Fisker has finished the testing and ran a public debut of Karma at the Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California in the end of August. Now the hybrid is going to the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show for an official big presentation.
Karma runs on two electric motors which output 403 horsepower and 959 pound-feet of torque. It is safe to drive up to 50 miles on electric power alone. If the charge is out the four-cylinder gasoline engine with 260 hp turns on to run the car and recharge the 200-kilowatt lithium-ion batteries.
According to the standards set by the Society of Automotive Engineers or SAE Karma uses 67.2 mpg and emits 83 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer. The CEO, Henrik Fisker said that cars of this category cannot be judged by EPA standards because their fuel economy will show more than 100 mpg. This would really be a fulfillment of American government’s dream: sales of 15,000 Karmas a year could save 248 million gallons of gasoline and 2.5 million tons of CO2 emissions.
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