DETROIT — Dodge on Wednesday unveiled a brand new idea automobile referred to as the Charger Daytona SRT as a preview of its first all-electric muscle automobile, anticipated in 2024.

The 2-door coupe is the primary have a look at what the forthcoming car, which can substitute Dodge’s present gas-powered Challenger and Charger muscle automobiles, is anticipated to seem like. The automobile additionally options a number of new applied sciences meant to make it really feel and drive like a conventional muscle automobile.

“This automobile, we imagine, will redefine American muscle,” Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis, who’s identified for over-the-top automobiles such because the model’s 700-plus horsepower Hellcat fashions, stated throughout a media briefing.

The idea car seems like a futuristic, but retro, model of the present Dodge Challenger with a extra aerodynamic, however muscular, design. Most notably, the entrance finish options a big opening for air to move by, which the corporate is asking a “R-Wing.”

The entrance wing in addition to the car’s “Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust” and “eRupt” multispeed transmission – names becoming for “Again to the Future” films – are patent pending, in accordance with the corporate.

The multispeed transmission and exhaust are particularly distinctive, since electrical automobiles drive in just one “gear” and are comparatively silent other than required security noises.

Automakers routinely use idea automobiles to gauge buyer curiosity or present the long run route of a car or model. The automobiles are usually not meant to be offered to customers.

Nevertheless, Kuniskis says most of the Charger Daytona SRT’s applied sciences and design components are anticipated to make it right into a manufacturing car.

“This isn’t a science undertaking,” he stated. “It seems like a Dodge, appears like a Dodge and drives like a Dodge.”

Kuniskis stated the 2024 manufacturing electrical muscle automobile is anticipated to launch with three totally different efficiency ranges however ultimately develop to 9. The idea automobile options an 800-volt “Banshee” propulsion system.

Dodge declined to launch anticipated efficiency metrics for the idea automobile or the yet-to-be-named manufacturing muscle automobile.

The forthcoming EV in 2024 will substitute Dodge’s gas-powered Charger and Challenger muscle automobiles, which the automaker on Monday stated can be discontinued on the finish of 2023.

The automobile’s patent pending applied sciences are supposed to retain the sound and driving traits of Dodge’s present gas-powered Charger and Challenger for any forthcoming all-electric muscle automobiles, in accordance with Kuniskis.

Whereas EVs will be quick with a “linear acceleration” that produces astonishing 0-60 mph occasions, they usually lack the driving dynamics that many efficiency automobile house owners get pleasure from. It is an issue auto executives have privately been making an attempt to unravel because the business transitions to EVs.

“We stated, ‘OK, if it’ll occur, let’s do it like Dodge,'” Kuniskis stated. “We’re not going to go there and do the identical factor. Dodge goes to get misplaced if we attempt to do the identical factor as all people else.”

The exhaust system on the idea Charger, which Kuniskis stated is as loud as a Hellcat engine, pushes sound by an amplifier and tuning chamber positioned on the rear of the car. He in contrast it to a wind organ with chambers and pipes.

The eRupt expertise, he stated, is a multispeed transmission “with electro-mechanical shifting” that “delivers distinctive shift factors” like at present’s muscle and efficiency automobiles.

The improvements might assist Dodge retain its efficiency traits in addition to its patrons, who’ve purchased tens of millions of Challengers and Chargers through the years, in accordance with Stephanie Brinley, principal analyst at S&P International.

“It’s precisely what you’d count on a Dodge EV two-door to be,” she stated. “It seems the half, it sounds the half and it is fairly thrilling.”

A lot of the idea car was impressed by Stellantis-owned Dodge’s historical past, in accordance with officers. The title itself — Charger Daytona SRT — is made up of nomenclatures Dodge has generally used.

The “R-Wing” was impressed by the “nostril cone” entrance finish of the 1969-1970 Charger Daytona. And whereas at present’s Charger is a four-door car, the unique generations starting within the Sixties had been two-door, just like the idea.

The “Fratzonic” exhaust is a reference to a emblem Dodge used from 1962 by 1976 referred to as the “Fratzog,” — a phrase made up by a designer. It contains a cut up deltoid made from three arrowhead shapes that kind a three-pointed star.

Kuniskis stated among the design components and applied sciences are anticipated to influence the electrical vary of the automobiles, nevertheless it’s not one thing Dodge is essentially anxious about.

“Do not care; it is badass … it is a muscle automobile,” Kuniskis stated.