Stellantis will produce a Ram commercial truck powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, the head of the automaker’s fuel cell program said in a recent interview with the German publication. Welcome Sonntag (through Electricity).
After starting scale production of fuel cell vehicles in Poland later this year, Stellantis plans to start building a fuel cell version of the Ram 5500 in Mexico, Jean-Michel Billig said in the interview. for the North American market. .
2024 Ram 5500 chassis cab
Stellantis begins selling fuel cell midsize commercial vehicles in some markets in late 2022, but only 350 have been sold so far, Billig said. The automaker hopes to increase production to 100,000 vehicles per year by 2030 as it targets 40% of fuel cell commercial vehicle sales, with “The product line is “fully decarbonized in Europe” by the end of the decade, according to the CEO.
The Ram 5500 is the most powerful version of the Ram HD pickup and is typically sold as a frame cab in the US, making it much larger than previous efforts at hydrogen pickups. Take Toyota for example revealed a hydrogen fuel cell pickup truck abroad, but this is just a prototype and production plans have not yet been announced.
2025 Ram 1500 Turbocharger
The Nikola Badger fuel cell pickup truck could eventually be sold by the hydrogen-focused company, although it will reportedly rely heavily on General Motors. Once a leader in fuel cells, GM has retreated from its application in light-duty vehicles and focused instead on pickup trucks. Hyundai and Toyota have followed a similar path, moving from fuel cell passenger cars to larger commercial vehicles.
Meanwhile, Ram is preparing to offer an attractive proposition—a hybrid vehicle with a 92-kwh plug-in battery pack. Called Ramcharger and expected to arrive as a 2025 model, this Ram 1500 variant will go 145 miles on battery electric power alone, then another 545 miles with the V-6 gasoline engine running the engine. generates power and acts as a range extender.
