
Dodge has repeatedly warned it will need to shift away from the V8 in order to comply with looming emissions regulations. Going electric isn’t an excuse to s top making performance cars, however. The firm will reportedly leverage the instant torque of a battery-powered drivetrain to create the quickest car it has ever released.
Part of the giant Stellantis group formed earlier in 2021, Dodge is following the rest of its sister companies towards electrification. Anonymous sources familiar with the carmaker’s product pipeline told The Detroit Bureau
Dodge hasn’t detailed its electrification strategy, so we don’t know if the rumored
Fear not, high-octane fans. Dodge isn’t going all-electric quite yet. It plans to build the Challenger until at least 2023, according to documents published by a Canadian union in 2020, and new variants of the coupe and its Charger
“I think that electrification will certainly be part of the formula that says what is American muscle in the future. What it isn’t going to be is a V8, supercharged, 700-horsepower engine,” Manley said about the next Challenger
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