Despite its electric drive, the Dodge Charger Daytona SRT concept car is said to exude V8 nostalgia with a sonorous exhaust system. True to the motto: pointless and fun - with 126 dB. The electric model, which looks like a typical muscle car, is expected to be available in 2024.
While the big US car manufacturers have long since jumped on the electric train, Dodge has so far been strangers to electric cars. But now, with the Charger Daytona SRT Concept, the Stellantis brand is giving a concrete outlook on an electric model that will probably be available from 2024.
Visually, the Stromer looks like a typical muscle car. Instead of a step body, the two-door instead of the four-door of the future charger relies on a hatchback body with small exterior mirrors and door handles that are flush with the sheet metal. LED lights stretch across the entire width at the front and rear. The modern outer skin with a high recognition value should be particularly streamlined. The Charger Concept does not have rear doors.
Dodge does not make any key performance data for the 800 full Banshee all-wheel drive or for battery capacity and range. However, the Stromer should perform better than a Charger Hellcat. In its latest expansion stage, the Charger SRT Hellcat delivers over 800 hp and sprints to 100 km/h in well under four seconds.
Because it is a performance car, the electric charger has even been given an "exhaust" that is supposed to deliver a similarly powerful sound as a Hellcat with V8. The Charger is the first electric car with an exhaust system; it comes from Fratzonic. The system is said to blast out 126 dB against its environment. Thanks to an electromechanical circuit, the so-called eRupt transmission, the drive offers switching points that should throw the shoulders into the seat backs. Pressing the Powershot button on the steering wheel also triggers an acceleration boost.
In the cockpit, the charger has arrived in the display present. There is a large-format digital cockpit behind the steering wheel, and there is also a generously sized touchscreen in the center console. The cockpit largely dispenses with switches and buttons. However, the steering wheel offers larger buttons. A head-up display, a panoramic roof made of dark-tinted glass and a pulsating red ambient light as well as individual seating for both rows of seats round off the equipment.
