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 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 5.9 100 km (100 mpg) and emissions of 83 g/km, according to the company.

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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 Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Of the 11 PHEVs: 10 are extended range electric vehicles—Toyota’s concept Prius PHEV is the only non-series hybrid plug-in. 9 (82%) are production prototypes or concepts; only the Fisker Karma and Karma-S are in production or near production. Of the 42 vehicles, 11 (26%) are plug-in hybrids, the remainder are EVs.

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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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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

With Fisker just starting to deliver its first Karma plug-in hybrid sports sedans--no, still not a single road test by any journalist--attention now turns toward the Frankfurt Motor Show.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

We''ve got a whole host of green-car stories for Friday, including a startling one-off electric pickup truck, news on the latest relaunch plans for the Fisker Karma, and some analysis of green car sales--are they rising or falling? All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 15, 2017

In cars, it's been confined to the BMW i3 REx and the Fisker Karma (now Karma Revero). The series-hybrid powertrain, in which motive power is provided exclusively by one or more electric motors that run on electricity produced by a combustion engine, has been popular in trains and boats for many decades.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 7, 2012

Sitting in hall 1 of the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, was a vehicle so low that--if it wasn't the oddest-looking thing you'd ever seen--you'd have tripped over it. Actually, that's a lie. Every time we passed it, the car had gathered quite a crowd, so you couldn't miss it. It's the work of Finnish company Valmet, better known for its work assembling.

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Baua Electric

JULY 26, 2024

Karma on Monday said it will show up to next month’s 2024 Monterey Car Week with a new concept vehicle whose description suggests it will be an SUV of some sort. The concept is referred to as the GT UV Design Study, though that isn’t its actual name. The debut is scheduled for Aug. The debut is scheduled for Aug.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 20, 2024

Karma on Friday unveiled the Ivara concept at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, one of the premier events of 2024 Monterey Car Week that ran last week in California. Joining it on Karma’s stand were the previously revealed Kaveya sports car and Gyesera sport sedan.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 15, 2019

Karma Automotive promised big things with a new model lineup, including a revamped Revero, a new SUV, and a new electric sports coupe.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Invictus is a limited-edition performance version of the Karma Revero PHEV Only 30 units of the Invictus will be built at a later, unannounced, date Karma hasn’t said how much the Invictus costs Karma Automotive this week unveiled yet another update of the long-lived Revero plug-in hybrid. Karma mentioned a 3.9-second

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 3, 2009

Lotus assembles bodies for the Lotus- Elise based Tesla Roadster , and the Dodge ENVI concept is essentially a Lotus Europa with an all-electric powertrain. The Karma is making its production debut at the rapidly-approaching 2009 Detroit auto show. turbocharged Ecotec four as the Karma’s range-extending engine.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 14, 2014

That company is VL Automotive, co-founded by ex-GM man Bob Lutz and responsible for giving Fisker Karmas an alternative lease of life. While Fisker and its administrators dig through the paperwork and bids relating to its bankruptcy, one company is hard at work turning its products into something else entirely.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Since then, Karma has teased a number of concept and limited-edition vehicles, along with several about-faces in business direction, all while both refining its plug-in series hybrid tech and working toward a mix of PHEVs and fully electric models in the future. Karma has some heavy lifting to get there.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 10, 2020

Karma shows a new van concept. McLaren is optimistic about internal combustion—perhaps without the fossil-fuels part of the equation. The biggest ships—including, perhaps, cruise ships, eventually—could go fuel-cell with a new partnership. And Bentley isn’t making a convincing argument for plug-in hybrids.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2025

Could consolidate 50+ ECUs typical in new EVs to just a few Nets a 3-5% gain in efficiency and range, faster charging Simplifies assembly, cuts weight, extends reach of OTA updates Karma Kaveya EV arriving in 2026 is built on Intel architecture The idea of the software-defined vehicle is, it seems, a billion-dollar buzzword in todays auto industry.

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Green Cars News

JULY 25, 2009

It is one of the most exciting and innovative green car concepts around and now the Fisker Karma Plug-in Hybrid will make its public driving debut. The vehicle will line-up during the Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races on August 15, some 19 months after it was initially unveiled as a concept.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 19, 2009

Those lucky enough to be at the Mazda Raceway last weekend got to witness one of the most hotly anticipated debuts in motoring as the Fisker Karma plug-in extended range electric vehicle made its public driving debut. Tags: Green cars Hybrid cars Latest news Fisker Fisker Karma Fisker Karma debut Mazda Raceway.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 31, 2024

Many of the new cars were making their North American debuts as concepts that will never make it to market in their current form, but some are near production-ready. Acura Performance EV Concept Future Acura EV? Acura revealed the Performance EV Concept. Here are a few, alphabetically, to whet your automotive taste buds!

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Teslarati

AUGUST 23, 2022

Delorean hopes to bring back the old DMC brand with their new Alpha 5 coupe , but this fifth prototype/concept car has not inspired confidence in many observers. Simultaneously, the company has faced new legal challenges as Karma Automotive has sued the brand for alleged intellectual property theft.

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Green Cars News

JULY 11, 2009

How many times have we read about various green car concepts that come to nothing? However, if you were expecting the Fisker Karma to be another example of a green car that got away, then it seems you got one wrong. The 2010 Fisker Karma will offer 400 horsepower of peak power and has a 0-60mph time of less than six seconds.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2009

Bright has built a “mule&# or concept prototype with a working drive train that it demonstrated to select guests and policy makers in December. The Chevy Volt is based around a series hybrid design and so is the Karma coming later this year from Fisker Automotive. Waters wouldn’t provide a lot of details on the vehicle.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 4, 2009

With new green concepts and production vehicles from at least a dozen manufacturers, consumers have a greater selection of low-emission, high-mileage vehicles to choose from than ever before. BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Concept. Fisker Karma. Lexus RX 450h Hybrid Concept. Mitsubishi PX-MiEV Concept. Fisker Karma.

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Cars That Think

MAY 15, 2023

Flowstate, in the word of Intrinsic’s press release, is “an intuitive, web-based developer environment to build robotic applications from concept to deployment.” Everyone has different motivations—could be karma, could be altruism, but sharing the engineering burden is the more rational reason to participate in the open source community.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 17, 2009

Add to Mixx Add to Newsvine Add to Connotea Add to CiteUlike Add to Furl Googlize this Add to Rojo Add to MyWeb Favorite Print E-mail The price of green: The Fisker Karma, on display at the New York Auto Show, is a plug-in hybrid that can run on batteries alone for 50 miles. The Karma can be refueled quickly.) Price: $87,000.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

has fully embraced EVs and, after years of teasing with snazzy concepts, the real hardware is for sale–and is selling well. In its cavalcade of concepts, VW also recently showed an entry-level model that appeared to be an electric reincarnation of the Beetle, but without its iconic shape.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We agree with Toyotas comments, which is why we advocate for mass production of PHEVs: "Were immensely gratified that some enthusiasts, in a tacit endorsement of the hybrid concept, are, on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis, converting Toyota hybrids to plug-in technology. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0"

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.

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CN EV Post

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A friend of our family bought an original Fisker Karma back in 2010. Lucid, like NIO has some Middle East oil money keeping it afloat for the moment - but the wealthy Arabic investors are businessmen, not sympathizers to Western or Chinese retail investors. who will stand behind the warranty you thought you had?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

GM says it is already looking ahead to the next generation of Volt-based vehicles — it unveiled the Cadillac Converj concept in January — and says costs will come down as the technology spreads to more models. It will appear in Europe next year as the Opel Ampera and in Australia as the Holden Volt in 2012.

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