[varikin]

Because many of the people who want challengers and chargers want horsepower.

[tsomctl]

Or, like my wonderful neighbor, want to remove their muffler to show off how awesome they are.

More seriously, a successful electric car needs a chassis that's been engineered to be an electric car. You can convert a normal front engine, rwd chassis, but it's always a compromise.

[RajT88]

You realize that once the obnoxious neighbors of the world all have no choice but to buy electric cars, they'll choose to make noise a different way?

For example: Blaring Whitesnake.

[gambiting]

Surely that goal is far easier to meet with electric cars, not less? As many electric manufacturers have already demonstrated, it's relatively straightforward to fit a 500-1000 breakhorsepower EV motor into pretty much any chassis you want. Just add two if you want to realy go nuts. An EV Challenger that slaps a Hellcat in literally every category other than sound and how fast it drinks fuel should satisfy those needs no?

[whartung]

But as we've seen with Tesla, Rivian and others, electric is no barrier to horsepower. Horsepower is a barrier to range, but that's a different problem.

No, the reason there's no market for an electric Challenger et al is because the electric one doesn't sound right.

Around here, it seems pretty much every other pony car (Challenger, Mustang, Camaro) has reworked the exhaust system to "sound better", so it can be enjoyed by everyone else within a mile as they do their full throttle runs down empty street at night.

It should also be noted that Cadillac has already (year or so ago?) stated they won't be making any more ICE performance cars. All of their future ones will be electric. I doubt this is GM wide, pretty sure the ICE Corvette is filed in GMs "cold, dead hands" drawer.

[jgust]

You can count on a plugin hybrid C8 or C9 Corvette, and eventually a full electric. It's inevitable.

[rasz]

If they did they would get 1000hp plaid. What they really want is smelly loud status symbol.