The 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona electrifies a hallowed muscle-car nameplate. And it options an elaborate sound generator to duplicate the exhaust noise of the V-8 that won’t be provided within the new Charger.
Unveiled in March, the Daytona is the all-electric model of the redesigned Charger, which can even be offered with a gasoline twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-6 engine. Electrical fashions function what Dodge calls the Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust—named after Dodge’s Fratzonic brand.
2024 Dodge Charger Daytona
This synthetic exhaust system makes use of transducers underneath the physique to supply sound that’s then amplified by resonators, very similar to those utilized in mufflers to change sound, which is then piped out of the automotive. The system additionally considers velocity and management inputs like steering and pedal stress. This creates an affordable facsimile of a V-8 exhaust observe, as demonstrated in a video just lately launched by Dodge.
The sound within the video is for the Charger Daytona R/T and Charger Daytona Scat Pack fashions that arrive later this 12 months as the primary electrical Charger variants. Dodge could create a distinct soundtrack for an anticipated higher-performance mannequin coming later, rumored to be referred to as the SRT Banshee.
The sound stage can be alterable by drive mode. Sport mode delivers a medium sound output, whereas Drag, Drift, Donut, and Observe make issues louder. A Stealth mode can be accessible for these need to drive in silence with out the synthetic V-8 noises.
Federal guidelines require EVs to emit some type of noise as a warning to pedestrians, and the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA) in 2023 even thought of a petition so as to add these pedestrian-warning sounds to thousands and thousands of older autos. However does that imply EVs ought to sound just like the internal-combustion automobiles they’re meant to interchange?