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More 2012 Fisker Karma Woe: Consumer Reports Review Savages Plug-In Hybrid

Green Car Reports

The well-respected Consumer Reports doesn't pull any punches, and its review of the 2012 Fisker Karma range-extended electric luxury sedan is no exception. The magazine all but savaged the car, calling it "full of flaws" and deeming its touchscreen controls an "ergonomic disaster."

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Dead Fisker Karmas: One May Be A Fluke, But Is Two A Trend?

Green Car Reports

First off, just to be clear, the photo above is NOT a dead Fisker. It shows the 2012 Fisker Karma we road-tested three weeks ago parked in front of a Tesla Motors dealer in Los Angeles. But while our Fisker was running fine that day, Consumer Reports was not so lucky this week.

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Electric-Car-Hating Top Gear Names Fisker Karma Luxury Car Of The Year

Green Car Reports

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. 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.

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Tesla Model S To Be Evaluated By Consumer Reports

Green Car Reports

Let's hope that the Tesla Model S fares better than the Fisker Karma did. The respected consumer testing magazine notoriously savaged the Fisker Karma in a review last September. Specifically.

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2012 Tesla Model S: Consumer Reports Joins Chorus Of Praise (Unofficially)

Green Car Reports

Fisker Automotive knows this better than most, after its Karma range-extended sedan was savaged by the magazine earlier this year. It isn't easy to impress Consumer Reports. In contrast, the 2012 Tesla Model S looks to have gone down rather well, CR describing it as "a revelation".

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Battery maker A123 quietly became a half-billion-dollar company

Green Car Reports

This author, in fact, profiled the company for IEEE Spectrum in the technology magazine's September 2007 issue. Ten years ago, lithium-ion cell maker A123 Systems was a hot startup and a much-publicized company. The six years that followed proved enormously painful for the Massachusetts company, however. DON'T MISS: A123 Systems To Recall.

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Technology Review: First Plug-in Hybrid to Be Sold in the United States

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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. The Karma can be refueled quickly.)