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BMW to supply Karma Automotive with powertrain components for its luxury plug-in hybrid

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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.

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

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Fisker, the luxury plug-in hybrid car company that went bankrupt in 2013, was founded by a car designer. Henrik Fisker, the brand's namesake was a designer at BMW before forming his own company.

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2016 Mercedes GLE550e Driven, BMW Plug-In Hybrid Prototype, Fisker Karma Update: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, we take a quick spin in the 2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE550e plug-in hybrid, examine a new BMW plug-in hybrid prototype, and check on Fisker's progress in restarting production of the Karma luxury sedan. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Fisker Automotive enters Québec market; eligible for Québec Drive Electric incentive

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Fisker Automotive will begin selling its extended range electric luxury cars in Montreal, Québec. Fisker of Montreal, the first Fisker retailer in Québec and the fourth in Canada, was formed by local businessmen Gad Bitton, president of Holand Automotive Group, and Norman Hébert, president and CEO of Groupe Park Avenue.

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Fisker is coming back, he says, with 400-mile electric car

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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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Report: Mercedes pulls the plug on range-extended EV possibilities

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BMW used a range extender with its i3 REx, and at the end of the life cycle essentially said that the batteries had improved enough to push the idea to extinction. One of the few other vehicles to have used such a system is the Karma Revero —also called the GS-6 and, originally, the Fisker Karma. But in 2021 it aborted that plan.

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Karma Automotive (Nee Fisker) To Use BMW Electric-Car Powertrains

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Karma Automotive--the carmaker formerly known as Fisker Automotive--says it will use BMW powertrain components in upcoming production models. BMW will supply high-voltage battery charging systems and "a wide range of hybrid and EV systems" for the Karma luxury sedan, which the company expects to relaunch in 2016.

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