FOLLOWING leaked photographs of a Dodge Charger EV on Meta a couple of months again, and within the footsteps of the wickedly fast V8 powered Challenger SRT Demon, comes the worldwide launch this week of what Dodge describes as “the world’s first and solely electrical muscle automobile… the all-new two- and four-door Dodge Charger multi-energy line up”.
Dodge says the brand new Charger is igniting a brand new period of high-performance electron powered automobiles which ship on the muscle automobile promise kicked off within the mid Nineteen Sixties and early Nineteen Seventies by the likes of the Pontiac Firebird, Mercury Cougar, Dodge Challenger and even some variations of the Ford Mustang.
However the Mopar firm is having a couple of bets every method providing extra typical twin turbocharged straight six-cylinder petrol engine variations of Charger alongside the electrical fashions.
The all-electric 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona (with Scat Pack) cranks out as much as 670 horsepower (500kW), a great distance in need of the V8-powered Demon that was rated at over 1000 horsepower (745kW) however is enough to permit the all-electric mannequin to clock a 0-100kmh dash in round 3.4 seconds says Dodge.
The identical automobile will cowl a quarter-mile in 11.5 seconds (estimated) and continues to be unsurpassed in quarter-mile elapsed time (ET) of any muscle automobile.
If ratified, it could permit Mopar to carry onto the title of getting “the world’s quickest and strongest muscle automobile”.
Charger Daytona R/T EV fashions make do with “solely” 375kW or 500 horsepower within the outdated measure however are stated to be brutally fast in acceleration.
Serving to Charger Daytona fashions boot up off the road is a typical characteristic known as a Direct Connection Stage package and all-wheel drive throughout all fashions for max automobile efficiency at launch.
A PowerShot characteristic commonplace on Daytona fashions, delivers an incremental 40 horsepower (30kW) for 15 seconds when activated.
These next-generation Dodge Charger fashions mark the debut of Dodge’s new STLA Giant platform that may be configured for high-performance and multi-energy capabilities – electrical or petrol and presumably another gasoline that may come to gentle.
Aside from a powertrain transition within the BEV, the brand new Dodge Charger presents a distillation of muscle-car design and encompasses a patent-pending entrance R-Wing pass-through on Daytona fashions to boost aerodynamic downforce.
Including a measure of muscle automobile rumble to the usually mute BEV exhaust is what’s known as a Fratzonic (synthetic) Chambered Exhaust that Dodge says will ship Hellcat ranges of sound depth which will set the Charger other than extraordinary BEVs.
Inside is a “driver-focused, immersive inside design that features new 64-color “Angle Adjustment inside lighting that reacts to automobile occasions and choose driver inputs”.
Stopping the weighty electrical beast, anticipated to prime 2000kg in BEV type, are giant format 406mm Brembo vented rotors and purple six-piston entrance/four-piston rear mounted callipers that enhance brake swept space greater than 30 per cent examine with the outgoing SRT automobile.
It rolls on 20-inch wheels and staggered Goodyear Eagle F1 SuperCar3 305 entrance/325 rear tyres.
Dodge will provide the brand new Charger with what are described as Race Choices together with hoon pleasing Donut Mode and Drift Mode with two specialised race prep’ choices activated by a one-button Press Expertise that immediately transforms the automobile’s persona, with cluster and HUD graphics altering for chosen Drive Modes.
Moreover, the muscle automobile boasts a drive expertise recorder with consumer choices for drag race and circuit race recording that gives in-car synchronized logging of audio, video, and automobile information.
Although unlikely to make it Down Beneath, the brand new Charger line up will even provide two internal-combustion engine choices with the 550-horsepower (410kW) Dodge Charger Sixpack HO and 420-horsepower (313kW) Charger Sixpack SO, powered by a 3.0-litre twin turbo I-6 Hurricane engine each presumably equally specified because the BEVs.
Dodge is planning for two-door coupe variations of the all-electric 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack and Dodge Charger Daytona R/T to begin manufacturing in mid-2024 whereas the four-door Daytona Scat Pack and R/T fashions, petrol-powered two-door Dodge Charger Sixpack HO and four-door Dodge Charger Sixpack SO scheduled to begin in Q1 2025.
