Karma on Friday unveiled the Ivara idea at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, one of many premier occasions of 2024 Monterey Automobile Week that ran final week in California.
Becoming a member of it on Karma’s stand had 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 modern, nearly coupe-like design, and is slated to spawn a manufacturing model by the tip of 2027. It seats 4 and options design parts that Karma mentioned will characteristic 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 more likely to be a sequence plug-in hybrid setup much like what the corporate already gives in its Revero sedan.
2020 Karma Revero GT with out there Sport package deal
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 spread of 80 miles utilizing the battery alone, and greater than 360 miles with the gasoline engine employed.
The corporate beforehand deliberate to solely launch electrical autos past the Revero, although cooling demand for EVs means Karma is now more likely to so as to add extra PHEV powertrains.
Karma Gyesera
The Gyesera can be more likely 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 nicely to.”
Marques McCammon
The Kaveya for now will likely be provided 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 value will likely be round $300,000, Karma has beforehand mentioned.
Karma at Monterey Automobile Week mentioned the Kaveya will likely be a real software-defined automobile (SDV) that includes expertise developed with Intel. An SDV is basically a automobile outfitted with software program and {hardware} that enable 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 out there is the Revero, a closely up to date model of the previous Fisker Karma. The corporate only some years in the past deliberate to supply luxurious autos alongside business autos, although it now plans to focus completely on luxurious autos with a excessive degree of personalization.
It needs to place itself as an American ultra-luxury model, not in contrast to Duesenberg greater than a century in the past. Manufacturing of the brand new Karmas will likely be dealt with on the firm’s plant in Moreno Valley, California, the place the Revero is constructed.
