-sale date of summer 2027. When it does eventually arrive, the purely electric truck will be a 2028MY in the United States.

In an email to Crain’s Detroit Business, Stellantis spokeswoman Jodi Tinson explained the latest 1500 REV delay as a response to “slowing consumer demand for half-ton BEV pickups.” The 1500 REV was initially meant to precede the Ramcharger, but the rollout order was reversed last year.

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By the time the electric truck reaches customers, more than four years will have passed since its debut in February 2023. The Ramcharger, which premiered in November 2023, is now expected to launch in Q1 2026, just over two years after its debut, assuming there are no further delays.

Both pickups will be built at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, where Stellantis is investing $235.5 million to prepare the facility for production. This will be the automaker’s first US factory to build a fully electric vehicle. The Dodge Charger Daytona is assembled in Windsor, Ontario; the Jeep Wagoneer S in Toluca, Mexico; and the slow-selling Fiat 500e is imported from Turin, Italy.

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Source: Crain's Detroit Business

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