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Karma Automotive Wants To Make An Extended-Range Luxury Coupe

It’s called the Karma Amaris and it will use a BMW turbo four-cylinder mated to a generator.

Karma Amaris

Photo by: Karma Automotive

Iulian Dnistran

By: Iulian Dnistran

Mar 21, 2025 at 5:05am ET

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Karma Automotive unveils a luxury two-door extended-range electric vehicle (EREV).
Called the Amaris, it's built on an all-aluminum spaceframe.
The body is made from aluminum and carbon fiber.

This is the Karma Amaris, a two-door luxury sports car that will be manufactured by California-based Karma Automotive. That’s the small company that picked up the pieces after Fisker’s first bankruptcy and continued building improved versions of the Karma four-door plug-in hybrid sedan.

Getting back to the Amaris; it’s a rather beautiful thing, with wide thighs and “swan doors” that will supposedly swing upwards to make getting in and out as easy as possible. The design cues are heavily influenced by its four-door sibling, the Revero, itself an evolution of the original Fisker Karma.

It rides on 22-inch forged aluminum wheels with a clean-cut design that Karma calls “Constellation,” while the body is a combination of aluminum and carbon fiber. There’s also a clamshell hood up front and a pass-through spoiler at the rear that reduces drag and increases downforce.

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Under the skin, the Amaris is based on an evolution of the all-aluminum spaceframe that traces its roots to the Revero. This allows the small California company to speed up development and bring the swoopy coupe to the market quicker than if it had to do the chassis from scratch.

What makes Karma’s new coupe stand out from the crowd, however, is its powertrain. Specs are still under wraps, but we know the Amaris will be an extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) that uses a BMW-sourced four-cylinder gas engine and an electric generator. There’s also a battery in there somewhere and some electric motors that power the wheels, but these details haven’t been disclosed yet. The new gas engine is a step up from the three-cylinder 1.5-liter unit that’s currently being used by Karma.

It’s the same setup as in the RAM 1500 Ramcharger and the upcoming Scout SUV and pickup. The gas engine doesn’t power the wheels, it just turns a generator that sends juice to the battery pack. Then, the electric motors get power from the battery to propel the car.

Gallery: Karma Amaris

Karma Amaris

Source: Karma Automotive

Karma Automotive said the Amaris will be capable of accelerating from zero to 60 miles per hour in 3.5 seconds and on to a top speed of 165 mph. That’s seven-tenths of a second faster than the estimate for the yet-to-be-launched Gysera electric sedan and a second faster than the Revero plug-in hybrid.

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Speaking of the two four-door models, Karma confirmed that the Gysera it showed last year will succeed the Revero. There’s some explaining to do here, though–the Gyesera was supposed to be a Revero-based all-electric sedan, but now Karma said it will switch to an EREV powertrain “in response to changes in the near-term market demand for EVs.” As a reminder, the soon-to-be-discontinued Revero, which traces its roots to the original Fisker Karma, will be replaced with the Gyesera which is a revised version of the Revero.

Sales of the Karma Amaris coupe are slated to begin in the fourth quarter of 2026, followed by the Kaveya all-electric “super-coupe” in 2027 and the Ivara electric SUV in 2028. Before these, the performance-oriented Invictus will go on sale in the second quarter of this year, while the revised Gyesera EREV four-seater will arrive in the final quarter of 2025.

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