Yahoo Autos Karma Kaveya leads company's turnaround lineup of ultra-lux EVs
Over the weekend, Karma Automotive CEO Marques McCammon presided over the re-relaunch of the 10-year-old automaker. The way forward will be led in spirit by this, the Karma Kaveya coupe. We say "in spirit" because the car isn't due until the end of 2025; however, it sets the tone for the vehicles coming before then, which includes an updated Revero range-extender EV and the Gyesera "touring sedan."
As a primer on how we got here, Henrik Fisker co-founded Fisker Automotive and launched the Fisker Karma EV in 2011. The ex-designer's first foray into launching an EV company didn't go well as the company out of business two years later. Chinese parts company Wanxing Group bought some of the assets as eventual products for a new company called Karma Automotive, founded in 2014. Karma Automotive transformed the former Fisker Karma into the Karma Revero in 2016. Despite the occasional updated flagship and LA Auto Show concept, the situation hasn't changed much. In March of this year, though, Wanxing installed McCammon as president, and he poached Michelle Christensen, who penned the latest Acura NSX, to be the company's head of design.
So here we are with the Kaveya, its butterfly doors stuck midway down a carbon fiber body that's 187.7 inches long, 78.8 inches wide, and 49.4 inches high, on a 104-inch wheelbase. The footprint is 1.6 inches longer than the 2024 Mercedes-AMG GT Coupe we just drove, its width within an inch, its height 4 inches lower. Buyers with creaky hips and knees need to stay away from this one. Underneath the composite panels is an aluminum spaceframe with an all-aluminum suspension. The Kaveya rear-driver comes first, in Q4 2025, packing 536 horsepower. The all-paw model follows a year later, making a combined 1,180 horsepower and 1,270 pound-feet of torque. Despite the AWD trim packing a 120-kWh battery, range is quoted as "greater than 250 miles" — a suspiciously small figure for a car three years away.
