2024 Dodge Charger: Redefining Muscle With 670-HP Electric Scat Pack, Twin-Turbo I6 Models

The Dodge Charger is a car that got it right for years. That's why Dodge barely tweaked the blueprint after bringing it back in 2006, leaving it on the same old LX-based platform with each refresh and engine update. But now, for 2024, it's fully new in pretty much every way—from the STLA Large platform to its standard twin-turbo inline-six and, yup, the electric Daytona models that produce up to 670 horsepower. Indeed, the Charger is another animal now.

You've surely noticed by now that it looks different. It has two doors, just like the original! And it also comes with four doors, if you'd rather have that. Either way, the design is an angular departure from the outgoing Charger, and you could even call it retro. The back end is especially reminiscent of older Mopars with the straight-across, full-length taillight, and big rear window that lifts up with the hatch. As for the front, it's inspired by throwback muscle cars but it's decisively its own thing; the pass-through R-wing on the nose of the electric Daytona models is especially neat.

There's a lot to cover here as it's the most significant new car reveal in recent memory, so let's get cracking.

Plug It In

Speaking of the battery-powered Charger Daytona, it comes in two flavors: a 496-hp R/T as well as a 670-hp Scat Pack. They sport an identically sized 100.5-kilowatt-hour battery pack and send power to all four wheels via two electric motors. The R/T makes do with 404 pound-feet of torque while the full-on Scat Pack musters up 627 pound-feet. All this means the R/T can hit 60 miles per hour in 4.7 seconds and scurry down a quarter-mile track in 13.1 seconds, while the Scat Pack's stat line is expectedly more impressive with a 3.3-second sprint to 60 mph and an 11.5-second time in the quarter mile. Not bad, folks.

There are other implications of the Charger going electric, of course. The Daytona variants weigh a good deal more than their internal combustion counterparts—about 5,835 pounds without a driver. Put me behind the wheel and it's north of 6,000 pounds. And there's also the range, which the lower-powered R/T actually fares better at—317 miles compared to 260 miles for the juiced-up Scat Pack.

I found this interesting and I think you will too: The Charger Daytona R/T tops out at 137 mph. The Daytona Scat Pack's max speed is lower than that, even at 134 mph. My bet is it's due to the 11:1 gearbox; direct drive, in this case, leads to a lower ceiling.

Hemi? Nah, It's Got a Hurricane

The gas-powered Chargers are different still yet. Gone is the Hemi and in its place is the 3.0-liter Hurricane twin-turbo I6. It also comes in two states of tune—a 420-hp standard output and a 550-hp high output—with power traveling through a ZF eight-speed transmission. These Chargers are all-wheel drive as well, meaning there are no rear-wheel drive models left. They each offer Line Lock, a drive mode created to "remove torque from the front axle and spin the rear tires to clean and warm up the tires before a launch event." Burnouts are still possible, then, but the Charger is AWD the rest of the time.

I can tell you firsthand that the Hurricane is impressive. I've never driven a Charger with that engine—nobody outside Dodge has—but I recently tested a 2025 Ram 1500 with the H.O. I6. It's chock-full of boost making 28 psi in the top trim, making use of forged internals and a 9.5:1 compression ratio. It doesn't sound anything like a Hemi but the performance is far and away better than what the naturally aspirated V8 could ever hope for.