Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2025

Karma Automotive on Thursday unveiled the Amaris, a plug-in hybrid coupe the company says is due to start production in the fourth quarter of next year, and confirmed that it’s moving closer to a replacement for the Revero sedan. Like the Revero, the Amaris will use a gasoline engine as a generator.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The BMW engine was an obvious choice for us, as BMW is known for producing the best and most fuel efficient gasoline engines in the world. We are very pleased to have signed this agreement with BMW. —Fisker CEO and Executive Design Director, Henrik Fisker.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2010

A123 Systems has entered a battery supply agreement with Fisker Automotive to supply battery systems for the Fisker Karma Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). The Karma—an extended-range electric vehicle—is scheduled to be launched in late 2010. A123’s technology will ensure the Karma delivers. Investment.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Powertrain for the Karma. has received a $30-million purchase order for supplying key components and subsystems related to Quantum’s proprietary Q-Drive powertrain systems for the Fisker Karma production program under the terms of its supply agreement. Fisker Karma utilizes an Ecotec 2.0-liter Source: Fisker Automotive.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 13, 2012

The 2012 Fisker Karma is a bundle of contradictions: a stunningly sexy sport sedan with a green powertrain, a large luxury car with the interior space of a subcompact, and a range-extended electric car that gets worse gas-mileage ratings when running on gasoline than some of its conventional competitors.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2010

The loan will support the Karma, a full-size, four-door sports sedan, and a line of family oriented models being developed under the company’s Project NINA program. Fisker, a startup based in southern California, expects to manufacture the Karma and Project NINA lines at a recently shuttered General Motors factory in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 21, 2011

When the EPA's official MPG figures were released for the 2012 Fisker Karma a few days ago, we can't have been the only ones a little disappointed with the 20 MPG figure on gasoline and 52 MPG equivalent in EV mode.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2012

Like the Karma sedan, the Fisker Atlantic is a plug-in series hybrid vehicle that allows drivers to switch manually or automatically between electric and gasoline driving modes and sustain the charge of its lithium-ion batteries on the move.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2009

Quantum has developed an advanced version of its Q-Drive PHEV system which has been optimized to maximize the performance of the Fisker KARMA, a luxury sports sedan, and the KARMA S “Sunset,” a coupe/convertible. The Quantum Q-Drive includes a gasoline powered engine/generator set which yields high efficiency with very low emissions.

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Electric Cars Report

DECEMBER 20, 2024

With Karma’s EREV technology, drivers have the freedom to choose from either gasoline or electric […] The post 3rd Generation Karma Revero Pricing Revealed appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2009

Fisker Automotive has appointed its first group of 32 US retailers to market and service its luxury plug-in hybrid vehicles, beginning with the $87,900 Karma sedan later this year. Earlier in March, Fisker staged the European debut of the Karma sedan at the Geneva Motor Show. The Karma is an Extended Range Electric Vehicle (EREV).

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Green Car Reports

MAY 7, 2013

Not all plug-in electric cars rely on battery power alone; some also have gasoline engines as backups, for longer range or more power. This year, the list gains three new entries (from BMW, Cadillac, and Mitsubishi) and loses one (the Fisker Karma). Last year, we identified six plug-in hybrid vehicles on sale during 2013.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

In 2008 Quantum introduced a gasoline plug-in-hybrid electric drive—Q-Drive—in the Fisker KARMA 4-door sports sedan. Earlier post.) Fisker Automotive, co-founded in 2007 by Quantum and Henrik Fisker, was recently selected by the US Department of Energy for a low interest loan of $528.7 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Range extenders, small gasoline engines that produce electricity to run electric cars after their battery packs discharge, will likely see huge innovation in the coming years.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 6, 2011

Electric cars like the 2011 Chevrolet Volt and 2011 Fisker Karma get around the problem of range anxiety the old-fashioned way: They use gasoline engines. A series hybrid, like the Volt or Karma, makes.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Today on Green Car Reports: Biodiesel producers try to point out to the EPA that their product isn''t ethanol, Shell predicts when the last gasoline car will be built, and we see who''s still buying Fisker Karma plug-in cars. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Panasonic.'

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 3, 2009

Kimberley told the FT that the Lotus effort will differ from the Telsa and ENVI in that it will utilize a gasoline engine hooked to a generator as a range extender — much like GM’s coming Chevrolet Volt and the Fisker Karma. The Karma is making its production debut at the rapidly-approaching 2009 Detroit auto show.

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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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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

Others include the Fisker Karma, the Aptera 2e, the Coda sedan, Chevy’s Volt and Tesla’s Model S. There are no tailpipe emissions, and the cost of the electricity to charge them is much cheaper than a tank of gasoline. By Dana Hull for the San Jose Mercury News. It’s hard to believe it’s actually happening.&#.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 3, 2012

Fisker is delivering the Karma, but not without glitches and its DOE loan is being questioned. Politicians hoping to exploit the moment spread the notion that American gasoline could flow bountifully, cheaply and forever were the boot heel of big government taken off the neck of poor oil companies. Aptera went under.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Some of the most talked-about electric vehicles are slated to debut later this year and can travel at least 100 miles on a single charge (even if some of them run on an auxiliary gasoline engine when the battery runs low). It is different from a plug-in hybrid, or PHEV, which runs on both battery power and gasoline. Tesla Motors.

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All Cars Electric

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

According to Fisker , the Karma plug-in, scheduled to make its German debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show next week, will be one of the cleanest, most fuel efficient cars in the world.The Karma will emit just 83 g CO2 per km and using the SAE method for calculating efficiency, will use only 3.5 liter of gasoline per 100 km travelled. .

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 6, 2025

What they got wrong was assuming that all of those vehicles would run on battery power alone, with gasoline-electric hybrid technology bound for the technological scrap heap. Those numbers are a disappointment to automakers and regulators, who have looked to PHEVs as a bridge technology between gasoline vehicles and pure EVs.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 31, 2024

Cadillac Opulent Velocity EV Concept The next step for Cadillac’s V-Series of performance gasoline-propelled cars, the Opulent Velocity is a designer’s dream. Karma Kaveya EV Coupe Karma’s future top-of-the-line Kaveya The Kaveya coupe will be the halo EV from Karma. Future Caddy EV? With 1,000 hp and 1,270 lb.-ft.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 31, 2021

liter, supercharged and turbocharged gasoline four-cylinder engine producing 326 horsepower and 384 pound-feet of torque. The Polestar system automatically switches between the electric drive mode, combined electric motor and gasoline engine, and gasoline-only engine power. News: Shanghai Auto Show: Karma.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Company CEO and founder Henrik Fisker has had a hand in designing the BMW Z8, the Aston Martin DB9 and the V8 Vantage, and the Fisker Karma. To no one’s surprise, the Ocean looks great. A key design element is the rear quarter panel and the small Doggie Power Window. Observations: 2023 Fisker Ocean.

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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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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Company says its focusing on gasoline and hydrogen. Showed BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS series PHEV concept in December 08. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

And in the biggest mysterious coverup of all, Frank went radio silent on how necessary the switch to electric cars is to start cutting the deadly CO2 emissions that gasoline powered cars produce with every mile they drive. Maybe Frank is battery biased because of his cell phone or laptop or his digital audio recorder letting him down.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The four-door sedan will deliver 40 miles on a charge; a small gasoline engine will recharge the battery as it approaches depletion, extending its range by as much as 200 miles. What the Volt has that electric cars lack is the ability to extend its range by means of burning gasoline, the most popular fuel among cars in the US.

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