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Ram was the last of the big three automakers to show off an electric pickup truck, finally doing so during this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Ram 1500 Revolution concept was boldly styled, with dramatically raked A pillars, that same angle repeated between cab and bed, and wheel arches so swollen you might think they were having an anaphylactic reaction.

Today, Ram showed off the production 1500 REV electric pickup at the New York International Auto Show, and while the styling is a lot more conventional than January’s concept, a look at the specs left me audibly uttering “WTF.”

If you can’t be first, you might as well go farthest

So far, Ford and Rivian have the electric pickup market to themselves. GMC had to stop building the gargantuan Hummer EV for a while, and Tesla’s Cybertruck is still poised to enter production without any sign that has actually happened. Meanwhile Chevrolet’s Silverado EV should be about to start appearing on roads and job sites, as spring 2023 is when deliveries of the work truck version are scheduled to begin.