Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Price increases be damned, the 2012 Fisker Karma is finally here, and first examples are about to arrive in customers' driveways. Earlier in the week we posted our video driving impressions of the new four-door extended-range electric car from startup Fisker Automotive. Before you even get into the Fisker Karma.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The EPA has rated the 2012 Fisker Karma luxury extended range electric vehicle as consuming 65 kWh/100 miles (52 MPGequivalent) when running in all-electric mode, having a 32-mile all-electric range, and consuming 5.1 Fisker says that its own analysis suggests that many Karma drivers will actually experience a longer all?electric

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 18, 2019

Karma Automotive doesn't have just one vision for its future. The Southern California automaker unveiled a trio of new vehicles at the Shanghai auto show this week, ranging from a near-production look of the next version of the Karma Revero to a fanciful concept called the SC1. It has three.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 2, 2011

For as long as we can remember, there’s been an ongoing love-to-hate relationship between the BBC's Top Gear show and electric cars. Until yesterday that is, when Top Gear Magazine caught everyone off guard by announcing that its Luxury Car of The Year was none other than the $95,900 Fisker Karma Plug-in Hybrid.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s been a long and winding road for Karma Automotive, which was born of the remains of Fisker more than five years ago and still hasn't managed to make as many cars as the original.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 23, 2012

Make a car desirable enough, and people will buy it whatever is powering the wheels. That's the theory anyway, but in a world of unease over the suitability of electric cars, the Henrik Fisker has taken the more comfortable, usable route to creating an electric car: The range-extended 2012 Fisker Karma.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

MARCH 6, 2009

Maybe you saw the Fisker Karma, a plug-in hybrid luxury sedan, in Detroit this year. Think I like her better than the Tesla Roadster?

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The 2012 Fisker Karma remains a stunning car, regardless of its range-extended electric powertrain. While the struggling-though-not-yet-bankrupt company remains in limbo, with a purchase reported but not yet confirmed, it hasn''t built cars since July 2012.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The original production run of the Fisker Karma luxury sedan was contracted to Valmet Automotive in Finland. But as the Karma Revero, the car will be built at a new facility in California.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Make a car desirable enough, and people will buy it whatever is powering the wheels. That's the theory anyway, but in a world of unease over the suitability of electric cars, the Henrik Fisker has taken the more comfortable, usable route to creating an electric car: The range-extended 2012 Fisker Karma.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 3, 2020

California’s Karma is revealing a more modestly priced plug-in hybrid. And our Best Car To Buy shortlist is at the tech forefront. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Karma has revealed that a more affordable GS-5 plug-in.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 31, 2021

GM’s replacement of Bolt EV batteries could bring older versions of the electric car more range than when new. Karma is chasing the fleet market with plug-in commercial trucks. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Subaru gives us a peek inside the Solterra EV. And could synthetic fuels reverse the end for ICE?

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Karma has another new product plan. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Volvo revealed its first minivan, and it’s a long-range, road-trip-worthy EV. And why is it a problem that EV owners are driving less?

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Karma prices the GS-6 plug-in hybrid. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Karma has put a price tag on its GS-6 plug-in hybrid arriving soon, and. Alpha Motors shows us how retro-cute EVs can be styled for America. Virginia signs on with California standards.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Fisker Automotive will debut the first factory-built Karma plug-in hybrid (PHEV) at the 2010 Paris Motor Show. Fisker Automotive introduced the Karma as a concept in January 2008. The 300 kW (403 hp/408 PS) Karma reaches 100 km/h in 5.9 The 300 kW (403 hp/408 PS) Karma reaches 100 km/h in 5.9

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 24, 2011

When you buy an electric car, you will most likely need a charging station. As buyers start to bring home plug-in cars, they will also expect their dealer to help them acquire and install a 240-Volt charging station (technically known as an EVSE, though few people call them that).

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Karma calls foul on Lordstown. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Nissan appears to be exploring electric-truck possibilities, too. And the Mustang Mach-E electric SUV gets EPA range ratings.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The Tesla Model S is named Best Overall vehicle by Consumer Reports, Wanxiang releases a rough timeline for the restart of Fisker Karma production, and the Honda Insight hybrid comes to the end of the road. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The same day Consumer Reports released its devastating review of the 2012 Fisker Karma, the makers of the range-extended electric luxury sedan put out their own press release. Covering the $106,000 car's fuel economy, it reported on the real-world gas mileage achieved by a group of more than 30 Karma owners.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 15, 2012

Fisker Automotive has had a torrid time in the months following the launch of the 2012 Fisker Karma.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 8, 2012

Yesterday, Fisker Automotive, makers of the super-sexy 2012 Karma plug-in hybrid sports car, announced that it had just signed its 80th independent dealer. But Fisker’s 80th dealer, Fisker of Scottsdale, Arizona, isn’t owned by a local independent dealer chain. It’s owned by Penske Automotive.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2012

The EVer (Electric Vehicle extended range) powertrain of the Fisker Karma. The company, which began deliveries of the Fisker Karma luxury four-door extended range electric sedan in December 2011, also said that it has delivered 1,000 vehicles to customers in the US and Europe. 2012 Fisker Karma. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2009

The Fisker Karma Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) ( earlier post ) will make its public driving debut during the Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races on 15 August, 19 months after being unveiled as a concept car. The Fisker Karma will also be on display at Concorso Italiano on 14 August, alongside the Karma Sunset hardtop convertible concept.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 18, 2011

It's been a long and painful year for Fisker Automotive, with deliveries of its 2012 Karma extended-range electric sport sedan repeatedly delayed from the original target of May.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 5, 2019

The new Karma GT by Pininfarina will show off its much sleeker facelift at Monterey Car Week next weekend in California. The GT by Pininfarina, which made its first appearance at the Shanghai auto show in April, is a two-door coupe version of the Karma Revero sedan. Gone is the Joker grin, as well as the walrus mustache.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 14, 2013

If you've always felt the 20 mpg Fisker Karma is a little bit too green, a new sport sedan based on the Fisker Karma might be just the car you're looking for.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 28, 2023

Lordstown has to face Karma first. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Tesla faces a scandal over range and how it addressed consumer complaints. And Porsche looks beyond 350-kw connectors for at least one future EV.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 16, 2019

Chinese-owned, California-based Karma Automotive made clear several years ago that its aspirations go well beyond merely resurrecting production of the car originally known as the Fisker Karma.

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Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

B–ON, the EV solutions provider and StreetScooter successor, will partner with US-based producer of luxury EVs Karma Automotive to produce B–ON’s fully electric light commercial vehicles (eLCVs) at their facility in California starting this year.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 26, 2014

California looks forward to a world beyond cars while, in the nearer term, analysts predict success for the 2015 Tesla Model X, and owners look forward to spare parts that will help keep their Fisker Karma range-extended electric cars on the road. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The latest ad for the.'

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 26, 2014

Owners of the 2012 Fisker Karma range-extended electric luxury car got some good news last week: The company that now owns the carmaker has promised that supplies of spare parts will soon become available. Fisker stopped producing its striking sedan in July 2012 after it had built roughly 3,000 of the cars.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 22, 2019

Fisker, the luxury plug-in hybrid car company that went bankrupt in 2013, was founded by a car designer. Now that venture, renamed Karma after is primary product, following the company's revival at the hands of Chinese investors, has hired a new design firm.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 10, 2012

It might get pretty lousy gas-mileage, but everyone at GreenCarReports agrees that the 2012 Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid is one extremely sexy car. After all, it was designed by Henrik Fisker, the automotive design genius responsible for legendary cars like the Aston Martin DB9, Aston Martin V8 Vantage.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

BMW will supply Karma Automotive—Fisker reborn—with its latest powertrain components, including high voltage battery charging systems and a wide range of hybrid and EV systems, for application in Karma’s flagship plug-in hybrid, to be re-launched next year. —Karma’s CEO Tom Corcoran. founded in 2007.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 31, 2012

While hurricane Sandy has caused more pressing issues for the East coast and its residents than a few submerged cars, images of sixteen destroyed Fisker Karmas will do nothing to ease nerves at the troubled firm. Worse still, the images on Jalopnik show several of the Karmas to have.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 14, 2012

The owner of a new 2012 Fisker Karma that burned to the ground in Sugar Land, Texas, is trading accusations with Fisker. The fire destroyed two other cars and damaged the garage it was stored in and other parts of the house. The owner reported a smell of burning rubber before he parked the car. This could get ugly.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2021

Prior to joining ElectraMeccanica, Pavlov most recently served as the COO of Karma Automotive. Pavlov brings more than two decades of automotive experience to ElectraMeccanica.

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