Karma as in Fisker Karma is Back in the Game

snappy looking car...is still the same PHEV?
Is that what Bob Lutz was assisting on

 

Interesting they have the solar power roof charging that Prime is not putting in USA right now. Confirms it is good idea though...I like that idea: no pumps, no plugs. self powered car, for some % of miles.

Looks like Virginia outlet is kaput for now, they showed me a Fisker once at an event.

 

The old Toyota HQ?

I hope the new team solves the problems I saw in 2009 at the Detroit Auto Show.

Bob Wilson

 

It's the same car with new CEO's. Many don't know about the car due to them going out of business so fast. But the old stats are still all over the web;

Fisker Karma Gets a Real-World Fuel Economy Test - Autotrader

or here;

2012 Fisker Karma Review By Joe Wiesenfelder

or here;

2012 Fisker Karma’s Dismal Fuel-Economy Ratings Explained (Hint: It Weighs 5300 Pounds) | Car and Driver Blog

or here;
Consumer Reports says Fisker Karma has 'numerous shortcomings' - Autoblog

and then there are the hucksters;

Pages of those kinds of reviews, unfortunately. I hate seeing any plugin hybrid get panned so badly - and it makes sense that it'd go out of business after the motor head journalists unanimously beat up on it. It's like they're going to try & play ball - but they're starting the game - bottom of the 9th - 5 runs down, no one on base, and Fiskar's count is 0&2. Still, who knows ... they may still be able to turn it around, if you believe, cross your fingers & wish upon a star.
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The company is no longer Fisker, but Karma.
The Karma car might have an update with EV range of 50 miles, but I'll wait for better sources on how that is determined.
Chinese Billionaire Takes On Musk With Electric-Car Reboot - Bloomberg

Lutz wanted to take the gliders and make them ICE cars with a Corvette V8.

It's a $135k car. The $3000 it would cost for the Prime's solar roof system isn't noticed. With cars in that price range having $14k paint color options, it isn't a segment for judging if an option makes sense.

 

will be interesting to see how much cash drain the chinese can stand up to.

 

I am not a Karma fan except I think they have a good look. But I think that huckster put a smoky rag under the car to make the smoke look bad from the exhaust.

Funny I thought Hill said that

 

I quickly looked through the website, but didn't see any pics of actual cars themselves? Are there any pics? If so I obviously missed them?

Price on these cars?

 

Pre banko - they were Starting @ over $100k
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OK then, disregard my last and I'll be about facing out of this thread. LOL!

Tesla competition obviously...

 

They can do Tesla's for over $30,000 less - emissions free to boot.
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Fisker Reveals Production Version of Luxury Electric Car - Gas 2
According to this older article - the fisker (or karma) isn't an ev (noticed the op put the thread under the ev threads) - but rather a parallel hybrid. Hmmm. Maybe semantics ?
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It does plug into the grid, and I think PriusChat has enough subsections for other cars.

 

I wonder if /when the new company will actually get their first customer. Haven't heard of any lines forming to buy one. Maybe after the holidays ? could be everyone's still out of town for the labor day weekend.

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i'm trying to figure out where to make my deposit. bank of china?