Karma Revero
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Karma, the company, is starting its effort in earnest to revive sales of its Revero—the car that started life as the ill-fated Fisker Karma. According to the federal government, Karma sold 231 of the cars in 2018, well down from the 2,667 that Fisker sold in the car's first year on the market. That's partly the result of a paucity of dealers. The company says it has 18 stores—in addition to its new Moreno Valley, California, design center—worldwide selling the cars. Those dealerships are in the U.S., Canada, and Chile. Now as the company gets ready to sell the updated 2020...
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2020 Karma Revero GT breaks cover–with smaller mustache
The 2020 Karma Revero GT will trim back its signature handlebar mustache for a bushier walrus variety. And when it goes on sale late this summer, buyers will be able to order it at a new $100 million custom design center adjacent to the Karma factory in Moreno Valley, California. "Our [Karma...
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2018 Karma Reveros recalled for side curtain airbag issue
Karma issued a stop sale on 2018 Karma Revero models following a recall for an airbag issue. The side curtain airbags have a defective rollover sensor, the company said, and may not deploy in a rollover accident. Side curtain airbags are a key safety feature in a rollover, because when they deploy...
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Karma presents its electric-car vision to China and vies for partners
Karma Automotive doesn't have just one vision for its future. It has three. 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. The...
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Karma gets farther from Fisker with 2020 Revero GT, electric car concept
Karma Automotive has shown three vehicles at the Shanghai auto show to give a glimpse of its future—potentially in the U.S. as well as China.
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Karma rebirth takes shape with coupe teaser, new design center
Karma teased its third all-electric production car and opened its design studio in California.
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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. 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. All this and more on Green Car Reports. After raiding German automakers' offices in 2017, European emissions regulators charged VW, Daimler, and BMW with colluding to avoid installing the most effective emissions equipment on their gas and diesel cars. Chrysler...
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Karma Revero gets more power, BMW 3-cylinder
The car that started out as the Fisker Karma gets a BMW engine as its range extender.
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2020 Tesla Model Y, Mazda rotary, wider VW electric plans: The Week in Reverse
Which two companies announced expanded lines of plug-in hybrids this week? What big decision did Tesla take back? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending March 15, 2019. The big news this week was Tesla's unveiling of its...
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Karma plans to relaunch with three new models at Shanghai auto show
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. At next month's Shanghai auto show, the company plans a product revival led...
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Pininfarina's Italian design may be good Karma for plug-in carmaker
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. Now that venture, renamed Karma after is primary product, following the company's revival at the hands...
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2018 Karma Revero: first drive of reborn luxury plug-in hybrid sedan
The 2018 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...
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Ten years ago, lithium-ion cell maker A123 Systems was a hot startup and a much-publicized company. This author, in fact, profiled the company for IEEE Spectrum in the technology magazine's September 2007 issue. The six years that followed proved enormously painful for the Massachusetts company, however. DON'T MISS: A123 Systems To Recall Electric-Car Battery Packs For Fisker, Others (Mar 2012) A high point was the announcement that A123 was one of two finalists in the "bakeoff" competition held by General Motors to select a battery supplier for its upcoming 2011 Chevrolet Volt. While A123...
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First TV ad for Karma Revero drops as sales to start next month
Everything old is new again, including the 2017 Karma Revero, a reborn 2012 Fisker Karma. Now its maker has released the first-ever television advertisement for the car, a spot that debuted during the 2017 U.S. Open Polo Championship, sponsored by Karma Automotive. Simply titled "Delivery," the...
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Karma gets approval to build electric cars in China
Karma parent Wanxiang received approval from Chinese authorities for an electric-car factory.
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Fisker is coming back, he says, with 400-mile electric car using graphene cells (updated)
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...
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2017 Karma Revero (nee Fisker) launch: updates, new infotainment
The 2017 Karma Revero (nee Fisker Karma) was formally unveiled to the public and to Fisker owners tonight at an event in the canyons of Laguna Beach, south of Los Angeles. Executives of the company formed from the bankrupt wreckage of Fisker Automotive pledged that they've fixed the car's 2012...
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Karma Revero vs VLF Destino: same shape, different powertrains, radically different missions
The Fisker Karma has split into the Karma Revero and VLF Destino.
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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 rebooted Karma is a modified and updated version of the car previously sold in 2012 as the Fisker Karma, before its maker shut down production and later declared bankruptcy. The Karma will now be built in Southern California by Karma Automotive, a company formed after Chinese auto-parts maker Wanxiang bought the remains of Fisker Automotive. DON'T MISS: Karma, Faraday plan large Chinese electric-car factories It also bought the...
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Karma, Faraday plan large Chinese electric-car factories
Karma parent Wanxiang and Faraday Future backer LeEco are both planning Chinese electric-car factories.
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Karma Revero (nee Fisker) to blend dealers and Tesla-like showrooms
Karma Automotive plans to use both franchised dealerships and company-owned "brand experience centers."
Stephen Edelstein