Comments on: Fisker Karma Drivers Achieved An Average Of 150 MPG http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/22/fisker-karma-drivers-achieved-an-average-of-150-mpg/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/22/fisker-karma-drivers-achieved-an-average-of-150-mpg/#comment-154524 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:47:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=48737#comment-154524 Why do I have a feeling you don’t actually have a Fisker?…

]]> By: Barry Woods http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/22/fisker-karma-drivers-achieved-an-average-of-150-mpg/#comment-154478 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:52:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=48737#comment-154478 My Fisker exceeds that mpg. Of course that’s because it has to be flatbeded when the battery dies and the brakes go out and the remote mirror motor burns out and…

]]> By: DRJDR http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/22/fisker-karma-drivers-achieved-an-average-of-150-mpg/#comment-152291 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:15:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=48737#comment-152291 What exactly does this company have of any value? Engine by GM, drive train and battery in China. Fisker’s contribution is a cooling system that catches fire and software that doesn’t work. Being a design company doesn’t make you a car company. Oh, and how many BILLION shares outstanding? Get those designer suits while you can !

]]> By: Defendor http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/22/fisker-karma-drivers-achieved-an-average-of-150-mpg/#comment-152181 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:15:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=48737#comment-152181 It gets 20 MPG burning gas, and it gets 50 MPGe on electricity. The 150MPG claim is pure green-washing smoke screen.

At 50 MPGe, even when running solely on electricy it will create more GHG emissions than normal Prius burning gas (almost twice as much). The Karma is not a green car. Electricity isn’t free, it’s production creates emissions. So you have to use it efficiently for EVs to be better than Gas cars. The Karma does not use electricity efficiently. Not even close.

As far as being higher performance. It does 0-60 in 8 seconds in EV mode. My econobox does that. It needs to run the generator to get down to 6 seconds that might be considered decent performance, but then you are burning gas.

Where a Tesla is twice as fast (0-60 in 4 seconds – actual high performance), and nearly twice as efficient 89 MPGe, as a Karma running purely on batteries.

The Karma is a bad Green Washing Joke.

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