Green Car Reports

JANUARY 22, 2019

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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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

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. founded in 2007.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 31, 2021

Karma is chasing the fleet market with plug-in commercial trucks. GM’s replacement of Bolt EV batteries could bring older versions of the electric car more range than when new. Subaru gives us a peek inside the Solterra EV. And could synthetic fuels reverse the end for ICE? This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The revamped 2020 Karma Revero GT has been EPA-rated for 61 miles of all-electric driving. That allows the Revero to leapfrog past the Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid (primarily a vehicle for California) and its 47 miles of all-electric driving.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s been a long and winding road for Karma Automotive, which was born of the remains of Fisker more than five years ago and still hasn't managed to make as many cars as the original.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Karma prices the GS-6 plug-in hybrid. Karma has put a price tag on its GS-6 plug-in hybrid arriving soon, and. Alpha Motors shows us how retro-cute EVs can be styled for America. Virginia signs on with California standards. And the Toyota Mirai has us thinking about the brand’s upcoming EVs.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Karma Automotive announced Tuesday that it will now accept Bitcoin at its flagship Newport Beach location. In addition to dabbling in cryptocurrency for simple transactions, Karma will also explore theoretical blockchain applications outside of the that space, the electric-car manufacturer said in its announcement.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 5, 2019

The new Karma GT by Pininfarina will show off its much sleeker facelift at Monterey Car Week next weekend in California. The GT by Pininfarina, which made its first appearance at the Shanghai auto show in April, is a two-door coupe version of the Karma Revero sedan. Gone is the Joker grin, as well as the walrus mustache.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 3, 2020

California’s Karma is revealing a more modestly priced plug-in hybrid. Karma has revealed that a more affordable GS-5 plug-in. Eight automakers still oppose California’s right to set its own vehicle emissions rules and mandate EVs. And our Best Car To Buy shortlist is at the tech forefront.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 18, 2019

Karma Automotive doesn't have just one vision for its future. The Southern California automaker unveiled a trio of new vehicles at the Shanghai auto show this week, ranging from a near-production look of the next version of the Karma Revero to a fanciful concept called the SC1. It has three.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 17, 2024

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. Mercedes has instead been shifting toward more plug-in hybrids , with DC fast-charging capability and larger batteries—but it hasn’t downsized the engines substantially yet on those.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 8, 2019

The 2020 Ford Explorer will get a plug-in hybrid version in Europe. And Karma revealed a few details of its revised Revero for 2020. European prosecutors charged German automakers Volkswagen, Daimler, and BMW with collusion over emissions shortfalls. Fiat Chrysler will pay Tesla hundreds of millions of euros to meet emissions targets.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 16, 2017

The 2017 Karma Revero remains as much of a head-turner today as the low, sleek four-door sedan was when it debuted a decade ago under another name. It also happens to be a range-extended electric luxury sedan, though we tend to think that the Karma would sell just as well if it ran on coal dust and baby-seal blood.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 10, 2019

The latest is Karma, the maker of the Revero, continuation of the former Fisker Karma exotic plug-in hybrid. Last month, the NHTSA released a recall notice announcing that Karma is recalling 472 2012 Fisker.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A wide range of plug-in models—from Hyundai and BMW—are being recalled for potential fire risk. Karma prices its fully electric car. Tesla boosts range for much of its lineup. And Nikola could revert to a “base plan” that means no Badger. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 16, 2019

Chinese-owned, California-based Karma Automotive made clear several years ago that its aspirations go well beyond merely resurrecting production of the car originally known as the Fisker Karma.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 11, 2016

As the 2017 Karma Revero gets closer to its official launch later this year, its maker has released the first official photo of the luxury plug-in hybrid sedan. The Karma.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 13, 2019

Karma, the company that started as the new maker of the Fisker plug-in hybrid (and once Tesla-fighter) of the same name—now called Revero—plans a new birth, four years after buying the company out of bankruptcy.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Today, we preview the green cars of the 2016 Paris Motor Show, tally plug-in electric car sales for August 2016, and compare the Karma Revero and VLF Destino—two cars based on the same Fisker Karma body. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 8, 2019

The Karma Revero is getting a long-needed update later this year, and the company has just revealed a few details. You'll recall that the Revero is the continuation of the original Fisker Karma, which went on sale in 2011. The company and its manufacturing facilities for the Karma were bought out by a Chinese company.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The original production run of the Fisker Karma luxury sedan was contracted to Valmet Automotive in Finland. But as the Karma Revero, the car will be built at a new facility in California.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2009

has entered into definitive agreements to receive an additional $85 million in venture capital funding for the development and manufacturing of its Karma plug-in hybrid automobiles. Early production vehicles of the 2010 Fisker Karma are slated to come off the assembly line late this year. Fisker Automotive, Inc.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 17, 2020

The often-overlooked Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid is the closest thing on the market to the discontinued (and much-loved) Chevrolet Volt.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Karma has some of the longest plug-in range, among plug-in hybrids. GM’s Lordstown plant may soon really be building an electric truck. Hyundai is going for green-car variety in the U.S. And Toyota and BYD are new partners for electric vehicles in China. This and more, today at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2009

The Fisker Karma plug-in extended range electric vehicle ( earlier post ) made its public driving debut over the weekend, 19 months after being introduced as a concept. The Fisker Karma can reach 60 mph (97 km/h) in six seconds and has a top speed of 125 mph (201 km/h). Carbon emissions are also lower than today’s hybrids.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 24, 2019

Karma opens a new luxury design center for its 2020 Revero. Audi ramps up the number of its future vehicles that will have charge ports. And BMW releases a new ad showing the retiring chairman of Mercedes going home to drive a BMW. Tesla Navigate on Autopilot makes drivers do the work in Consumer Reports latest test.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 29, 2016

After it bought the remains of bankrupt carmaker Fisker Automotive, Chinese auto-parts Wanxiang laid out plans to relaunch Fisker's Karma luxury plug-in hybrid. With namesake Henrik Fisker long gone, those plans included a name change to Karma Automotive. DON'T MISS: Fisker Becomes Karma Automotive, To Relaunch In.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

has entered into an agreement with Fisker Automotive and Technologies Group LLC pursuant to which Quantum will license its plug-in hybrid control software to Fisker Auto Group and, in return, will receive an initial payment of $2.0 Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. million on or before 27 October 2015. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2010

has signed a definitive Supply Agreement with Fisker Automotive to supply key components and control systems for the Q-Drive powertrain system that is being incorporated in the Fisker Karma. Quantum will also receive a royalty payment on each Karma sold that incorporates Quantum’s Q-Drive.

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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

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

MAY 5, 2017

Everything old is new again, including the 2017 Karma Revero, a reborn 2012 Fisker Karma. Open Polo Championship, sponsored by Karma Automotive. Now its maker has released the first-ever television advertisement for the car, a spot that debuted during the 2017 U.S.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 22, 2019

Plug-in luxury-car maker Karma brought in a new design house to carry it into the future. Germany revealed a plan to impose a national speed limit on its famously unlimited autobahns. And our latest Twitter poll asks readers how soon they expect Ford to come through with an electric F-Series pickup.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 4, 2016

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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Green Car Reports

APRIL 10, 2020

Karma shows a new van concept. And Bentley isn’t making a convincing argument for plug-in hybrids. McLaren is optimistic about internal combustion—perhaps without the fossil-fuels part of the equation. The biggest ships—including, perhaps, cruise ships, eventually—could go fuel-cell with a new partnership.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

After four years, an economic crisis, an industry meltdown, and plug-in cars becoming politically problematic, the 2012 Fisker Karma is on the streets at last. We're still sorting out what we think about the Karma, an extended-range electric. And it's a real car.

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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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