5 (more) things you should know about the ram 1500 revolution ev

The segment of all-electric pickup trucks is exploding faster than our waistlines after the holidays, with entrants from legacy automakers like GM and Ford jockeying for customers amongst upstarts like Rivian. Slow out of the gate is Ram, the automaker has been teasing its half-ton EV for approximately eight hundred epochs but only showed the real thing (well, a concept, at least) during this week’s CES event in Las Vegas.

Be sure to check out existing coverage of the Ram 1500 Revolution in which our own David Booth ably explained the truck’s electric architecture along with an analysis of its styling and an overview of notable features. However, there are a few items which warrant a couple of extra column-inches, so we’ve plucked a selection of our faves and listed them here.

Grand Saloon Style doors – and that third row of seats

5 (more) things you should know about the ram 1500 revolution ev

Leave it to the Type A marketers at Ram to describe a feature which has been around for over 25 years in a creative yet entirely appropriate manner. Rather than show off a truck with four forward-swinging doors, a feature of crew cab trucks since the Clinton era, Ram decided to flip the script (and the hinges) by installing front and rear doors which both open from the cab’s centre. You’ll recognize these from a generation of extended cab trucks whose portals opened in precisely the same manner.

And they called them Grand Saloon Style doors. It’s a brilliant name which recalls taverns from the old west and images of surly cowpokes barging into the local roadhouse, doors swinging and guns blazing. In the real world, these portals open up a world of accessibility to the cab — a space which, we hasten to add, has a set of jump seats behind the rear bench. This means this all-electric Ram is actually a three-row rig, a trait which is devastatingly popular on the SUV side of the house.

Expanded RamBox

5 (more) things you should know about the ram 1500 revolution ev

Debates rage at The Truck Guy HQ about if Ram customers should opt for the covered and secure storage space of RamBoxes or instead enjoy the extra bed space granted when this feature is not present. The answer inevitably comes down to personal choice. If yer frequently hauling gravel and such in the bed, leave ‘em on the factory floor. For the rest of us, they’re probably a good option — the space they eat up doesn’t affect the truck’s ability to load up a dirt bike or ride on lawnmower, for example.

While little detail was given about the new RamBox, animated footage provided by Ram show the entire box side lifting skyward to reveal an enormous cargo area complete with shelving and partitioned compartments. You can bet there’s a couple of electrical outlets in there as well. Looks good to our jaundiced eyes.

Four-wheel steering

5 (more) things you should know about the ram 1500 revolution ev

Several automakers have been imbuing their machines with rear-wheel steering capabilities of late, with the truck segment being dominated in this area by messaging from GM about their creatively named CrabWalk system. The Ram 1500 Revolution BEV Concept goes a step further than GM’s 10-degree angle with four-wheel steering that can jack up to 15 degrees of articulation on the rear wheels. Ram says it is designed to offer greater maneuverability at low speeds, on tight off-road trails, while also increasing the vehicle’s steering response at high speeds.

Removable infotainment display

5 (more) things you should know about the ram 1500 revolution ev

A common complaint leveled at modern cars is the propensity for designers to simply slap a huge touchscreen on top of the dashboard and call it a day, leaving it there like a tombstone memorial to sensible controls and dials we can actually use. Ram has decided at least one of the displays in their truck should be portable, which is a sensible idea.

An adjustable and removable lower infotainment display can be taken out and deployed as a tablet, passenger display, truck bed workstation, vehicle control, or video game controller. When the 14.2-inch tablet is placed back in its home base, it can pair with the other permanently mounted 14.2-inch screen to create a large viewing area.

Projecting on others

5 (more) things you should know about the ram 1500 revolution ev

Not all features on a concept vehicle make it to production — but we hope this one does. An exterior projector system faces forward out the truck’s windshield, using multiple built-in projectors to provide an efficient method of visual communication by projecting images onto a wall or other flat surface in front of the truck. Ram says it can provide “information to the user,” which we assume to mean charging info and the like. But, these projectors can also double as a mobile movie theatre or perhaps allow work teams to project house plans for closer inspection.

Bonus feature: Shadow Mode

5 (more) things you should know about the ram 1500 revolution ev

And while David’s roundup of the Ram 1500 Revolution capably made mention of Shadow Mode, the concept is far too cool not to warrant a nod in this post as well. In case ya missed it, Shadow Mode allows the truck to automatically follow someone who is walking ahead of the vehicle. This is a voice-activated feature which we can see being useful in situations where the driver needs to move a short distance and doesn’t want to get back in the truck — think about times when picking up gear from a job site or trotting to the other end of a campsite. According to Ram, the truck will follow the driver using its sensors and camera technology to navigate around obstacles. Sign. Me. Up.

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