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Dodge is showing performance enthusiasts future-product hintsin the lead up to the launch of the world’s first electrified muscle car. TheDodge Charger Daytona SRT® Concept will once again use a respected gathering ofautomotive builders and tuners to offer a peek at the future of the Dodge brand.
The November 1-4, 2022, Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, is the world’s largest automotive trade event and will host a 19,500-sq.-ft. Dodge display featuring the Banshee-powered battery-electric muscle car, as well as six “Last Call” 2023 Dodge Charger and Challenger special-edition performance cars and a full roster of new 6- and 8-cylinder Direct Connection crate engines.
“The SEMA Show is one of the great gatherings of the performance culture, and Dodge isn’t going to shy away as we develop the next generation of muscle car – one that just happens to be fully electric,” said Tim Kuniskis, Dodge brand chief executive officer – Stellantis. “Technology moves forward and the customizers and tuners move right along with it. We’re demonstrating how old-school hot-rodding will thrive in an electrified muscle-car future.”
The Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept, originally shown during Dodge Speed Week as part of the lead-up to the world’s largest celebration of automotive culture – Michigan’s Woodward Dream Cruise – will take center stage at the brand’s performance-focused SEMA display.
Highlighting the Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept’s SEMAvisit is the announcement of nine possible powertrain outputs for theall-electric muscle car concept. Three different battery-electric power levelswill be shown at SEMA, as well as two levels of Dodge Direct Connectionperformance upgrades for each power level.
Dodge is illustrating a stair-step approach to its electrified performance, with 400-volt system output levels of 340 kilowatts (456 hp) and 440 kilowatts (590 hp) and an as-yet-unannounced, factory-delivered, power-level 800-volt SRT Banshee powertrain package.
400-volt Output Levels
- 340 kilowatt (kW) – base trim (455 hp)
- eStage 1 – 370 kW (495 hp)
- eStage 2 – 400 kW (535 hp)
- 440 (kW) – base trim (590 hp)
- eStage 1 – 470 kW (630 hp)
- eStage 2 – 500 kW (670 hp)
Direct Connection Stage 1 and Stage 2 performance upgradesuse a “crystal” key that plugs into the dash. Base output and Direct Connectionupgrade levels for the 800-volt Banshee will be announced at a future date.
Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept Stryker Red
The first thing a casual SEMA Show observer will notice is the Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept’s new tri-coat Stryker Red exterior hue.
The new exterior paintcolor was chosen as a way to celebrate the Stage 2 Banshee performance upgrade.In addition, the concept features “Stage 2” fender badging and new 18-inchDirect Connection lightweight carbon-fiber concept wheels with 305mm dragradials.
Using a video display wall, Dodge will also show off avariety of Charger Daytona SRT Concept colors, wheel designs and performanceconfigurations, illustrating the visual and performance customization that willcontinue to be a hallmark of Dodge muscle cars in the years to come.
The power levels are matched to a full slate of nine unique paint colors and nine different wheel combinations, and displayed via videos, illustrating the nine different performance and Direct Connection upgrade levels envisioned for the Dodge concept car.
Fine Tuning the Fratzog
Dodge will also conduct Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept carconsumer clinics at the SEMA Show. On-site teams will engage attendees tosurvey their impressions in regard to the tuning of the patent-pendingFratzonic Chambered Exhaust – the world’s first BEV exhaust system.
Consumer feedback obtained from opinion leaders in the worldof performance cars will aid the Dodge brand in its breakthrough work to createa one-of-a-kind sound signature for its upcoming fully electric Charger musclecar.
Research participants will be given an opportunity toevaluate and rank unique tuning versions of the Charger Daytona SRT Concept’sexhaust note.
The Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept represents a giant stepforward on the performance brand’s road to an electrified future, offering aperception-shattering concept that reimagines what a muscle car can be. TheDodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept offers a glimpse at the brand’s electricfuture through a vehicle that drives like a Dodge, looks like a Dodge andsounds like Dodge.
At its core, the Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept is an authentic Dodge with attitude, and it will redefine American muscle by combining the visual, visceral, and emotional experiences the Brotherhood demands into a pure, radical, high-performance muscle car for the next generation.
