Electric muscle: Dodge Charger Daytona SRT EV teased
Christmas has come early for fans of American muscle cars with the powerful 2024
Dodge Charger Daytona SRT EV teased for the first time in a new festive ad.
Set to go on sale in the US before the end of 2024, the new Xmas sketch shows us for the
first time howe designers will evolve the wild Dodge Charger Daytona SRT concept that was
shown back in 2022.
Cheekily captioned with “preproduction model shown for illustration purposes only.
Available late 2024″, the new drawings reveal how the all-electric muscle car reboot will
share the concept’s original proportions and silhouette but adopt a pair of traditional round
headlamps that replace the concept’s full-width LED light bar.
The ‘real’ Charger Daytona EV will also come with a pair of proper door mirrors, physical
door handles and a more pronounced impact resistant front bumper.
What hasn’t changed is the deeply sculpture bonnet of the concept which been replicated for
the production car, hinting at the epic power than lives beneath the skin.
When it launches in 2024, the reborn Charger will come in three distinct flavours – a rear-
drive version that gets a single motor to produce 300kW, a 500kW dual-motor derivative
and, finally, a flagship Dodge Charger SRT Banshee that will feature three-motors and an
incredible 660kW.
While the single- and dual-motor versions will come equipped with a 400-volt electrical
architecture, the zero-emission Hellcat replacement will bag a far more sophisticated 800-
volt electrical architecture that will provide some of the fastest charging available.
It’s the latter tech, as well as the triple-motor powertrain, that has been developed by
Stellantis member Maserati.
Battery-size has yet to be disclosed but acceleration will be in another league compared to
the combustion-powered coupe it replaces with Dodge claiming the new Charger Daytona
EV will be “faster than a Hellcat in all key performance measures”.
And that’s saying something when you remember the 594kW 2021 Dodge Charger SRT
Hellcat Redeye that was powered by a supercharged 6.4-litre V8 could launch from 0-60mph (0-97km/h) in just 3.4 seconds and hit the quarter mile (400m) market in 10.6 seconds at 208km/h.
Fresh tech that will be introduced on the next-gen Charger will include ultra-lightweight 18-
inch carbon-fibre wheels and a throttle-influenced sound generator capable of emitting a
replicative engine sound at up to 126dB.
Despite admitting that the fastest, wildest Charger SRTs will be battery-powered, Dodge
hasn’t given up on combustion just yet for its famous muscle cars with an all-new 375kW
3.0-litre twin-turbo in-line six-cylinder ‘Hurricane’ engine also set to be available from its
introduction.
It’s not known when exactly we’ll see the full unveiling of the Dodge Charger SRT EV but it’s
been tipped that the US brand will pull the drapes off possibly as soon as early 2024.
