The electric muscle car story has never been a clean one. When Dodge first brought the Charger Daytona EV to market, it arrived with genuinely impressive performance numbers and a price tag that made buyers hesitate. Now the 2027 Dodge Charger EV is here, and it’s doing something its predecessors couldn’t: plugging straight into Tesla’s Supercharger network without an adapter. The catch is you’re going to pay a lot more for that privilege, and Dodge hasn’t changed much else to justify it.
Orders are now open, with new models scheduled to reach dealerships in Q3 2026. The big headline is the native North American Charging System (NACS) port, but the price increase is the story that has the EV community buzzing the loudest.
What’s New on the 2027 Dodge Charger EV
A Native NACS Port, Finally
For the first time, the Dodge Charger EV comes with a factory-installed NACS port, making it Stellantis’ first electric vehicle to adopt Tesla’s connector natively. That unlocks direct access to more than 29,000 Tesla Supercharger locations across the US, with no adapter required for DC fast charging. Dodge is also bundling a J1772-to-NACS AC adapter in the box for Level 2 charging at non-Tesla stations.
I’ve been following the NACS transition across the auto industry for a while now, and honestly, this was a long time coming. Every major automaker from Ford to Hyundai made the switch well before Dodge did, and the old CCS port on earlier Charger Daytona models was one of the most cited frustrations among owners trying to plan road trips. The charging infrastructure gap was real, and it mattered more than Dodge probably wanted to admit publicly.
The drive mode lineup stays comprehensive: Sport, Track, Drag, Custom, Auto/Eco, Wet/Snow, and Valet all return as standard. Race options, including Drift/Donut mode, Launch Control, and PowerShot, which adds an extra 40 horsepower for 10 seconds on demand, are all still included. The Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust, the world’s first of its kind and Dodge’s distinctive attempt to give an EV a muscle car voice, is also back unchanged.
Optional extras for 2027 include a Carbon and Suede Package, a Blacktop Package, a panoramic glass roof, an 18-speaker Alpine Pro audio system, and new color choices in Demonic Red and Petrol Blue. None of it transforms the car in any meaningful way. The real story for 2027 is the port, and it’s a legitimate improvement.
The Price That Has Everyone Talking
Here’s where the story gets uncomfortable. The 2027 Dodge Charger EV Scat Pack starts at $72,495 for the two-door coupe, with the four-door sedan costing just $500 more at $72,995. The Plus package pushes the price to $77,490, with the same $500 premium for the four-door version. Depending on the trim, the 2027 two-door model offers up to 267 miles of range.
Compare that to the 2026 Charger Daytona Scat Pack, which started somewhere between $59,995 and $62,685 depending on the variant, and you’re looking at a price increase of roughly $9,810 to $12,500. For a car with no mechanical changes. To make room for 2027 inventory, Dodge is now offering up to $12,750 off 2026 models or 0% APR financing for 72 months on outgoing stock, which tells its own story about how the market has responded to the electric Charger so far.
After looking into this more closely, I can tell you the pricing situation is stranger than it first appears. CarBuzz pointed out that the Charger Daytona’s price has bounced around more dramatically than almost any other EV in recent memory. The most convincing explanation has nothing to do with the cost of adding an NACS port. Now that Dodge has launched the gas-powered Charger Sixpack models starting at $49,995, the EV Scat Pack is being quietly repositioned as a flagship, essentially what the Hellcat was in the old Charger lineup. Flagship positioning means flagship pricing, even if the hardware hasn’t changed.
What most articles missed is a smaller but telling detail: the four-door model used to cost $2,000 more than the coupe. For 2027, that gap has shrunk to just $500. If you’re going to spend north of $72,000 on an electric Charger, the sedan is now a significantly better value per dollar, and that shift barely got any coverage.
Same Performance, Higher Expectations
The 2027 Dodge Charger EV doesn’t bring any power upgrades. It’s the same dual-motor all-wheel-drive setup producing 630 horsepower standard, with 670 horsepower available through PowerShot during short bursts. Zero to 60 happens in 3.3 seconds, and the quarter-mile comes in around 11.5 seconds. Those are still remarkable numbers for a production muscle car, and the EV version genuinely outpaces the gas-powered Sixpack Scat Pack in a straight line.
What hasn’t changed, though, is the sales reality. Dodge moved just 7,421 electric Charger Daytonas in all of 2025. The outgoing gas Challenger, a car that stopped production in late 2023, still sold over 27,000 two-door units in its final calendar year alone. When I started digging into those numbers, I honestly didn’t expect the gap to be that wide. But there it is, and a five-figure price hike is a strange response to those kinds of sales figures.
A Careful Waiting Game
This is one of those situations where the real strategy isn’t being said out loud. Sources suggest that if the 2027 model doesn’t meaningfully improve on last year’s sales performance, Dodge could quietly scale back EV Charger development and lean harder into the gas-powered Sixpack lineup.
Industry insiders hint that Stellantis is watching 2027 order numbers closely before committing to further electric investment on the STLA Large platform. Many believe the NACS upgrade is the missing piece that earlier buyers were waiting for and that the next 12 months will finally answer whether there’s a real market for an electric muscle car priced above $72,000.
Is the 2027 Dodge Charger EV the Right Move
The honest answer depends heavily on what you want from the car. As a performance machine, the Charger EV Scat Pack is legitimately impressive, and adding NACS access to over 29,000 Supercharger locations makes the ownership experience meaningfully better than any CCS-equipped predecessor. Charging convenience on long trips is a real, practical concern for EV buyers, and Dodge has now addressed it in a meaningful way.
But the $72,495 starting price for a car with unchanged specs, in a segment where the 2026 model struggled to clear 8,000 annual units, is a tough ask. The Dodge Charger EV has always been a car searching for its audience. The 2027 update finally fixes the charging infrastructure piece that earlier models were missing. Whether adding a port and raising the price is the combination that changes the story is a question only the market can answer.
