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Main > Car Makers News > Other > Watch out Fisker Karma: Hybrid Technologies working on 220mpg supercar While the two are busy suing each other, Hybrid Technologies is doing some R&D on its own new green supercar that could arrive on the market as early as next year.Hybrid Technologies is working on a lithium-ion powered hybrid that will be entered into the Automotive X Prize as a gas-electric hybrid but will be offered as an almost all-electric supercar for the rest of us. The company says that a working prototype of the un-named car will be ready by September.Hybrid Technologies said they are aiming for... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-29 04:23:14 Article Views Rating: 132 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Fisker Received 500 Orders for Karma Fisker plans to start sales of a new hybrid in the end of 2009. Right now the car is going through the first testing period in California. It is only the beginning and many other tests are waiting for Karma in the future such as crash test and the battery software system tuning. The first time the car was shown at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show and since then Fisker has already received 500 orders for the model, though Karma will cost about $80,000. By the beginning of 2010 the manufacturer plans to make... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-16 07:20:07 Article Views Rating: 143 Main > Car Makers News > Other > AutoSpies.com Scoops First Video Of Fisker Karma Hybrid In Testing! Dear 001,Here is the video I just caught of the upcoming 80MPG Fisker Karma Hybrid in testing!Talk about a supercar sound!!!!WooHoo!CANNOT wait to drive one of these!!!I could end up being the coolest car EVER!!!! [source] Full article... Article added: 2008-05-12 10:09:55 Article Views Rating: 161 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Spy shots: Fisker Karma makes an appearance in California Up until now, the Fisker Karma hasn't really been much more than a pretty face to go along with a promise. That changes today, thanks to a spy photographer who was lucky enough to catch the upcoming plug-in hybrid sedan out testing in California. Lawsuits often seem to have a dampening effect on enthusiasm, so it's good to see the Karma out and about. We can clearly see that the body is the same shape as what we all saw at its introduction earlier this year in Detroit. What we don't know yet is what's... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-12 10:09:47 Article Views Rating: 133 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Green Vehicles prepping two electric vehicles for U.S. The electric vehicles market has become one of the most watched segments as the world begins to favor fuel economy over other more speed-related aspects of a car. While start-ups such as Tesla and Fisker are already offering electric sports cars, other segments of the electric vehicle market remain wide open. A new Northern Californian company going by the name of Green Vehicles is set to enter the burgeoning market, having developed a range of new electric vehicles in secrecy. Green Vehicles is... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-12 10:09:42 Article Views Rating: 142 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Spy Shots: Fisker Karma luxury plug-in hybrid Fisker Automotive is keen to launch its Karma plug-in hybrid by the end of the next year and is hard at work testing prototypes of the upcoming eco-saloon in Southern California. Less than five months out from the concept version’s debut at the Detroit Auto Show, the new prototype reveals Fisker is keeping its promise that the production version will be almost identical to the original concept. The new Karma will be a plug-in hybrid vehicle, which means it will be able to run on electric power alone... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-12 10:09:09 Article Views Rating: 124 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Project Track Slut, Part One: Pick a weapon on the cheap Click above for a high-res shot of our newest project.As regular listeners to the podcast know, Project MR-S met its untimely demise when a truck driver clipped the rear end of our 2ZZ-powered daily-driver, spinning it into the center divider with my fiancée behind the wheel. Fortunately, Melissa made it out okay. Unfortunately, said truck driver sped off and has yet to be found. Karma's a bitch, so we sleep soundly with the knowledge that what goes around comes around.But life goes on. So with... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-04 12:02:52 Article Views Rating: 94 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Tables turned: Tesla Motors sued by transmission supplier Magna Birthing a car is always difficult, and Tesla has seen its share of problems. The biggest hurdle to getting its all-EV Roadsters in customers' garages has been the transmission. Initially the company wanted to have a two-speed unit, but the unit from its first supplier, X-Trac, wasn't durable enough. Tesla then contracted Magna to help build a tranny, before a final try at designing its own transmission also ended abortively. In the end, to get cars rolling out the door, changes were made to the motor... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-17 07:39:39 Article Views Rating: 123 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Magna sues Tesla over unpaid bill It seems electric car manufacturer Tesla is having trouble keeping its nose clean these days - just a day after our report on Tesla suing Fisker Automotive for deliberately stealing designs, the electric-sports-car startup is now embroiled in another lawsuit and this time ‘round it’s playing the role of defendant. Tesla is being sued by automotive components design company, Magna Powertrain. Tesla had originally contracted Magna to design and build 800 Dark Star transmissions in the first year... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-17 07:39:35 Article Views Rating: 165 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Tesla sues Fisker over design ideas Tesla Motors can't seem to keep itself out of the press, can it? The newest flare-up concerns rival Fisker and claims that the automaker has stolen trade secrets and copied design concepts.In a lawsuit filed Monday by Tesla, the carmaker accuses Henrik Fisker -- whom the company had hired to design its WhiteStar sedan -- of accepting the work to "gain access to confidential design information and trade secrets."The company alleges that Fisker then used that knowledge to launch a competing vehicle, and... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-16 05:53:12 Article Views Rating: 116 |
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