Karma Automotive on Thursday unveiled the Amaris, a plug-in hybrid coupe the company says is due to start production in the fourth quarter of next year, and confirmed that it’s moving closer to a replacement for the Revero sedan.
Shown at the company’s first Create Karma production presentation event in Irvine, California, the Amaris will plug a gap in Karma’s product cadence created by the delay of the all-electric Kaveya, a 1,000-hp supercar that was originally due to arrive in 2026 but is being pushed back to 2027 “in response to changes in the near-term market demand for EVs,” Karma said.
The Amaris uses a version of the aluminum spaceframe architecture of the Karma Revero sedan—the company’s sole production model at the moment—which Karma hopes will speed up development. The Revero and its platform can trace their origins back to the original Fisker Karma, the design of which pre-dated even the Tesla Model S as an aspirational green car.
Karma Revero Invictus
Karma was created from the remains of the original Fisker Automotive, which went bankrupt in 2013, and funds from Chinese parts supplier Wanxiang. Founder Henrik Fisker had left the company by then, and later went on to found another automtive startup, Fisker Inc., that sold the Ocean electric SUV before its own bankruptcy in 2024.
Like the Revero, the Amaris will use a gasoline engine as a generator. But a larger turbo-4 will replace the turbo-3 used in the Revero. Karma expects 0-60 mph acceleration in less than 3.5 seconds, which would be about 0.4 second quicker than the limited-edition Invictus performance version of the Revero, and a 165-mph top speed.
Karma Gyesera
Karma has teased numerous additional models over the years, but the Revero has remained in one form or another since the 2017 model year. Now Karma is planning to replace it with the Gyesera, a composite-bodied sedan unveiled in all-electric form last year. Karma announced at the same Thursday that the Gyesera will launch with a plug-in hybrid powertrain, and will use the same version of the Revero platform as the Amaris.
The Gyesera and the now-delayed Kaveya electric supercar were part of a revamp of the brand announced in 2023, after several other proposed products simply never showed up. And earlier this year the company indicated that its push to power fleets and commercial vehicles with the powertrain tech from its luxury cars was no longer a priority.