The Electric Blues: The 2026 Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack Four Door
- Mike Hagerty
- Apr 15
- 3 min read
DODGE: "Hey, gang! How about a new Dodge Charger with 670 horsepower?" AMERICA: "Yeah!"
DODGE: "And it's electric!"
(crickets)
Look, Dodge and America both needed a new Charger. The one that went away in 2023 had been on sale since 2011.
And let's give the stylists some serious praise here. With a clean(ish) sheet of paper for the new one, they managed to convey a lot of the sleek yet menacing beauty of the 1968-70 Dodge Charger. For those of you too young to call that image up in your brain, well, hey...I'm never gonna let an opportunity go by to post the chase scene from BULLITT:
But, as a Dodge rep told a table of us last fall at Western Automotive Journalists' Best of the Bay, Dodge customers are "traditionalists", and even the return of the Fratzog (Dodge's logo from 1962-1976)...
...and the ability to make an electric Charger sound---sorta---like it has a Hemi under the hood...
...were a combination of "not enough" and "too much" for the intended Charger customer base.
Full disclosure: I'm not that guy. I like Chargers, but I also wouldn't mind one that moved silently, didn't run on dead dinosaurs and emitted not a single particle of tailpipe pollution.
In principle.
For me, the Charger Daytona was fun. Sorta. It's fast (0-60 in 3.3 seconds, according to Dodge), but like the '68, it's better in a straight line (or, probably, doing smoky donuts) than it is in attempting any serious feats of handling.
The way you make an EV the size of a 2026 Dodge Charger, with that kind of performance and even the meh range of 223 miles is to load up on battery---in this case a 100.5 kWh battery pack. And that makes the Charger Daytona heavy---the Scat Pack Plus Four-Door I drove has a curb weight of 5,828 pounds---meaning with a single 172-pound adult on board, the job is to move three tons.
With fewer sold than expected, Dodge begun cranking up production of gasoline-powered Chargers---550 horsepower twin-turbo six-cylinders called the Charger SIXPACK (all caps theirs):
There will be Dodge "traditionalists" who won't like that the engine has six cylinders instead of eight. But the SIXPACK, coming in more than 1,000 pounds lighter than the Daytona, is likely to be one fearsome beast, and more nimble as well.
Meantime, for the electric side, Dodge has axed the entry-level Charger Daytona R/T, leaving only the Charger Daytona Scat Pack in the lineup. The expansion for 2026 comes in the number of doors available. You can now get two or four. The hatchback results in 22.7 cubic feet of cargo space with the rear seats up and 37.9 cubic feet with them folded. Put people in those back sets and they'll be comfy, with 37.2 inches of legroom.
The base price of the 2026 Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack Four-Door is $61,995---$63,990 including destination. That money buys a healthy batch of standard equipment (see the window sticker at the end of this review).
Our tester's extra-cost options consisted of the Track Package (high-back bucket seat in leatherette and suede, heated and ventilated up front and heated in the back, four-way power lumbar-adjustable front seats, Brembo ultra-high-performance brakes with red calipers, a Widebody competition suspension with adaptive damping, 20-inch satin carbon-aluminum wheels, a Drive eXperience recorder and memory for the radio and the driver's seat). That's $4,995. Beyond that's it's $695 each for the Bludicrous paint job and for the staggered 305/35ZR20 and 325/35ZR20 three-season tires.
That puts the bottom line on the window sticker at $70,375.
I've been a believer in EVs for quite a while now. But if we're no longer trying to meet a deadline to move from internal combustion engines to a zero-emission future (and it's increasingly apparent that we are not), then the fact is there are better ways for a car like the Charger to go fast. I'm looking forward to driving the Charger SIXPACK.
2026 Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack Four Door at a glance:
Price: $61,995 base/$63,990 as tested
Electric motors: 2 (front and rear)
Horsepower: 670
Torque: 627 lb-ft
Transmission: Rear offset one-speed
Curb Weight: 5,828 lbs.
0-60 Acceleration (manufacturer data): 3.3 seconds
EPA Fuel Economy Estimate: 72 MPGe
Battery capacity: 100 kWh
EPA Range Estimate: 223 miles
Charging time (20-80%) 24 minutes (350kw DC fast)/41 minutes (175kw DC fast)/5.4 hours (level 2)
