Pulled from Wired:
blog.wired.com/cars/2008/...est-in.html
Hot damn! We're pretty sure the Fisker Coachworks Karma will do for the plug-in electric vehicle what the Tesla Roadster has done for the electric car - raise the bar of what is possible with green technology while making it sexy.
The $80,000 Karma is a marvel of design and engineering that melds classic styling cues with liminal technology. The company claims the car's lithium-ion batteries provide 50 miles of emissions-free full-electric driving, and the Q-Drive hybrid drivetrain — a small four-cylinder engine attached to a very large generator — purportedly propel the Karma from zero to 60 in 5.8 seconds and to a top speed of 125 mph. OK, you won't outrun Johnny Law, but you'll be able to dust a Prius.
"This car," company CEO and lead designer Henrik Fisker told us, "is more enviromentally friendly than a Toyota Prius."
And it's, you know, smokin' hot. Which is the point. Fisker, who designed the BMW Z8 and Aston Martin DB9, said the fastest way to bring green technology into the mainstream is to make it desirable.
blog.wired.com/cars/2008/...est-in.html
Hot damn! We're pretty sure the Fisker Coachworks Karma will do for the plug-in electric vehicle what the Tesla Roadster has done for the electric car - raise the bar of what is possible with green technology while making it sexy.
The $80,000 Karma is a marvel of design and engineering that melds classic styling cues with liminal technology. The company claims the car's lithium-ion batteries provide 50 miles of emissions-free full-electric driving, and the Q-Drive hybrid drivetrain — a small four-cylinder engine attached to a very large generator — purportedly propel the Karma from zero to 60 in 5.8 seconds and to a top speed of 125 mph. OK, you won't outrun Johnny Law, but you'll be able to dust a Prius.
"This car," company CEO and lead designer Henrik Fisker told us, "is more enviromentally friendly than a Toyota Prius."
And it's, you know, smokin' hot. Which is the point. Fisker, who designed the BMW Z8 and Aston Martin DB9, said the fastest way to bring green technology into the mainstream is to make it desirable.
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Re: Sexiest Plug-in Hybrid Ever....
Mon, January 14, 2008 - 7:28 PMSaw it today for the first time. Damn!
The interior sort of sucks (unless you like your interiors to look like a sine wave met a leather maker) but I could probably get used to it. Now I'm torn, Tesla or Karma?
Good thing neither is shipping any time soon. Takes the pressure off. :-)
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