2024 Dodge Charger Daytona Debuts With Muscular Electric Powertrain, Fratzonic Exhaust & Cool Donut Mode
2024 Dodge Charger Daytona Summary Points
- Dodge has officially debuted the 2024 Charger Daytona as the brand’s first battery-electric vehicle and the world’s first electric muscle car.
- The Charger Daytona will launch in a two-door coupe body style, but a four-door sedan variant will follow, along with gas-powered models featuring the Stellantis Hurricane twin-turbo inline-six engine.
- The 2024 Dodge Daytona with its EV powertrain will out accelerate a current model Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye with a 6.2 supercharged Hemi. “The next generation of Dodge muscle has arrived,” said Tim Kuniskis, Dodge brand CEO – Stellantis.
2024 Dodge Charger Daytona: What’s New?
The 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona is the production version of the brand’s Charger Daytona SRT Concept that debuted in 2022. The concept was a mostly production-ready version of the brand’s first-ever electric muscle car, and the Charger Daytona didn’t stray too far from the concept’s clean-shaven yet bulbous design.
The front has a Dodge-patented and vintage-inspired R-Wing front bumper design to enhance battery cooling while improving downforce, while the rear features a “Ring of Fire” LED taillight design. The brand’s Fratzog logo returns for the Charger Daytona after appearing on a handful of Dodge production cars between the early ’60s and the mid-70s.
The 2024 Charger Daytona is longer, wider, and marginally taller than the outgoing Charger while having a more extended 121-inch wheelbase. It will come in eight curated paint colors: Destroyer Grey, Peel Out, Diamond Black, Redeye, White Knuckle, Triple Nickel, and Bluedicrous.
STLA Large Platform
The 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona is underpinned by the STLA Large platform, a flexible, battery-electric vehicle platform with the potential to carry extreme power, according to parent company Stellantis.
As further described by Stellantis, the STLA Large platform will support a variety of suspension modules and powertrain cradles, depending on vehicle-specific performance objectives. In the case of the 2024 Charger Daytona, STLA Large will accommodate both electrified and gasoline powertrains.
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