Remember Karma? Or maybe Fisker rings a bell? With the exception of the branding and trademarks, the Chinese component supplier Wanxiang Group bought Fisker Automotive’s assets in 2014 when it filed for bankruptcy. The Chinese corporation founded a new company called Karma Automotive as a result of this acquisition. Fisker Automotive reestablished itself as Fisker Inc. in 2016.
Sadly, it seems Henrik Fisker and his wife battle with business administration and creating high-quality cars. The second chapter of Fisker Inc. is anticipated to end by 2024, as a succession of recalls and bad product reviews delivers the ultimate blows to its existence. This shifts the emphasis back to Karma Automotive, which seems to be in a more solid financial state, having avoided the problems encountered by its founder.
Available right now is the premium sedan with an electrified range-extender, the 2026 Karma Gyesera EREV, whose ancestry and design genesis are still traceable. Back to the original Fisker Karma, albeit with great improvements. At roughly $165,000,the Karma Gyesera is not cheap. The urgent issue is whether one should invest so much in a brand that is not well-known and whose name is not very memorable. The Amelia Concours d’Elegance, where the fully electric pre-production version was shown in March 2024, marks this as not the first sighting of the Karma Gyesera.
But this electric range-extender car (EREV) will be the first one to go on upcoming sale, including the 2026 Nissan Rogue. Karma includes EREVs for all the premium vehicles ever since it bought the assets of Fisker. Among those assets is the in-house developed EREV drivetrain, which boasts electric motors generating 566 horsepower (30 horsepower more than the Karma Revero) and 546 pound-feet of torque. Thanks to the greater horsepower and lower weight, it therefore has four seconds of 0-60 mph acceleration time, which is half a second quicker than the Revero.
