We figured this day would come and this new report from The Detroit News has confirmed it. The next generation Dodge Challenger will receive an electric motor, according to Fiat Chrysler CEO Mike Manley. Also according to Manley, the current generation Challenger's (and Charger) time is limited but refused to offer a precise timeline as to when its hybrid successor will arrive. All he would reveal was that the new Challenger will debut sometime in the next decade.

"The reality is those platforms and that technology we used does need to move on. They can't exist as you get into the middle-2020s," Manley said last week at the Detroit Auto Show. "New technology is going to drive a load of weight out, so we can think of the powertrains in a different way. And we can use electrification to really supplement those vehicles."