Karma on Friday unveiled the Ivara idea at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, one of many premier occasions of 2024 Monterey Automotive Week that ran final week in California.
Becoming a member of it on Karma’s stand have been the beforehand revealed Kaveya sports activities automobile and Gyesera sport sedan. The Kaveya was proven in Monterey with a revised inside that Karma mentioned represents the design deliberate for manufacturing.
The Ivara is an SUV with a glossy, virtually coupe-like design, and is slated to spawn a manufacturing model by the top of 2027. It seats 4 and options design components that Karma mentioned will function on its future lineup.
Karma mentioned the Ivara is being developed to supply the selection of battery-electric and plug-in hybrid powertrains. Karma did not say what PHEV expertise it plans to make use of, although it is prone to be a collection plug-in hybrid setup much like what the corporate already presents in its Revero sedan.
2020 Karma Revero GT with obtainable Sport bundle
The Revero includes a pair of electrical motors on the rear axle delivering a mixed 536 hp, and a BMW-sourced turbocharged 1.5-liter inline-3 sitting up entrance and serving purely as a generator for the battery. Karma estimates a variety of 80 miles utilizing the battery alone, and greater than 360 miles with the fuel engine employed.
The corporate beforehand deliberate to solely launch electrical automobiles past the Revero, although cooling demand for EVs means Karma is now prone to so as to add extra PHEV powertrains.
Karma Gyesera
The Gyesera can also be prone to provide a PHEV powertrain. The sedan was initially deliberate to launch this yr as an EV, although talking with Automotive Information (subscription required) on the reveal of the Ivara, Karma chief Marques McCammon hinted that the Gyesera could also be modified to suit a PHEV powertrain.
“We have listened to the market and we’re leveraging our flexibility,” he mentioned. “You will see some modifications within the Gyesera platform that the market will reply properly to.”
Marques McCammon
The Kaveya for now shall be supplied with a battery-electric powertrain solely. The sports activities automobile is on observe for launch in 2026 and is promised with as much as 1,000 hp. The beginning worth shall be round $300,000, Karma has beforehand mentioned.
Karma at Monterey Automotive Week mentioned the Kaveya shall be a real software-defined car (SDV) that includes expertise developed with Intel. An SDV is basically a car outfitted with software program and {hardware} that permit it to obtain over-the-air updates, probably all through its total lifespan.
Karma Kaveya
Karma is the corporate born out of the stays of the unique Fisker Automotive that went bankrupt in 2013, and its first and sole mannequin presently obtainable is the Revero, a closely up to date model of the previous Fisker Karma. The corporate just a few years in the past deliberate to supply luxurious automobiles alongside industrial automobiles, although it now plans to focus solely on luxurious automobiles with a excessive degree of personalization.
It desires to place itself as an American ultra-luxury model, not not like Duesenberg greater than a century in the past. Manufacturing of the brand new Karmas shall be dealt with on the firm’s plant in Moreno Valley, California, the place the Revero is constructed.