Green Car Reports

AUGUST 16, 2017

Today, the least efficient plug-in car, why rallycross should go electric, possible CAFE changes, and where electric cars should charge. We drove the Fisker Karma in 2012; now we've driven the 2017 Karma Revero, the reborn version of the sleek, low, inefficient plug-in hybrid luxury sedan. Are gas stations.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Have you ever dreamed about just walking into your local Fisker dealer and ordering a Karma plug-in luxury sport sedan? Very few of us have the funds to afford the $95,900 starting price of a 2012 Fisker Karma, but that doesn't mean we can't imagine doing it.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 6, 2016

The Fisker Karma extended-range electric luxury sedan has been out of production since 2012, but two separate companies are trying to revive it.

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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. To be honest that’s hardly surprising.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Fisker Automotive, maker of the plug-in Karma sports sedan, hasn’t had an easy time of late, thanks to the Karma’s rather low EPA fuel economy rating and slower-than-expected initial production volumes. But that is all behind the firm, company Chairman Ray Lane told Reuters yesterday.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 22, 2012

After a week involving fires, financial woes and recalls, it looks like things may be looking up for Fisker Automotive: its 2012 Karma plug-in hybrid is the second best-selling 4-door luxury car in the Netherlands. As PlugInCars reports, Fisker’s founder Henrik Fisker is ecstatic. “How many U.S.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Now that deliveries of the stylish 2012 Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid have begun, the question most often asked of the automaker is “what comes next?" A shooting brake (or station wagon, for us Americans) dubbed the Fisker Surf was shown at the Frankfurt Auto Show and will be the next Fisker model to hit dealer showrooms.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Henrik Fisker has designed some remarkable cars, among them Aston Martins, the BMW Z8, and of course the striking Fisker Karma range-extended electric luxury sedan. That vehicle, launched in 2012 by his namesake company, saw production of less than 3,000 units before the company collapsed in bankruptcy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

million in private equity funding to develop plug-in hybrid cars. million US Department of Energy conditional loan that will, in part, help speed completion of the Fisker Karma, the company’s first plug-in hybrid. Fisker Automotive last week secured access to an additional $115.3 Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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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. Project Nina is expected to launch in 2012. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

million conditional loan to Fisker Automotive for the development of two lines of plug-in hybrids—the Karma and the new Project Nina vehicle—by 2016. million ATVM loan for engineering integration costs as it works with primarily US suppliers to complete the company’s first vehicle, the Fisker Karma. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Fisker Automotive may still be waiting for final certification from the EPA and other regulatory bodies for its 2012 Karma plug-in hybrid sports sedan, but that's not stopping it from moving forward with its next car line.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2010

million loan with Fisker Automotive for the development and production of two lines of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). 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. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 26, 2011

What holiday gift do you give Fisker Automotive, the company responsible for the world’s first plug-in hybrid sports coupe? A Matchbox 2012 Fisker Karma perhaps?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released One Million Electric Vehicles by 2015 , a short status report on advances in deployment and progress to date in meeting President Obama’s goal of putting one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) on the road by 2015. and model 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015. Fisker Karma EREV.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Fisker Automotive might be suffering a lot of pressure after its luxury plug-in hybrid was rated as having an all-electric range of just 32 miles by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -- but the automaker is now claiming it has independent results to prove the EPA was wrong.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 9, 2012

We happen to have three stories today about concerns with plug-in cars: Consumer Reports' dead Fisker Karma test car, questions on the real-world range of the 2012 Tesla Model S at speed, and the so-far all-but-invisible 2012 Ford Focus Electric. The news cycle can be a funny thing.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Today, if the news cycle cooperates, ABC News will air a segment on its Nightline program that looks at Fisker Automotive--makers of the 2012 Karma plug-in luxury sport sedan--and the low-interest loans it and Tesla Motors have been granted by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 18, 2015

A123 was once enthusiastic about electric cars, supplying batteries for the 2012 Fisker Karma. Manufacturing Batteries plug-in cars A123 Systems Fisker Automotive' Then a recall drove A123 into bankruptcy; soon Fisker Automotive followed it. SEE ALSO: Owners Of ''New Fisker'' Offer Selective Electric-Car History (Mar 2014) Now.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

It’s rare when consumer karma actually works out for any buyer of any product made today, but then again, your friendly neighborhood Greenius is not your usual consumer. Debra and I finally got our first electric car, A 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV, a joint production with Tesla, in January of 2013.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The 2012 Fisker Karma extended range electric car (plug-in hybrid) may have been sold on its sexy good looks, and sporty performance -- but now the luxury sedan has a more practical sibling -- the Fisker Surf. Based on the.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 3, 2012

Sales of plug-in cars are steady, but not overwhelming. Fisker is delivering the Karma, but not without glitches and its DOE loan is being questioned. If we want to see more and more varied plug-in models offered, we’ve got to ensure that demand for plug-ins always exceeds supply. It just might be up to us. Give rides!

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Green Car Reports

JULY 19, 2010

In many ways, the Fisker Karma sets the standard in design for the still-nascent luxury/performance plug-in hybrid market, and it's due to hit dealerships sometime early in 2011. But Fisker's plans don't stop there: it wants to build more accessible plug-in hybrids right here in the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 18, 2015

While all 2012 Fisker Karma extended-range electric luxury sedans were built in Finland, the company always intended to assemble cars in the U.S. Before its collapse and bankruptcy, Fisker had bought a former General Motors plant in Delaware.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Fisker represents the company’s largest current automotive business; last week, A123 revised its 2011 revenue guidance downward based on a reduction in fourth-quarter orders from Fisker Automotive as that company balances inventory levels from all suppliers for the Karma plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. in 2Q11 and -85.5%

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The US Department of Energy has awarded the California based manufacturer a conditional loan of $528.7million for the development of two lines of plug-in hybrids – the Karma and the new Project Nina vehicle. Fisker hopes to make 75,000-100,000 of these plug-in vehicles a year beginning in late 2012.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In December last year, BYD began selling the world’s first mass-produced plug-in hybrid vehicle, the F3DM, which is slated to go on sale in Europe in 2010 with a 62mile all-electric range. However, it’s not just the ‘big boys’ of motoring that are having an impact as we enter a new automotive era. Tesla Motors.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?",

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Two German investors, Ingo Voigt and Fritz Nol, announced their intent to buy Fisker Automotive, the failing plug-in hybrid car company, on 11 September. Fisker’s loan was granted so the company could build an environmentally friendly luxury car called Karma in Finland and later a second vehicle named Atlantic in the United States.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It will appear in Europe next year as the Opel Ampera and in Australia as the Holden Volt in 2012. "On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). "The Volt is a case study. " The feds arent convinced.

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