Sales of Gas-Powered Dodge Charger Soar By More Than 1,300 Percent
Dodge’s muscle-car customers are leaving little doubt where they stand in the EV versus ICE debate.
Stellantis just revealed that sales of the gas-powered Dodge Charger have soared by over 1,000 percent year-over-year. But not all the news regarding the eighth generation of the iconic vehicle is good. That’s because the gas-powered model is now dramatically outselling the battery-powered version 15 to 1, despite all the heavy investment in the world’s first electric muscle car.
The numbers come from Stellantis’s just-released third-quarter sales report, which showed that between July and September the automaker sold 3,446 gas-powered Chargers. The cars, which include the R/T, Scat Pack, and Sixpack models, all come equipped with a 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged Hurricane inline-six. That sales figure represents an increase of 3,208 units over the 238 gas-powered Chargers that were sold during the third quarter of 2025, or an increase of 1,348 percent.
The ICE version of the Dodge Charger is dramatically outselling the EV version
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A huge part of the reason for the huge jump is that the gas-powered versions of the eighth-generation Charger did not go into production until the final quarter of last year, suggesting that the few gas-powered models sold prior to that were from the remaining seventh-generation stock. Still, selling 3,446 gas-powered Chargers last quarter, and 8,029 units for the year through September, shows that there still is a market for ICE version of the brand’s most important nameplates.
Unfortunately, it is increasingly unclear if the same can be said for the EV version of the car, the Daytona. Total Charger sales came out to 3,679 units, which means that just 233 examples of the all-electric Daytona model were sold. During the same quarter last year, Dodge sold 2,776 Daytona examples, meaning that sales have fallen by 92 percent year over year. Through 2026, just 767 units of the EV, which represents an 89 percent year-over-year drop.
This is the first full year in which muscle car buyers have had their pick between the battery- and gas-powered Chargers. So far, it’s clear which version they prefer. But don’t expect Dodge to pull the plug on the Charger Daytona just yet. This year’s poor sales likely won’t come as a huge shock to the automaker, as they come in the wake of the ending of the $7,500 federal EV tax credit. It wouldn’t hurt for the electric muscle car to start gaining ground on its sibling. At some point, Stellantis’s patience will run out.
