Is there any way to make the AI use the Ram. I've heard that if you select specific teammates and choose the kick option when breaching they will use it but I haven't been able to recreate that yet.

I agree. It's bizarre you can equip them with it, yet there is no official option to use it.

I also want the battering ram to be used by our AI team mates.

I'm pretty sure they did use one on my last round, unless I imagined that?

In the early trailers they had AI using the battering rams