Karma Automotive has announced a new modular platform that features a flat floor EV architecture. The new E-Flex platform is one of five demonstration projects designed to illustrate Karma’s technical direction and capabilities. Karma’s Everyday BEV E-Flex is a single-motor, flat battery pack, front-wheel-drive platform that includes an 80 kWh battery and Karma’s new Silicon… Read more »
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Karma Automotive reveals new Level 4 autonomous van platform
Karma Automotive has been introducing a series of E-Flex Platforms, which can be configured up to 22 different ways, and can support both EVs and PHEVs. The company recently debuted its first product in the series, an extended-range EV based on its 2020 Revero GT. Additional demonstration platforms in the pipeline for the coming months… Read more »
Karma shows 3 plug-in vehicles at Shanghai auto show
California-based Karma Automotive presented 3 new vehicles at the recent Shanghai auto show. Karma’s “Shanghai Big Three” are: the 2020 Karma Revero GT, a PHEV that features a BMW three-cylinder in-line gas engine; the Karma Pininfarina GT coupe, a version of the Revero GT with a new body style, panels and interior designed by Italian… Read more »
Karma releases specs for its Revero PHEV
Karma Automotive, the successor to the ill-fated Fisker, has officially launched the Revero, a plug-in hybrid based on the earlier Fisker Karma. The Revero has a 21.4 kWh LiFePO battery pack mounted in the center of the vehicle. Electric range is an estimated 50 miles, 0-60 time is 5.4 seconds, and top speed is a… Read more »
Karma owner Wanxiang to build major new EV plant in China
Wanxiang Group, the Chinese owner of Karma Automotive, has confirmed plans to build a $375-million plant in China to produce plug-in vehicles. The plant, which will be built in Wanxiang’s headquarters city of Hangzhou, will be able to produce 50,000 extended-range electric cars a year, according to the company. A spokesman said Wanxiang has yet… Read more »
Karma announces supply agreement with BMW
Karma Automotive (formerly Fisker) has announced that BMW will supply a wide range of hybrid and EV components, including high-voltage battery charging systems, for Karma’s new vehicle that’s now in development. Karma will integrate BMW components into its flagship PHEV, which it plans to re-launch in 2016. The company says it already a next generation… Read more »
Karma is Fisker is Karma: The Luxury PHEV company rebrands and continues hiring
Fisker Automotive, the maker of the star-crossed plug-in hybrid sports car called the Karma, has now changed its name to Karma Automotive. The Fisker story has been colorful, and mostly tragic, since renowned designer Henrik Fisker co-founded the company in 2007. It was involved in a lawsuit with Tesla, became an issue in the 2012… Read more »
Fisker to be renamed Elux, relaunch the Karma by mid-2016
Fisker Automotive will be renamed Elux, unnamed sources have told Reuters. The company, now owned by the Wanxiang Group, plans to relaunch the Karma PHEV sports car in mid-2016. The Elux Karma is expected to be strongly based on Henrik Fisker’s original Karma design. It will not be assembled in Finland, the sources said, but… Read more »
Delivery delays led to destruction for 338 ill-fated Karmas
"All or virtually all of the vehicles [destroyed] were subject to a safety recall requiring the replacement of cooling fans before they could be distributed lawfully to retail dealerships."
Fisker sues insurance company after it refuses claim for flooded Karmas
Fisker filed suit against the insurer in the New York Supreme Court on Friday, saying that the ruined Karmas, worth about $33 million.