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Pininfarina's Italian design may be good Karma for plug-in carmaker

Green Car Reports

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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Karma Revero (nee Fisker) now in pilot production in CA

Green Car Reports

After four years, the car formerly known as the Fisker Karma is back in production under new corporate stewardship. Now called the Karma Revero, it's being relaunched under the aegis of Chinese automotive supplier Wanxiang, which bought the remains of Fisker Automotive after the carmaker's 2013 bankruptcy.

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Fisker Becomes Karma Automotive, To Relaunch In 2016

Green Car Reports

Henrik Fisker hasn't been involved with his namesake company since before it declared bankruptcy in 2013. But Fisker Automotive has continued to bear his name since being purchased by Chinese automotive supplier Wanxiang.

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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

Clean Fleet Report

First Drive: 2013 RAV4 EV. Coda Automotive , with its warmed-over Chinese sedan, has departed, but Fisker (now Karma) Automotive has revived its high-end plug-in hybrid under new Chinese ownership. The Swedes (with some Chinese help) are bringing more EVs. We’ve tested most of those.

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One way or another, Fisker Automotive may soon be off the market

Green Car Congress

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. Delays in production and last-minute design changes drove the price to build a Karma much higher than the company could sell them for.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Hybrid Sonata model year 2011, possible PHEV version in 2013. Reuters ) 1/8/07 Indefatigable auto entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin, no longer planning to import Chinese-made cars to the U.S.,

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