avoid previewed its electric future with SRT Daytona concept chargerand the brand’s CEO seems to have teased another electric muscle car.
“The new Charger Daytona will redefine American muscle tone and don’t worry, you know us. We haven’t completely lifted the curtain on this car…or maybe these cars haven’t yet,” said Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis at a presentation about the special V8 engine, the car. Challenger Demon 170 spits fire.
Inside Mopar Reports from sources that the next-generation Charger and Challenger models will be unveiled at Woodward Dream Cruise this August. Alternatively, they could be revealed at another Speed Week event organized by the brand.
“While others will bring electric vehicles to market, Dodge will bring a muscle car and use electrification to make it more politically incorrect,” Mr. Kuniskis said of the production process. , but to make it faster and more Dodge-ier”. Charger.
“So efficiency be damned, we’ve always wanted to make ’68 Chargers and here’s our chance.”
It’s not clear if the Charger SRT Daytona will hit a couple of opportunities in the transition to production vehicles.
The upcoming 2011 vintage V6 and V8 powered charger is a four-door sedan, like its 2006 predecessor.
This is a break from tradition for the nameplate, which has always been applied to a coupe even as it transitions from a sports car to a personal luxury coupe to a compact car and from the rear-wheel drive to front-wheel drive.
By contrast, the Challenger has always been a coupe, although a factory convertible was offered in 1970 and 1971.
Talk to Muscle cars and trucks Earlier this year, Mr. Kuniskis said Dodge would aftermarket regulator lock away from its upcoming electric vehicles and instead direct customers to upgrade kits that can be purchased from its dealers.
“We don’t want to lock cars and say you can’t modify them. We just want to lock them down and say modify them through us so we know it was done right,” Mr. Kuniskis said.
Dodge’s CEO said there would be a desire to hack their EV system, but he wanted to “try to close that door before it opens,” that way the company can spend time “making it” making more edits for you instead of, literally, trying to take down hackers.”
You can purchase upgrades or “crystals” for the Dodge EV through the company’s Direct Connect and Power Broker programs.
Mr. Kuniskis sought to reassure potential buyers by saying that “the crystals are attached to the car, to the VIN, to the ECM of that vehicle”, so all subsequent owners will be able to use all purchased upgrades for a particular vehicle.
Dodge has confirm some eStage . “crystals” for the production version of last year’s Charger Daytona SRT EV concept.
Chargers equipped with 400V electrical architecture can be upgraded from 340kW in the base model to 370kW with the eStage 1 “crystal” or 400kW with the eStage 2 “crystal”. Upgraded models can be tuned from standard 440kW to 470kW or 500kW.
The automaker has yet to announce what upgrades will be available for cars equipped with the top 800V system. So far Stellantis has only confirmed that the car will be available in tunes up to 660kW.
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Current Charger and Challenger
Debuting in 2024, the new Dodge muscle car will be one of the first vehicles to use the STLA Grand Architecture, which will eventually underpin vehicles powered by Alfa Romeo, Chrysler and Jeep. Battery offerings are said to range from 101 to 118 kWh, allowing for a maximum operating range of up to 800 km.
Although designed with the needs of an electric powertrain in mind, the STLA Large is a “multi-power platform” that powers the internal combustion engine.
Regardless of speculation One day, inline-six engines will be offered in the Charger, Kuniskis said: “I could put an ICE engine in there. That doesn’t mean we will.”
