(As of January 22, 2025 • also see upcoming powertrain / rumors)
A slew of new cars, trucks, and crossovers start production soon, with battery-electric, hybrid, and pure-gasoline variants. Here are the details...
First, a calendar-year summary based on this work from Kyle...
2025 Charger: Back in 2021, Stellpower.com wrote that a new Challenger coded LB was set up with a Hurricane engine and a BEV version. This was mocked but here we are with the Challenger taking the Charger name instead. Electrics are already here, with gasoline cars coming. (FCA US has renewed its Cuda trademark for vehicle names again, leading some to suspect a smaller version will be called the Cuda).
The work put into the E85 Hellcat Demon 170 suggests that new technologies are being prepared for the Hurricane twin turbo six; the Demon 170 was a 1,025 horsepower monster. However, many of the people who worked on that have left.
The electric Charger has a “frunk” with equipment lining the sides, hidden behind removeable dividers; there’s not much storage there. Full story here.
The 2025 Durango is unchanged. The 2026 Durango (D6U) was cancelled, but recently restored, but it will not be made at Jefferson North.
A future Charger EV will have a multi-speed transmission; the company also has a “multi-speed transmission emulator” system for single-speed BEV transmissions and range extender technology which will be used on the Wrangler.
The Ram 1500 REV is the possibly-cancelled battery electric (BEV) version of the popular pickup—we have the full story on this 14,000-pound-towing work truck.
Now on the way is a range-extended version, the Ramcharger; and we already have the 2025 Ram 1500 gasoline trucks and a high-performance Ram 1500 concept. The new Ram 1500 keeps the DT body code. The next generation, coded DU, is not due until 2027 at the earliest. The base Hurricane SST (straight six turbo) produces more power and torque than the Hemi V8, with better mileage, and taking regular instead of midgrade. The high output version produces more power and torque than the 6.4 SRT engine which was not available on any Ram pickups. Gas mileage is up to 3 mpg better than the 5.7 Hemi despite some reports which compared with the high output six to the low output Hemi.
Full redesigns of the 2500 and 3500 are still years off (2027-28), but Ram said they will include hydrogen versions (maybe fuel-cell based, but Cummins will have a hydrogen version of its big B engine by then). Expect a 7.2 liter Cummins diesel. 6.4 Hemi is still in production for trucks through the mid-2030s.
There's an open question on ProMaster City (dropped in 2023) and a new platform ProMaster. There may be a hydrogen fuel cell version of the ProMaster eventually. ProMaster BEV is around but only on the most expensive varieties, costing $90,000.
A Mitsubishi L200 (Ram 1200) replacement is being developed for 2027 for Belvidere, Illinois. FCA US trademarked “Dakota” in April 2020. (Speculation: could a lighter, regular-cab Ram 1500 fill the gap for now?) The truck will be gasoline powered, the EV is dead.
Ram Special Service Vehicle is reborn for 2025. Rumors from various places, supported by spy videos and photos, show a Hurricane-powered Ram TRX to replace it.
See our engine rumors page for hydrogen.
The STLA Medium Jeep Compass is due for 2025 using Peugeot 1.6 liter engines made in Dundee, Michigan. Compass itself will be made in Canada, leaving Mexico, which will make the Wagoneer S and presumably the Cherokee.
A new CMP-based vehicle will slot under the Compass and Avenger in Europe and India, around 16 inches shorter in length, with Peugeot gasoline, hybrid, and BEV power, and possibly only having AWD in hybrid and/or BEV form. The Avenger shown below is not sold in the US or Canada, but is on sale in Europe in battery, gasoline, and hybrid forms.
KL Cherokee ended as we predicted, and will be replaced around 2025 by the KM, which uses the Wagoneer S body with a gasoline or hybrid powerplant. The old KL plant in Belvidere will eventually make Ram pickups.
The Jeep Meridian (pictured above) is an upscale, extended-wheelbase version of the Compass for India and other countries—possibly not the US or Canada, though it might be sold there under a different badge (or even as a Jeep if it’s really as tough as Indian reviews suggest).
Despite tough competition, the next generation Wrangler is not expected until 2029 (calendar year 2028).
The Jeep Recon will add to the Wrangler, not replace it. It’s aimed at the Ford Bronco but possibly with less offroad capability. A battery-electric on the STLA Large platform, the Recon has no powertrain hump. The concept is shown below. The Wagoneer S (“real name to be determined”) and Recon have both been confirmed for 2024 production (though obviously the Recon didn’t make the deadline). The Wagoneer S was launched on May 30 but is just now (January 2025) reaching dealers. It has 600 hp and does 0-60 in 3.4 seconds.
Wrangler has a few years left till its planned 2027-2029 redesign, in spite of a great deal of new competition—Bronco, VW’s new Scout brand, and Toyota. The Hurricane might be a 392 replacement and/or Gladiator addition. Bronco and Scout may push Jeep to be more capable off-road—and perhaps to have an independent front suspension on all but one or two trim lines. (Jeep had an optional IFS on the original Wagoneer.) Or not.
Compass is moving to STLA Medium, and will be made in Canada; its Mexican plant went to STLA Large. Wagoneer is to get Ram’s new range-extended battery-electric option - they said in 2025 so figure in 2026.
The long-rumored RA minivan-based crossover was allegedly near readiness when the company decided not to invest that amount of cash in tooling up the plant. In 2022, Christine Feuell said that the first BEV (battery electric) Chrysler is due as a 2025 model, with two more showing up in 2026-27 and an all-BEV line by 2028, when the Pacifica is finally to be replaced after a 2026 refresh. She promised that the 300 will be updated and brought back.
New product is now expected in 2026 and with gasoline engines.
Platforms: STLA Small, Medium, Large, and Frame. Frame is for pickups, Wagoneers, and possibly Durangos. “Georgio” dies by 2027 as Giulia moves to STlA Large. A small number of new Larges is expected in 2025-26. See our platforms page.
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