The 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona EV is finally here, following years of info slowly trickling out from Stellantis headquarters. The quintessential American muscle car has gone electric, and now we’ve got the numbers to say just how much speed it gained in the process.
But how do those numbers stack up against competitors from Porsche, Tesla, or even the leftover gas-powered Dodges sitting on your local dealer lot? Well, that’s a great question. I’m glad you asked it. Let’s find out together.
For this new generation, the Charger is available in two- or four-door variants, supplanting the Challenger to become Dodge’s single muscle car offering. For 2024, though, only the electric coupes are actually coming — the sedans and six-cylinders will have to wait until 2025. As such, the information we have is focused on the electric coupes, so that’s where we’ll focus.
First, for a sort of “how it started/how it’s going” comparison, we’ll see how the new Charger R/T and Scat Pack stack up against last year’s Challenger offerings. The new electric motors quote peak numbers for both sustained operation and something called “Power Shot,” likely a Taycan-esque overboost function, so we’ll throw both into the chart.
You might notice that official quarter-mile times are tough to come by for the older cars. Even the 0-to-60 times, while official, are tricky to find through Stellantis’ media site. It seems the company is prouder of the new cars’ performance, since we’re seeing actual hard numbers rather than vague estimates.
Of course, speaking of hard numbers, there’s a big one that we don’t yet have for the new Charger: Price. Will the move to electric power accompany a price bump, or will the Charger remain the people’s muscle car? Without that information, and because there’s no other two-door electric muscle cars out there, it’s hard to judge exactly what the car’s competitors are, but we can take a swath of the electric performance market and see how the new Charger compares.
The Charger’s massive battery is a real standout here, but its range benefits are cut down by just how much weight the coupe carries. Somehow, it’s nearly 1,000 pounds heavier than every competitor — even crossovers weigh substantially less.
Of course, specs on paper are always just that — paper. To see how the Charger really feels from the driver’s seat, we’ll have to take one out for ourselves and really feel that 670-hp overboost function. Purely for analytical and comparative reasons, of course. It’s for science.
