The 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona just isn’t like different electrical autos. The three- and five-door hatchback hurtles the efficiency model into its electrical future by embracing all of the muscle automotive machismo of its previous. As for vary and effectivity—the everyday satisfaction factors of an EV launch— Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis was characteristically blunt: “I don’t care.”
“It’s not designed to get you 500 miles of vary,” Kuniskis crowed to a media gathering final week earlier than the worldwide debut on Tuesday. “That is designed to be the last word efficiency automotive till we come out with the Banshee, in fact.”
The Daytona Banshee will arrive final, late in 2025. The Charger Daytona BEVs go on sale this summer season, and will likely be adopted by the five-door variants early in 2025. At across the identical time, Dodge will rock you with a Hurricane twin-turbo 3.0-liter inline-6 tuned to as much as 550 hp in Charger Sixpack fashions. The brand new Charger successfully absorbs the Challenger two-door slot, despite the fact that Kuniskis says there are plans for the Challenger.
“We’re gonna displace superchargers and substitute them with kilowatts and Energy Photographs,” Kuniskis stated concerning the Charger cadence in addition to intimating future product that may embody utility autos. “After we first began engaged on this platform, it was a really dangerous choice. Essentially the most environment friendly EV platform on this planet is a skateboard. We made the choice on the time to do multi-energy to have a number of autos on that very same platform.”
2024 Dodge Charger Daytona
2024 Dodge Charger Daytona vary and efficiency
Regardless of the efficiency posturing, the 2024 Charger Daytona nonetheless has an estimated 317 miles of vary for the entry-level R/T mannequin, whereas the Scat Pack scoots to 260 miles, courtesy of a 100.5-kwh (93.5-kwh usable) nickel-cobalt-aluminum lithium-ion battery pack.
Using the model’s STLA Massive platform, the Daytonas have two drive items with 250-kw everlasting magnet synchronous motors, one for every axle for traditional all-wheel drive. For the preliminary launch yr, each the R/T and Scat Pack will come normal with a Direct Connection improve package from Dodge’s efficiency components arm that gives 15-second boosts of an additional 40 hp, so long as you enable 30 seconds between every enhance. Dodge manufacturers this the Energy Shot, and it’s accessible through a steering wheel button reverse the drive mode button so that you don’t should fiddle with a toggle or touchscreen while you want extra energy. Subsequent yr, the Energy Shot kits will price additional.
The Stage 1 Energy Shot on the R/T results in a complete output of 496 hp and 404 lb-ft of torque. Dodge estimates a 0-60 mph time of 4.7 seconds, a quarter-mile of 13.1 seconds, and a prime pace of 137 mph.
The Stage 2 Energy Shot juices the Scat Pack to 670 hp and 627 lb-ft. It specs out to a 0-60 mph time of three.3 seconds, a quarter-mile of 11.5 seconds, and a prime pace of 134 mph.
2024 Dodge Charger Daytona
Additionally normal for simply the primary yr is the biggest brake package deal ever provided on a Dodge, consisting of 6-piston Brembo entrance and 4-piston rear calipers clamping down on 16.0-inch rotors. One-pedal driving just isn’t a part of the plan, although paddle shifters allow three ranges of regenerative braking.
The entrance drive unit disconnects energy to the wheels and improves vary and effectivity based mostly on drive mode, whereas the rear unit has a mechanical limited-slip differential for higher traction out of corners. Drive modes embody the standard suspects, whereas Scat Packs get Drag, Drift, and Donut modes that minimize or restrict energy to the entrance axle and neuter the traction management system.
A chambered Fratzonic exhaust that makes use of audio system below the physique which are amplified by resonators, much like a muffler resonator, or like a pipe organ. Inside it’s augmented by electronics and altogether makes what Dodge calls “Hellcat ranges of sound.” It may be disabled through a stealth mode. It might even vibrate the automotive like a V-8, or it may be muted in stealth mode.
The Scat Pack Monitor Bundle provides adaptive dampers to the multi-link entrance and rear suspension, and naturally there’s a launch management perform. Unique to the Scat Pack Monitor Bundle are staggered tires on the 20 inch wheels, with Goodyear Eagle F1 Supercar 3 305/35ZR20 up entrance on 11-inch broad wheels and 325s on 11.5-inch broad wheels in again.
The usual R/T wheels are 18 inches, however the EPA vary estimate is predicated on the 20 inchers. Dodge didn’t present a variety estimate for 18-inch wheels.
The vary and efficiency estimates are spectacular contemplating one different spec: each Charger Daytonas weigh a whopping 5,838 kilos.
2024 Dodge Charger Daytona
Charger Daytona attracts the EV muscle automotive
The 2024 Daytona seems practically equivalent to the Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Idea unveiled in August 2022, with a nip and a tuck to appease regulators. At 206.6 inches, it’s half a foot longer than the outgoing Dodge Charger, but it surely’s broad sufficient for Dodge to name it the widest passenger automotive this aspect of a dually heavy responsibility truck.
The important thing attribute function of that idea and one which carries over with aerodynamic goal is the R-Wing entrance blade topping the nostril. Dodge didn’t tout the coefficient of drag, however the best way the nostril dives down displays the just about platypus-like inspiration from the unique 1968 Dodge Daytona Charger, which additionally had a 23-inch-tall wing on the rear. The R-Wing itself is “air impartial,” Dodge exterior designer Scott Krugger advised Inexperienced Automotive Reviews.
“By having [the nose] dive down, it’s 11 aero counts higher [minus 0.011 to the coefficient of drag] than having a texture like a grille or breather that goes into an engine compartment.”
The wing helps give the Charger Daytona the model’s trademark muscular presence. A entrance single gentle bar curls up on the edges to underscore the wing, stretching the fascia horizontally. The instructed line edges across the easy sides right into a physique line that rises gracefully but powerfully into the hatch. The 5.6-inch floor clearance and taller trip top are visually diminished with a black underbody that additionally rises up into the hatch past the rear wheels. Though it’s an inch taller at 59.0 inches than the outgoing Charger, it nonetheless presents as broad and imply, and the sweeping C-pillars on the five-door mannequin embodies these basic muscle automotive cues much more.
2024 Dodge Charger Daytona
Charger Daytona crosses over with a hatch
It’s a lovely automotive, and it seems like no different EV on sale proper now. We weren’t capable of check the inside roominess of the five-door mannequin, however the hatch opens up 133% extra cargo room than within the outgoing Charger, Dodge says. There’s about 23 cubic ft of area, however even with the hidden ground it’s shallow, so if you wish to match the 4 observe tires as Dodge promoted, you’ll should flip down the 60:40-split rear seats that opens it as much as 38.5 cubic ft of area.
That is perhaps the very best use of the rear seats for passengers above 6 ft tall, because the accessible mounted glass roof eats into headroom. But the 37.2 inches of legroom matches most compact crossovers, so 4 individuals might slot in consolation so long as the gangly people go up entrance.
Additionally up entrance is a 1.5-cubic foot frunk to stow the charging wire.
2024 Dodge Charger Daytona
The Dodge Charger Daytona expenses at as much as 183 kw
The 400-volt structure helps a peak DC fast-charge charge of 183 kw, so on an accessible 350-kw DC charger the Daytona’s battery would cost from 20-80% in about 28 minutes. At dwelling on a 240-volt connection, the Daytona’s 11-kw onboard charger fills the battery from 20-80% in 5.5 hours, or from 5-80% in about seven hours. Anticipate 10 hours for a full state of cost. Dodge will adapt the Tesla-derived NACS protocol in 2025.
Normal tools features a 10.3-inch digital instrument cluster (or an accessible 16.0-inch cluster) horizontally aligned with a 12.3-inch touchscreen with wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, in addition to a wi-fi smartphone charger. Normal driver-assist tech consists of automated emergency braking with pedestrian detection, energetic lane management, adaptive cruise management right down to a cease, blind-spot displays, and a driver-attention monitor.
When the 2024 Dodge Charger Daytonas go on sale this summer season, we count on a worth of about $55,000 for the R/T and fewer than $70,000 for the Scat Pack. Inbuilt Windsor, Ontario, Canada, however with Samsung battery packs imported from Korea for the primary yr, the Charger Daytona received’t qualify for the federal EV tax credit score on buy, however it’ll for lease, in keeping with Sam Abuelsamid, principal analyst for Guidehouse. Someday in 2025, the Stellantis-Samsung three way partnership plant in Kokomo, Ind. are deliberate to be producing the packs, and may qualify for the EV credit score at buy.