News Summary

• The all-electric Ram 1500 REV pickup truck is dead.
• Stellantis, the parent company of Ram, said Friday that it will no longer develop a battery-electric full-size pickup.
• It will instead pursue an extended-range truck that gets an estimated 690 miles of range through a novel — but not unheard of — approach of combining a battery with a gas generator.
• The name swap is confusing, it’s because it is.
• But here is what's worth knowing.