Karma: This $107,850 plug-in hybrid Fisker Karma had to be towed back to the dealership after a test driver couldn’t start it following a brief drive on a test track (YouTube / Consumer Reports)
Karma: This $107,850 plug-in hybrid Fisker Karma had to be towed back to the dealership after a test driver couldn’t start it following a brief drive on a test track (YouTube / Consumer Reports)
It’s like tossing money into a bonfire.
Until they work out the battery problem, these things are just not going to work.
Its like my battery powered drill at home.
It’s great not to have to lug around a cord, but every time I go to use it the battery needs charging , it gets me half way through a job and it quits and the battery stops taking a charge after a year. The drill is like new and I have to buy a new battery which costs as much as a new drill.
I have bought about 5 of the things and tossed them in the trash when the battery dies.
Bad Karma, bad. Poetic, isn’t it?
The only reason the rich and famous have them is that they were given to them for free.
But, but, but ... its the thought that counts, plus all of our watermelon friends get a piece of the action.
Well, at 108k...They will now include a flatbed hauler for 15k more. “Your welcome auto buyer”.
It’s all so unnecessary. If karma is real then it’s only fitting that it fails. What’s not fitting is that people involved in the scam are getting rich.
If an Electric Car's battery goes dead can you jump start it from another Electric Car?I ask because I've never seen this mentioned or addressed.
Or, can it be jump started at all?
And, we just had to call AAA on Monday to get our daughter's car started. She needed a new battery which they brought with them and put in faster than the speed of light or ----- faster than a Fisker Karma on a test drive :-)
AAA and all auto clubs will be doing a lot of towing the more of these Clown Cars hit the road. Not to mention Ambulances when these things get crushed like a soda can from what was an old 'fender bender'. (And if it's hit by a Semi all they'll need are shovels.)
I still haven't heard what happens to the junk batteries from these rolling piles of junk.
Anyone?
It’s a beautiful car, as well it should be at that price. I won’t celebrate a test failure, will note that CR isn’t the most pro-car publication in the world and is in fact rather dour, and that there is nothing controversial at all about a hybrid gas-electric system. They’ve worked well for going on a decade and do deliver on the promise of improved fuel economy.
I hope Fisker recovers from this and goes on to a grand, successful future.
Their dogma ran over their Karma.
Occasionally, when I am in traffic, I see a woman driving a car which has bumper stickers saying she is a witch/wiccan or some such and one that reads, “My Karma ran over Your Dogma”. It seems to me as if Obama’s Bad Karma has run over Obama’s Bad (Envirowacko) Dogma with no help from the outside world.
Confucius say man who buy Karma car get goes-around comes-around run-around.
Maybe it can be recycled.
How long was the extension cord for this plug-in electric car?