Despite indications that the Fisker Karma would cost between £70-80k in the UK, it now looks like that will be £100k plus. We have to congratulate Henrik Fisker on getting Fisker Karma to market – it’s an immense achievement. But is the Fisker Karma pricing itself out of the market? We thought that Fisker were planning on [...]
The Fisker Karma finally has some official MPG figures in the US from the EPA and can now go on sale. It does 52mpg (US) or 20mpg (US) depending on use. Yes, you read that right. The Fisker Karma now has official economy figures from the EPA in America so it can go on sale [...]
The very first Fisker Karma in the UK has raised £140,000 in an auction to benefit Pratham UK, a charity providing education for children in India. The extended range Fisker Karma arrived at last year’s Paris motor show, and now the very first Karma to arrive in the UK has been auctioned in aid of charity and raised [...]
With the Fisker Karma now reaching customers, Fisker has revealed a Shooting Brake version at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Fisker will reveal a Shooting Brake version of the Fisker Karma at Frankfurt today, the first new model we’ve seen in the flesh from the eco-car company for some time. And no, this isn’t project Nina, it’s the [...]
Fisker has announced it has reached agreement with BMW for the supply of up to 100,000 BMW 4-pot turbo petrol engines from 2012/13 for Project Nina. You’ve probably got used to stories about Henrik Fisker’s eponymous car company, makers of the convincing range-extender sports saloon, the Fisker Karma. But you may not be quite as [...]
The first review of the Fisker Karma range-extender on video from a US Fisker dealer. Finally, after a rather lengthy wait, the Fisker Karma is making its way in to the hands of real customers. And real cars means the opportunity to review the Karma, something a US Fisker dealer has put on video. Of course, a [...]
The first range-extender Fisker Karma will be delivered to Leonardo di Caprio this month, with production getting to 300 cars a week by November. The Fisker Karma has been on its way for what seems a very long time. But finally, Henrik Fisker’s eponymous company is delivering what it’s been promising, and the first recipient later this month of the [...]
Fisker Automotive has confirmed that the Fisker Karma has now started production at Valmet in Finland. First cars will be with Fisker dealers in a month. It seems to have been a long time coming, but Fisker has confirmed that the Fisker Karma has started to roll off the production line at Valmet Automotive in Finland, and the first Karmas [...]
Fisker are planning to get the first Fisker Karma to customers by July 2011, and expect to sell 7,000 this year. which seems a bit far fetched. The Fisker Karma does look an impressive car. And it promises a great deal, even if it has been promising a great deal to come very soon for a very long [...]
The Fisker Karma – a 4-door plug-in hybrid with over 400bhp – will show as a production car at the 2010 Paris Motor Show. Henrik Fisker has automotive pedigree. He was responsible for cars like the Aston Martin DB9 (better not tell Ian Callum) and is intent on bringing hybrid electric super-saloons to the world. [...]
Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced a zero benefit in kind rate for electric company cars. We already have the promise of a chunk of money for the Government at some point – maybe – if you feel inclined to buy an electric car. And in a show of fiddling while Rome is burning, Chancellor Alistair Darling [...]
Fisker Automotive has bought a redundant GM plant in Wilmington, Delaware to produce a new low-cost electric hybrid – Project Nina. All the news from Fisker until recently has been about the development of the Fisker Karma, a luxury plug-in hybrid electric car. But last month we reported that Fisker had been granted a DOE [...]
Fisker has acquired funding from the DOE to complete the Karma and move forward with project NINA – a low-cost plug-in Hybrid to be made in the US. Henrik Fisker has been planning the Fisker Karma for what seems a very long time. It looks a very good stab at a luxury, plug-in electric car [...]
Fisker has announced that the Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid will average over 80mpg. A couple of weeks ago we reported that Fisker boss Henrik Fisker has been shaking the new Fisker Karma plug-in Hybrid down at the Laguna Seca racetrack in the States. And we speculated on just how economical the Karma was likely to [...]
We’re becoming a bit blasé about the accomplishments of modern car technology. We blithely moan about the lack of the ‘Drive’ in cars like the Toyota Prius, and complain when cars ‘only’ do 50mpg. How times change. But unhappy as we are at Cars UK with the world’s obsession with all things green – and [...]
