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  • 2020 Karma Revero Gets BMW’s TwinPower Turbo Engine

    2020 Karma Revero Gets BMW’s TwinPower Turbo Engine

    Karma Automotive is all set to reveal its all new 2020 Revero luxury electric vehicle at Auto Shanghai 2019 and while there’s one teaser out yet, we didn’t know what the car will be powered by. The company announced that the 2020 Revero will use a BMW TwinPower turbo three-cylinder in-line engine supplied by BMW AG to power an on-board electric generator. BMW AG started working with Karma in 2015 to help develop the onboard generator systems used in the company’s new Revero.

    Karma’s engineering team embarked on a complete redesign of the all-electric powertrain that underpins the new 2020 Revero. After extensive evaluation the team selected the highly-charged BMW engine as the optimal choice to support a new and more powerful high-voltage NMC lithium-ion battery pack and a new, transversely mounted, twin-motor rear drive module (RDM).

    Thanks to this engine the performance of the Revero will be improved too and the car will be able to go from 0-96 kmph in just 4.5 seconds which is a second faster than the model it replaced. The 2020 Revero, along with Karma’s Pininfarina-designed concept car and its all-electric Vision concept car, will form the automaker’s product announcement at Auto Shanghai 2019.

    Bob Kruse, Karma’s Chief Technology Officer said, “BMW AG is a natural fit for Karma’s luxury-tech focus because it is a proven technology leader renowned for conceiving and delivering ground-breaking innovations.”

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  • Karma queues up 3 vehicles for Shanghai auto show

    Karma queues up 3 vehicles for Shanghai auto show

    Karma Automotive is prepping three vehicles — a concept car developed with Italian design house Pininfarina, the next-generation Revero electric car and the Karma Vision concept – that it hopes will propel the brand in a new direction.

    They will debut next month at the Shanghai auto show.

    “Taken together, Karma’s Shanghai Big Three represents our transformation from an old-value car manufacturer to a company building long-term value in part by becoming an open-platform luxury high-tech automotive incubator,” Karma CEO Lance Zhou said in a statement.

    Karma Automotive, headquartered in Irvine, Calif., was founded after the demise of Fisker Automotive, created by noted designer Henrik Fisker. The company’s sole product was the gasoline-electric Fisker Karma luxury car. Chinese supplier Wanxiang Group bought Fisker Automotive in a bankruptcy auction and put a revised version of the Karma back into production as the Revero in 2016.

    Karma plans to introduce a revised version of the Revero this year. The car is sold through a network of 19 stores in the U.S., Canada and Chile.

    The company released little information about the three vehicles scheduled for the Shanghai auto show, which opens April 16.

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