Christmas has come early for followers of American muscle automobiles with the highly effective 2024Dodge Charger Daytona SRT EV teased for the primary time in a brand new festive advert.
Set to go on sale within the US earlier than the tip of 2024, the brand new Xmas sketch reveals us for thefirst time howe designers will evolve the wild Dodge Charger Daytona SRT idea that wasshown again in 2022.
Cheekily captioned with “preproduction mannequin proven for illustration functions solely.Obtainable late 2024″, the brand new drawings reveal how the all-electric muscle automobile reboot willshare the idea’s unique proportions and silhouette however undertake a pair of conventional roundheadlamps that exchange the idea’s full-width LED mild bar.
The ‘actual’ Charger Daytona EV will even include a pair of correct door mirrors, physicaldoor handles and a extra pronounced impression resistant entrance bumper.
What hasn’t modified is the deeply sculpture bonnet of the idea which been replicated forthe manufacturing automobile, hinting on the epic energy than lives beneath the pores and skin.
When it launches in 2024, the reborn Charger will are available three distinct flavours – a rear-drive model that will get a single motor to provide 300kW, a 500kW dual-motor derivativeand, lastly, a flagship Dodge Charger SRT Banshee that can function three-motors and anincredible 660kW.
Whereas the single- and dual-motor variations will come geared up with a 400-volt electricalarchitecture, the zero-emission Hellcat alternative will bag a much more refined 800-volt electrical structure that can present a few of the quickest charging accessible.
It’s the latter tech, in addition to the triple-motor powertrain, that has been developed byStellantis member Maserati.
Battery-size has but to be disclosed however acceleration might be in one other league in contrast tothe combustion-powered coupe it replaces with Dodge claiming the brand new Charger DaytonaEV might be “sooner than a Hellcat in all key efficiency measures”.
And that’s saying one thing while you bear in mind the 594kW 2021 Dodge Charger SRTHellcat Redeye that was powered by a supercharged 6.4-litre V8 might launch from 0-60mph (0-97km/h) in simply 3.4 seconds and hit the quarter mile (400m) market in 10.6 seconds at 208km/h.
Recent tech that might be launched on the next-gen Charger will embrace ultra-lightweight 18-inch carbon-fibre wheels and a throttle-influenced sound generator able to emitting areplicative engine sound at as much as 126dB.
Regardless of admitting that the quickest, wildest Charger SRTs might be battery-powered, Dodgehasn’t given up on combustion simply but for its well-known muscle automobiles with an all-new 375kW3.0-litre twin-turbo in-line six-cylinder ‘Hurricane’ engine additionally set to be accessible from itsintroduction.
It’s not identified when precisely we’ll see the complete unveiling of the Dodge Charger SRT EV nevertheless it’sbeen tipped that the US model will pull the drapes off probably as quickly as early 2024.