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. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Are gas stations.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 15, 2019

Geely launches a new electric-vehicle brand, and Karma teases more about its future product plans. And Tesla wasn't the only one with a plug-in vehicle sales slump in the first quarter. As we ramp up for auto shows in Shanghai and New York, it's the start of what's bound to be a busy week here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 2, 2011

For as long as we can remember, there’s been an ongoing love-to-hate relationship between the BBC's Top Gear show and electric cars. Until yesterday that is, when Top Gear Magazine caught everyone off guard by announcing that its Luxury Car of The Year was none other than the $95,900 Fisker Karma Plug-in Hybrid.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 24, 2011

When you buy an electric car, you will most likely need a charging station. As buyers start to bring home plug-in cars, they will also expect their dealer to help them acquire and install a 240-Volt charging station (technically known as an EVSE, though few people call them that).

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Electric Cars are for Girls

DECEMBER 20, 2008

Fisker's Karma is a production-ready plug-in hybrid, - meaning TODAY, not 2010 - and it's coming to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on January 15th.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

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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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

2021 Is Here: Here Are the Top 10 Electric Car Companies. Picking the Top 10 electric car makers now involves making some choices as the number of vehicles available increases. Picking the Top 10 electric car makers now involves making some choices as the number of vehicles available increases.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 2, 2011

Much attention and too little perspective has been focused the monthly sales reports for the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf, the first mass-market plug-in electric cars. Last summer, a.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 22, 2016

Danish car designer Henrik Fisker appears to have moved on from his eponymous company and the Karma plug-in luxury sedan. Fisker Automotive is now Karma Automotive, and is working its way back from bankruptcy under the wing of Chinese automotive supplier Wanxiang.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 11, 2016

China is the world's largest new-car market, and generous government incentives have made it a particularly strong market for vehicles that plug in. To take advantage of that high demand, at least two companies are apparently moving ahead with plans for large factories dedicated to electric cars.

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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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Electric Cars are for Girls

MARCH 6, 2009

Maybe you saw the Fisker Karma, a plug-in hybrid luxury sedan, in Detroit this year. Think I like her better than the Tesla Roadster?

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 24, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: New Fisker Karma plug-in hybrids may arrive by 2015, why workplace electric-car charging matters, and Oklahoma adds a fee for homes that connect green energy sources to the grid. All this and more on Green Car Reports. GM may be.'

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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. Last year, we identified six plug-in hybrid vehicles on sale during 2013. This year, the list gains three new entries (from BMW, Cadillac, and Mitsubishi) and loses one (the Fisker Karma).

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 4, 2015

Today we follow a cross-country Tesla Model S road trip, track the market for used Fisker Karma sedans, and see why plans to sell the Kia Soul EV electric car outside California are being moved up. All this and more on Green Car Reports. We updated our February plug-in electric car sales report with more information.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Here at GreenCarReports.com, we want to be among the first to drive electric cars and other plug-ins, new hybrids, clean diesels, and so forth. We've driven a lot of them, but one we haven't is the Fisker Karma. Some crave Chevies, others follow Ferrari.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 16, 2010

We've written before about the schedule for the 2011 Fisker Karma, which (like many other electric cars) has slipped a bit since the car was first unveiled.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 6, 2019

BMW teams up with Jaguar Land Rover on electric cars. Karma spreads its dealer network. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Fiat Chrysler rescinds its offer to Renault. And a hydrogen shortage is gripping Northern California fuel-cell drivers.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 6, 2019

BMW teams up with Jaguar Land Rover on electric cars. Karma spreads its dealer network. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Fiat Chrysler rescinds its offer to be bought by Renault. And a hydrogen shortage is gripping Northern California fuel-cell drivers.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 18, 2015

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

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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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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. I started learning about, writing about, and promoting electric cars in 2007. Debra Bushweit Galliani in 2013 with our first electric car.

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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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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 3, 2009

Actually, it’s a plug-in hybrid much like the Chevy Volt. After both Tesla and Chrysler chose the Elise and Europa, respectively, for their slot car-fast EVs, it only makes sense that the car company named after a flower would make its own “flower power&# speedster. Lotus Evora 2+2. Well, it had to happen.

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Green Cars News

JULY 19, 2011

The new plug-in petrol electric luxury saloon car, the Fisker Karma, will soon benefit from emission after-treatment catalysts after an agreement was reached with Clean Diesel Technologies Inc.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 17, 2017

Today, two cars with plugs return—one luxury plug-in hybrid, and one all-electric minicar in a couple of years—plus grim news about diesel emissions, an ambitious electric motorcycle ride, a phone app for British electric-car drivers, and a scary IIHS video.

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All Cars Electric

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

After several rounds of delays and price increases, electric car startup Fisker says it will start production next month for the Karma, a luxury plug-in hybrid priced at $95,900.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Over the next 12 months, carmakers will introduce several new plug-in electric vehicles. One question that's frequently asked of GreenCarReports.com--and many others too: Does recharging electric cars pose a threat to the electricity grid?

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Green Car Reports

MAY 13, 2011

Fisker Automotive, which manufactures luxury plug-in electric hybrid cars, has raised an extra $100 million in its third round of funding to help fund production of its luxury sedan and a second, cheaper electric car that is geared toward more mainstream hybrid electric car buyers.

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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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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2009

This new company, Bright Automotive , is founded by ex-GM EV1 people, and the super efficient Rocky Mountain Institute to make plug-in hybrids in Indiana. 195, Bright will be building cars that “do more with less&# , a philosophy MacCready was famous for (and the title of a wonderful biography on him). by: Michael Kanellos.

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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.

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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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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Powerful, Sleek, Plug-in Hybrid Luxury Coupe. The Polestar 1, launched in 2019, was the first car released from what once was the performance division of Volvo. It came on with a bang, winning many Car of the Year awards, recognized for its design, performance and ride comfort. News: Shanghai Auto Show: Karma.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

Funny that this article cites “a shortage of public charging stations&# as the sole reason for auto makers scrapping electric vehicles in the 1990s. Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday.

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Green Cars News

MAY 9, 2009

Indianapolis based battery market EnerDel has secured a huge coup as it announced that is has signed a letter of intent to power the Fisker Karma. The Karma, set to be the standard bearer for plug-in hybrid vehicles, is to be launched in June 2010.

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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. Price: $87,000.

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