Dodge CEO states Electric vehicles can maintain the latest 'Golden Age of muscle cars of America'

August 17, 2022: -Dodge has kept American power cars occurring over any brand in the U.S. auto industry in the preserves decade, leading to a cult following that kept retail deals of its car-heavy lineup in the black in the previous year in the coronavirus pandemic.

But vehicles like its infamous Hellcat models with supercharged V-8 engines that crank out over 700 horsepower, double that of most mainstream cars, will finally have to stop due to tightening fuel economy requirements and the increase of electric vehicles.

The problem is that Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis, an icon among gearheads for the Hellcat models, is very well aware of it and surprisingly not afraid of it.

“The days of an iron block supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 are numbered,” he told, which refers to engines such as the Hellcat. “They’re numbered because of all the compliance costs. But the performance that the vehicles generate is not numbered.”

Kuniskis introduced the Dodge Hellcat Challenger in 2014, and believes electrification, whether its combinations with a less powerful engine or all-electric vehicles, will save what he has called the new “Golden Age of muscle cars.” He calls electrification “Performance 2.0” and predicts it will occur once EV technologies drop in price and become more mainstream. 

“The whole world is going to transfer to electrification, right? We know this is coming,” he added.

“The entire world is going get there, and when it does, the price point of that technology will come down, and the crazy people will take the electrification that has become available from a price point and make that performance-based of economy-based.”

Dodge’s present lineup includes a two-door Challenger coupe, a four-door Charger sedan, and Durango SUV. All offer Hellcat variants with over 700 or 800 horsepower and top speeds from 180 mph to over 200 mph.