Here’s Our First Official Look at the Dodge Charger and Challenger Successor

Just a few weeks after the Charger as we know it ended production, Dodge has shared the best look yet at what appears to be a production-spec Charger EV in the style of the Charger Daytona SRT EV concept shown in 2022. The photos, shared directly by Dodge on Friday, show a two-door with a Challenger-like appearance and the brand's new Fratzog logo for performance EVs.

The few photos shared today indicate that the car retains most of the design ideas from the Daytona EV concept. Slightly more rounded lines, a re-designed headlight bar, and side reflectors are a clear indicator that this is a production car design rather than another concept, but Dodge has offered no further details on what that car will be underneath the sharp pony car looks.

Dodge has still not announced what exactly this car is, but the Charger Daytona SRT EV concept's name suggests that the two-door will be called a Charger rather than a Challenger. That may seem confusing after a decade and a half of two-door Challengers and four-door Chargers, but Charger two-doors existed throughout the 1960s and 1970s. If Dodge goes through with that branding change, think of the choice as a uniquely American opposite of Acura's decision to produce only a five-door Integra.

This particular car has a massive, engine-shaped hood bulge, but that same hood design is already present on the Daytona EV concept and does not necessarily suggest the presence of an internal combustion engine. Reports from late last year suggest that the Charger may get a gas-powered engine in the near future, but the Fratzog logo suggests that this particular car is still an EV. Even if new Chargers equipped with Hurricane inline-six engines follow in the near future, power output numbers announced in November 2022 suggest that the fastest variants of the car will be EVs.

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