Concept vehicles are vessels for far-fetched and far-out designs, features, and technological advancements—and Ram's 1500 Revolution EV concept is no exception. It's an amalgamation of things dreamed and imagined by Ram's customers, the tangible representation of feedback that needed a flexible, new-age electric truck platform to be realized. Revealed at the 2023 CES, this all-electric light-duty Ram pickup offers a preview of the 2024 production model and some its wildest features—like the full-length pass-through (passhole?) that creates a nose-to-tail cargo tunnel for long and skinny items up to 18 feet long.

Something like this could have significant real-world practicality for truck owners, especially for those who have ever attempted to haul home long poles, PVC pipes, wood planks, metal tubing, or anything of the sort without a proper roof rack or a trailer. Just open the tailgate and shove the spear in until it almost comes out the front—just like you've wanted to do every time (if it weren't for the bed, cab, interior, firewall, and engine getting in the way). Or start from the front and shove it in frunk side first.

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You can probably already imagine the basics, and we were able to poke around it for ourselves only briefly, but here is how it works: Within the 18 uninterrupted feet of length of this cargo tunnel, Ram incorporated two pass-throughs connecting the bed to the interior and the interior to the frunk (front trunk). The first is through the power-operated midgate, which must be folded down entirely (it flops forward, into the cabin) after retracting the rear window. (As an aside, can you imagine voice-commanding this setup? "Alexa: Open Passhole!?") The second door that must be opened is a ski-pass-through-style aperture (like those in sedans and wagons) in the front firewall. This firewall hole is roughly 1 foot by 1 foot, though it's more rectangular than square. The center space of the interior floor—between the left- and right-side seats—serves as a channel that connects the pass-throughs front to rear.

Ram tells us that the 18-foot measurement is from the tip of the frunk, through the cabin and the folded-down midgate, and to the end of the bed with the tailgate up. There are images of the truck (from Ram) showing the tailgate hinged down with a bed extender, which would theoretically lengthen the cargo capacity to more than 18 feet.

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What types of things could be stored in an 18-foot space restricted by a 1-square-foot frunk-side hole? Poles, PVC pipes, planks, and rebar, to start with, and a host of other long and skinny things that the mind probably couldn't imagine until the scenario presented itself (sailboat masts? personal telephone poles?). But you don'thaveto use the entire space for it to be beneficial, as it could be useful for anything longer than just the frunk or the bed, depending on if you want to load from the front or the back, and without needing to stick it through an open window or on the roof.

For truck owners who occasionally haul stuff compatible with this storage system, it's easy to see the advantages: no tie-downs; no meticulous calculations and strategic loading; no risk of impaling fellow drivers who don't see the little red flag attached to your load hanging feet beyond the back of your tailgate; no fear of sideswiping a Benz with a stick of metal; no gentle cornering and easy accelerating; no nervousness over shifting loads; and above all, no anxiety over losing the whole darn load. Those who carry these loads regularly will probably still opt for some sort of construction rack to carry a larger quantity, but as an integrated solution, this is pretty great, even if it smacks of the full-length cargo tunnel in Bollinger's heavier-duty EV trucks.