Chris M.

Karma automotive is making its second entrance into the automobile market, officially debuting the Revero in a couple weeks time. Summary Marketing and selling the Revero is going to be tough given the quality, performance, and features of cars on the market today. Given this competition I'm surprised Karma automotive has received funding to continue development of the Fisker Karma , now renamed to the Revero. I'll present a few reasons why the Karma Revero isn't likely to make a noticeable impact on the automotive market as well as some ways they can improve their chances by making changes to the Revero. Note that the Revero's full specifications haven't been released yet. For the purposes of this analysis I'll assume the Revero is more similar to the Fisker Karma than not. The Revero is likely to improve upon these specifications but from what information has been released about the Revero it doesn't appear that these changes will significantly c...

You may have seen a few stories about the Karma Revero 's solar roof. For those that follow cars, the Revero is the re-born Fisker Karma , a hybrid gas and electric vehicle. By Fisker at speed in the fog.jpg: Fisker Auto derivative work: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Fisker went bankrupt and was bought by a Chinese automotive components company. Fisker was renamed to Karma and the car was renamed from the Karma to the Revero. Karma's website has this text on their website about the solar roof : "Our solar roof will create enough energy to power the car. No other vehicle sold in the U.S. has ever offered this capability. Our owners consider our solar roof an important element in our brand identity, and we listened." Lots of sites have written stories about the solar roof idea, copying the information from Karma without doing any kind of analysis. Solar panels can ...