The Dodge Charger Daytona Electric has tested by an American media and has undergone an unsensable failure. The electric car from Stellantis would have accelerated a few seconds for a few seconds. Fortunately, the security system has done its job well.
Sports cars are not dead, on the contrary. However, they now become electric, in the vast majority of manufacturers. For example, we think of the Alpine A290, but also of the Porsche Taycan, to name just a few. Because they are actually very numerous on the market.
A disturbing concern
But that’s not all. You can also call the Dodge Charger Daytona Electric. The latter was unveiled in the United States in 2024 and it should arrive in Europe a little later. The latter was designed by the Stellantis group and shows a particularly attractive technical magazine. And for a good reasonHis strength reaches 670 hpwhile 0 to 100 km/h is made in just 3.3 seconds. The maximum speed is limited to 220 km/h.
It is sufficient to say that it is very important to control all this cavalry. However, it seems that this is not always the case. This is what the American site reports EdmundsWho could test the electric supercar. However, journalists had a very unpleasant surprise by driving the car.
Indeed, the latter began to accelerate in itself, For a few seconds. The media indicate that warning reports are shown on the dashboard. Then the vehicle went into the “Low Power” mode.
It is a broken mode that activates when the vehicle undergoes an important malfunction. LogicallyThe car should have delayedNot just stop. However, it is precisely the opposite that happened because the car started to accelerate, as shown in a video published by journalists. We see that nobody has the foot on the accelerated pedal, but that The car is rising at speed. The driver then strongly pushes the brakes to delay the latter. But after a few seconds she starts speeding up as soon as he releases the brake.
And that, always without any intervention of the person behind the wheel. The Tryer then decided to completely eliminate the car motor motor and wait ten minutes before he starts it again. The care is then not reproducedFor the greatest relief of the journalist. The latter indicates that not only regenerative braking work has done, but that the vehicle was not free. He really accelerated, very clear.
Stellantis speaks
The tester explains that he had the vehicle speeded up to see how quickly it could go up. He then has reached 72 km/h Before braking, but there is no doubt that it could have been more. A clearly very disturbing situation, especially on such a powerful vehicle. Imagine that he started accelerating as much as possible, without the driver having no control, or that he just didn’t expect it. This is how the media took the car to a Dodge dealer.
A few days later the site received A reaction from the Stellantis groupsent by post. The company explains that ” In the rare case of a failure of the gearbox, Stellantis has set up a function “Drive-by-Brake” security, so that the driver can control the speed via the brake pedal. In this specific case, the position worked as expected and the driver was able to safely maneuver the vehicle from the road. This function has been working with Stellantis Heat Motor Vehicles for many years and has been Resumption on battery electric vehicles ».
So society does not seem to see the concern and regards this bug as a “functionality” that would have worked well. To tell the truth, this is not the only software problem for the electric car. In February 2025, another driver had brought his finger on the poor quality of the infotainment system. The Stellantis Group is planning to improve things by making a single software for all its brands, but the site promises to be Titanic.
