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Stellantis confirmed this month that the Grand Wagoneer EREV is slipping roughly six months to a November production start, and the Ram 1500 REV is sliding nine months to mid-April 2027. A company spokesperson called both programs “on track as planned,” and taken in isolation, a few months’ slip for a genuinely new powertrain architecture wouldn’t be remarkable. Taken in context, it’s the latest entry in a pattern stretching back three years.
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A Truck That’s Been “Almost Ready” Since 2023
Ram first unveiled this truck as the all-electric 1500 REV at CES 2023, targeting a late-2024 launch. That slipped to early 2025, then Stellantis canceled the battery-electric version entirely in September 2025, citing weak demand for full-size electric trucks, reassigning the REV name to what had been a separate range-extended model called the Ramcharger. That version was targeting a 2026 launch as recently as this summer, with Autoblog still reporting “potential production delays” as an open risk even before this latest slip. It’s now mid-April 2027 — over three years after the nameplate’s original unveiling, and still without confirmed pricing or EPA figures. The Grand Wagoneer EREV, sharing the same 400-volt architecture and Pentastar generator setup, has moved on a similar track.
The Blitz Itself Is Real, Even If The Timeline Isn’t
None of this means Stellantis’s broader FaSTLAne 2030 plan is empty. The company has already locked in real product commitments across its brands — a revived Dakota and Rampage for Ram, three new Chrysler crossovers, a Jeep Cherokee successor built on the new STLA One platform — backed by $70 billion in committed investment. The plan’s credibility was never really about whether Stellantis would announce new vehicles; automakers announce vehicles constantly. It’s about whether the company can actually hit dates on the complex, technically ambitious ones, and the REV trucks are the most complex, most technically ambitious products in the entire portfolio right now.
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Why This Specific Delay Matters More Than Most
Stellantis is betting its EREV architecture — a big battery paired with a gas generator rather than a direct-drive engine — as the answer for large trucks and SUVs where pure batteries struggle with towing and range, a strategy other automakers are reportedly watching closely as they weigh their own range-extended plans. If that bet works, it could apply to a much wider slice of the 60-vehicle pipeline still to come. If a relatively contained two-truck launch keeps slipping years past its original date, it’s a reasonable question whether the more ambitious parts of the plan — a Jeep-Tata global SUV, an all-new Alfa Romeo halo car, Chrysler’s full EV transition — will hit their own dates any more reliably.
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This story was originally published September 13, 2026 at 9:30 AM.