Ford and General Motors have been conservative in their approach to battery-electric pickup trucks, But Ram has decided to go in a completely different direction. Its Ram 1500 Revolution BEV Concept, introduced at CES, takes the pickup truck to a different plane. And this week we have an exclusive interview for the man responsible for the startling concept — Stellantis Chief Design Officer Ralph Gilles.

Host Jack Nerad got the opportunity for a one-on-one interview with Gilles about the truck concept. And the designer revealed the key points in the development of the vehicle and capsulized what it means to the Ram brand as it goes forward into electrification.

In this week’s road test segment, Co-Host Chris Teague describes how the battery-electric Genesis GV60 fared in the frigid Maine winter. The snow piled to the rooftops had the GV60 a bit confused at times, and we’ll tell you why.

Also in the road test segment, Jack Nerad will describe his week behind the wheel  of the hot Hyundai Elantra N. He’ll tell why he thinks it is one of the absolute best performance bargains of 2023.

In the news, one major automaker has had so much difficulty with supply chain issues and inventory shortages that it called a national press conference to explain. We attended that conference, and we’ll tell you what car company it is and what its chief American executive said coming up.

Can you afford to buy a new car right now? A new survey shows that a lot of Americans are concerned about auto affordability these days, and you could be one of them. We’ll give you the details a little later in this segment.

And Maserati has launched the new Maserati Grecale SUV in America and released new details of the three upcoming 2024 Maserati GranTurismo models. We’ll have more on both coming up. Plus, your listener questions are answered, so join us for this week’s episode.