What is the 2018 Karma Revero?

hey guys welcome to Grand Touring automobiles up town Toronto today we have something really special in store for you we're gonna have a look at the all-new karma Rivera [Music] all right let's get the elephant out of the room with the Karma first and foremost about half of my viewers are probably thinking than me right now this is not a new car at all this is a Fisker Karma and the other half are going oh my god it's back the Fisker Karma what we actually have here is the all-new karma Rivero so the sheet metal says mr. Karma but underneath it's actually almost entirely new this is the result of the company being purchased by a new owner a new manufacturing facility being built in Southern California and years of reengineering the product having said that the new CEO said himself we would be crazy to get rid of the beautiful looks and it is absolutely beautiful those just gorgeous haunches on the front of the car very reminiscent of Aston Martin as Henrik Fisker designed the db9 and the Vantage or most of it as the story goes we also have these new style of wheels these are 22 inch massive wheels and this particular one is a sort of dark onyx finish that's called the dune twist very very nice added touch the door handles on this car very different than most they respond not to a pull but rather a pinch to open the doors which is very neat they also have these gorgeous frameless flats on the side of the car which really adds the vehicle sort of four-door coupe a poured proportions around the rear of the car things start to get interesting and a bit complicated you notice here we have what resembles a gas cap because it is a gas cap and then on the flip side of the vehicle we have this also looks like a gas cap but in reality this is your evey charging port this allows us to charge the car in as little as 20 minutes thanks to the new rapid charging technology part of the re-engineering of the Karma Rivero another couple things that are worth note when you look at the vehicle from the rear it's very very wide and when you look down you almost have sort of expect me to see exhaust in reality this is a synthesizer sort of like something you'd hear it in dance festival but what it does is it actually plays music or a tone that other people can hear while the vehicle is travelling under 50 kilometers an hour a pedestrian warning system because the car is so quiet all electric cars are but this one especially so the interior has also had a lot of work that's gone into it originally when the fisker karma is were being sold in filth they had these very sort of eco mentalist interiors that were kind of finicky when they redesign and retool the karma Rivera to deed a beautiful car that it is they approached the absolute best leather mill in the world bridge of we're the same suppliers of Aston Martin and also rolls-royce motor cars and they said make us the leathers that you put inside of rural Royce's and that is what's actually finished on the inside of the new rivero it is exquisite definitely feels more expensive than some other vehicles in this class and in fact we have to sort of ask the question what is this class this is an entirely new thing for the electric car market because Tesla is all about satisfying the masses it's about making a vehicle for everyone this is about being exclusive and making for just a subtle few let's talk about how karma Rivero works because though it is a beautiful slinky 4-door sedan in reality it shares more with something like a BMW i8 in its drivetrain than an actual Tesla so here's how it works just like the i8 vehicle has an onboard generator and this generator can come on to recharge our battery pack and give the vehicle infinite range if required however at any given point when you're driving inside of the car the actual vehicle is powered by its AV system and this means the car at any given point will have 771 pound-feet of torque great acceleration and he here no lag and torque the car actually only requires a single speed transmission because of that similar to Tesla so when you're driving inside of the vehicle you've got that smooth easy but if you want to go for a extended period of range you can put the vehicle into what we call sustain mode sustain the mode will turn on the generator when appropriate to keep the battery topped up and it actually produces just enough energy to give it more than a top-up but actually recharge so as an example if I was going to start driving this car from here and end in Montreal the distance between the two in sustain mode would be enough for me to charge the battery fully so that when I get to Montreal I have a full charge to drive around town the other thing is this vehicle now supports the most advanced rapid charging technology which means we can wrap to charge the vehicle in as little as 20 minutes from complete bone-dry but remember most evie people who drive these vehicles don't leave their vehicles at bone-dry they leave in 10 20 maybe 30 percent which means that for most people you'll be able to wrap a charge this car in as little as 12 13 minutes which is really really incredible but it also supports the regular home chargers that a lot of our customers already have installed at their homes and that would allow a charge in two maybe three hours it even supports a regular 12-volt outlet if you want to plug it in and just leave it overnight for a full 12 hour charge and when you drive it with the generator and also the ez pack it is a combined range of 550 kilometers which means you can finally drive right across North America without stopping if you wanted to all right starting off with the key key on the car more there is very different than any other key I've ever seen its massive and in this particular case we've got it in this nice with a leather pouch that matches the interior of the car now the reason it's so large is because this stores a lot of information on it it actually stores more than an average key in an average car it remembers an entire user profile so when I hop inside of the vehicle it remembers everything from my call logs and my favourites on my phone to my seating preferences and my driving preferences the way the car is actually programmed to operate steering inputs throttle inputs everything is stored directly onto my key so this is kind of like memory profile 2.0 when I hop inside of the car in fact even earlier not when i unlock the vehicle it automatically sends the information to the quad-core CPU inside of the car which then gets everything to right where I last had it that's a neat touch I think more brands should adapt that now on the inside of this car we have to paddle shifters which is a very interesting thing you think of the fact that this car only has a single speed to the transmission this is not actually to control the transmission but to control the different drive modes and also the different regeneration modes for the battery so let's start with those drive modes when you're driving your car you have three different modes you can use the first of which is stealth so in stealth at no point does the onboard generator come on this is for clients who drive a lot in the city they can do pretty much a weekly or daily needs and routine without using the generator at all and in this mode you get just under 100 kilometers in total range for me I've been averaging about 80 kilometers when you pull the trigger once it puts it into a sustain mode when you're in sustained that's when the generator can come onboard to just top up the battery and allow you the extended range up to 550 kilometers when you pull it a third time it turns on and engages sport mode sport mode uses all of the power from the onboard generator to d-max the battery and in the automobile and when you're in this mode it'll actually produce in excess of 400 horsepower let's find an electric horse power and as you know electric horse power kind of a bit different than regular horse power they can put the power down quite a bit and in this mode you also have a 771 pound-feet of torque from literally I guess there's no rpm it's a zero right off the line which is really tremendous on the flip side you have your brake regen so when you pull this trigger when you're in Drive you can cycle between one a different three drive mode for your regeneration in the most extreme mode when you let off of the vehicle's brake it almost feels like the car so I grabbed the accelerator it feels like the car brakes by itself allowing for you to one save on brake pads and to sustain as much electricity in the battery pack as possible now talking about the battery pack batteries while boarding and sin as design goes that's usually why they hide them at the very very bottom of vehicles but in rivero they've actually used it and accented it to make a beautiful design component this centerpiece here that runs the whole way through the inside of the car actually is the battery pack and you see it has LED illumination behind this sort of crystallized laughs that you can look right into very very neat it also uses this neat little drive selector here which we can place between different modes and glows with you put them between it very very novel if I'm honest next we have our navigation module so this is powered by a quad-core CPU and key its software updatable over-the-air this is a smart car not a smart car as you probably think but a smart intelligent vehicle so every 90 days karma sends to the vehicle a software update it can do everything from while the most recent one add an apple carplay and android auto so I don't even Phoebe you just interface it's very very neat stuff but the thing I really like it is this display when you're inside of it it'll show everything that's going on with the vehicle at any given point that includes the battery output it includes the power to amuse and it also includes any power from the Sun that we're collecting to regenerate the battery packs on the car because you remember this car also has solar panels on the roof very novel so we're touching earlier on the electric panels the roof I want to dive a bit more into detail about that because it is very unique to the Karma and frankly speaking not anyone else has sort of gone into this now with the most recent generation the common Rivero these electric cells actually power the main battery pack so I mean in Canada where we don't have a lot of Sun but we have a fair amount of Sun this will actually add about a thousand kilometres to your range for the entire year which is really neat I like that edition and it makes me think when I park it at the airport I'd like it to be outside now versus in an underground garage that craftsmanship we're talking about on the inside also translates the outside these unique and new badges that we feature on rivero are actually hand-painted every single one by a Hawaiian artisan so it's neat because on this particular vehicle the front badge and rear badge actually look totally different they have the same pattern but the smudge marks that are used to sort of resemble the solar eclipses they're actually in different places and that craftsmanship that attention to detail is not something we've ever seen on an electric car before and I think that also adds the vehicle's uniqueness and exclusivity I actually think this is probably one of my favorite badges I've recently seen on an automobile it very really stands out you got to admit so there you guys have it the new karma Rivero very different than the rest of the electric car market and it shares that beautiful sleek and sexy lines that the original vehicle had while making so many things a lot better experience there's a lot to go over on this car and in such a short video we really just touched the tip of the iceberg so I'm gonna ask you guys what you think of the vehicle do you want to see us do a drive of it do you have any questions about Karma any comments feel free to drop them into the comment section below I can't wait to hear what you guys have to say about the vehicle and maybe we'll see us driving one in the future until then though we'll see you guys on the next one [Music] the bold and refreshing taste of Nespresso and my commenters who periodically like to comment about things that involve stuff I would like to say that you can trust me from time to time as I do wear socks

Channel: Alek Ackerman

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Length: 13min 35sec (815 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 16 2018