DETROIT — Dodge will not abandon its conventional, gearhead, high-octane Charger and Challenger homeowners with its next-generation muscle automobile.

The automaker on Tuesday revealed the brand new Dodge Charger as an all-electric car in addition to a next-generation gas-powered muscle automobile. It will likely be the primary all-electric automobile from Dodge.

The normal automobile has been in query since late 2022, when Dodge mentioned manufacturing of the longstanding Charger and Challenger can be discontinued on the finish of final yr. At the moment, the corporate mentioned an EV would change them, declining to debate the potential for future gasoline fashions.

Providing EV and gas-powered variations of the car will enable Dodge to be extra versatile relating to manufacturing, as gross sales of all-electric automobiles have been rising extra slowly than anticipated. Extra gas- and electric-powered Chargers, together with a “Banshee” EV, will observe the preliminary automobiles.

Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis referred to as the EV a “recreation changer within the trade.” The brand new gas-powered fashions, in the meantime, will outperform their V-6 engine predecessors, in addition to among the V-8 variants.

“We’re taking the efficiency of the ‘golden age’ that as we speak that you simply choose every little thing by and we’re taking the know-how of the long run to verify [the Dodge brothers’] legacy does not die,” Kuniskis mentioned throughout a media briefing. “The Banshee goes to be our final performer.”

The 2024 Charger EV, often known as the Daytona, is predicted to go on sale this summer season with as much as 670 horsepower, 627 foot-pounds of peak torque and a 0-60 mph time of three.3 seconds.

The 2-door EV variations can be first, adopted by four-door fashions in the course of the first quarter of subsequent yr. The gas-powered Chargers with a brand new inline-six engine are anticipated to go on sale in 2025.

Pricing for the EV and gas-powered fashions can be introduced nearer to their manufacturing, Kuniskis mentioned. Present beginning costs for the Charger and Challenger gasoline fashions vary between roughly $33,000 and $96,000.

Each the EV and gasoline fashions will ultimately are available in two- and four-door variants to exchange the four-door Dodge Charger and two-door Challenger. That change is predicted to scale back elements and prices — following a mandate from Carlos Tavares, CEO of Stellantis, which owns Dodge, to his model executives.

Dodge mentioned all EV and gasoline fashions will share inside and exterior designs, which additionally ought to assist with manufacturing complexity and decrease prices.

When requested whether or not the EV can be worthwhile, Kuniskis reiterated feedback made by Tavares that the corporate will not promote electrified automobiles at a loss in an effort to increase gross sales or meet federal gas financial system requirements.

As many manufacturers in recent times switched to smaller and extra fuel-efficient engines, Dodge rolled out Hellcat fashions and different high-performance automobiles. Such fashions helped generate consideration for the model however did not assist the automaker’s carbon footprint, forcing it to purchase carbon credit from automakers equivalent to Tesla.

Stellantis’ “Dare Ahead 2030” strategic plan consists of shifting towards electrified and extra environment friendly propulsion techniques, chopping its international carbon footprint by 50% by 2030 and main the transportation trade by attaining internet carbon zero by 2038.

Kuniskis mentioned there aren’t any plans for V-8 or plug-in hybrid electrical fashions for the brand new Charger, which can be produced at a Stellantis meeting plant in Windsor, Ontario, in Canada.

The Charger Daytona EV will initially be supplied in “R/T” and “Scat Pack” fashions with 496 horsepower and 670 horsepower, respectively. The ranges on a full cost are anticipated to be 317 miles for the R/T and 260 miles for the Scat Pack, Dodge mentioned.

A characteristic referred to as “PowerShot” can be commonplace on Charger Daytona fashions, delivering an extra 40 horsepower for 15 seconds when activated.

“We’re going to displace superchargers and change them with kilowatts and PowerShots,” Kuniskis mentioned.

The design of the brand new Charger is closely based mostly on an idea automobile Dodge revealed in August 2022. It’s a fashionable, but retro, model of the present Dodge Challenger with a extra aerodynamic design that is nonetheless muscular. Most notably, the entrance finish options a big opening for air to go by means of, which the corporate is asking an “R-Wing.”

Kuniskis mentioned the idea automobile was the “manufacturing automobile hiding in plain sight” in an try and get clients used to the brand new design.

Dodge remains to be engaged on how the EV will sound, Kuniskis mentioned. The aim is to aim to retain the roaring sound and driving traits of Dodge’s present gas-powered Charger and Challenger.

Whereas EVs could be quick, with a “linear acceleration” that produces astonishing 0-60 mph instances, they usually lack the driving dynamics that many efficiency automobile homeowners get pleasure from. It is an issue auto executives have privately been trying to unravel because the trade transitions to EVs.

The gas-powered Charger can be powered by a 3.0-liter twin turbo “Hurricane” inline six-cylinder engine that powers different Stellantis automobiles such because the Jeep Wagoneer and Ram 1500.

The one distinction within the EVs and gasoline automobiles may very well be the usage of a “Fratzog” cut up deltoid emblem for EVs relatively than Dodge’s present twin racing stripes. Kuniskis mentioned the corporate remains to be figuring out whether or not to make use of the Fratzog — a made-up phrase initially utilized by Dodge from 1962 by means of 1976 — for the gasoline fashions.