Dodge puts a price on its first electric muscle car

Aug 08, 2024 11:00 PM - 4 months ago 94533

Dodge has put a value connected its first all-electric vehicle, nan Charger Daytona, and it won't beryllium inexpensive for nan mean, clean, neighborhood-disturbing machine. The 2024 Daytona two-door models will commencement astatine $59,595 for nan R/T and $73,190 for nan Scat Pack — some excluding a $1,995 destination fee.

Both Daytona models are starting accumulation this summer, and four-door models will beryllium built successful nan first half of 2025. You tin cheque retired nan models heading to dealerships online starting successful nan fall, and they should make it to tons by nan extremity of nan year.

The two-door models are launching first.

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At launch, you’ll get a shape 1 upgrade kit included for nan R/T exemplary that boosts it to 496 horsepower and 404 lb-ft of torque, while nan Scat Pack’s shape 2 kit zaps retired 670 horsepower and 627 lb-ft of torque. Both tally connected a two-motor 400-volt system.

Of course, nan existent characteristic of nan Charger Daytona is the “Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust” that adds noise to make nan EV consciousness and sound for illustration a gas-burning disturbance.

The patent-pending Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust strategy for Charger Daytona models uses 2 passive radiators to a create a unsocial exhaust floor plan pinch Hellcat levels of sound strength that shatters nan preconception of a emblematic quiet BEV and alternatively delivers a sound worthy of nan Brotherhood of Muscle. Sound strength is tied to higher performance, pinch a stealth sound mode besides available. Distinct conveyance sounds assistance successful providing driver feedback, particularly astatine nan way and astatine elevated speeds, and heighten nan immersive in-car feel.

We’ve heard demos of nan simulated rumble complete nan past year, but nan finalized Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust sounds will beryllium revealed astatine a property arena connected Friday up of Dodge’s Roadkill Nights media event.

Mopar fans will admit those vroom noises astir wrong nan higher-performing Daytona Scat Pack exemplary pinch exclusive way features for illustration Donut and Drift modes, positive a capacity heads-up show (HUD). Scat Pack tin present 0-60mph acceleration successful 3.3 seconds — which matches nan latest Ford Mustang Mach-E GT.

Both nan R/T and Scat Pack models won’t beryllium eligible for nan $7,500 taxation inducement done purchasing, but it tin beryllium applied successful a lease.