EV maker Karma Automotive comes back around with good news, unveiling its all-new Amaris, a 2-door coupe featuring the company’s next-gen extended range powertrain. More good from Karma? Yup. Its recently introduced Gyesera 4-door will also hit the market as an EREV.
Karma Automotive unveiled its latest offering, the Amaris EREV Performance Coupe. It’s set to arrive in fall of next year.
The newest model follows in the footsteps of the Kaveya super coupe revealed last fall. While it’s not quite on par with the Kaveya, which sprints from stop to 60 mph in just 2.9 seconds and boasts a top speed of 180 mph, the Amaris is a pretty impressive machine.
It features a more powerful evolution of Karma’s EREV powertrain using a larger, turbocharged 4-cylinder ICE generator. The result is a zero-to-60 time estimated to be less than 3.5 seconds and a top speed of 165mph.
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Left out of the specs? Range. However, production is slated to begin in the fourth quarter of next year, Karma officials noted. The company didn’t just settle on making Amaris the only vehicle with the new EREV powertrain. The previously announced Gyesera 4-door will now be outfitted with it as well.
The 2-door Amaris coupe is estimated to race from zero to 60 mph in just under 3.5 seconds.
The Gyesera, which was introduced about this time last, hits U.S. roads later this year, after originally being projected to arrive in Q4 2024, according to Karma officials. Even as a touring sedan, it’s spits out 590 hp and races to 60 mph in an estimated 4.2 seconds.
Officials noted the Gyesera will replace the existing 4-door, the Revero.
“Karma Automotive remains at the forefront of EREV powertrains, and believes now more than ever that the freedom of refueling either with gasoline or electricity is ideally suited to the marketplace,” said Marques McCammon, president, Karma Automotive in a statement.
“With our gorgeous Amaris 2-door coupe and soon-to-be-revealed Gyesera 4-door, we’re building a range of vehicles that will deliver exceptional EV torque and performance paired with worry-free cruising range, a combination that only EREV can deliver.”
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The Amaris continues the low-slung, slippery look that Karma calls its “Comet Line” design language. It rides on an all-aluminum spaceframe, which saves some weight, and allows for the “this goes fast” look.
After being named Karma’s president in 2023, Marques McCammon immediately shifted the company’s focus to all-electric vehicles.
The look, which borrows some from the Kaveya, features a simple clam shell-style hood that sweeps back toward sides to a Kaveya-inspired sculpted cowl. All of this highlights 22-inch Constellation wheels that contribute to the controlled aggression styling.
The cowl rises more than halfway up the door frame, allowing for a sweep back to the widened rear track, accenting its high-performance capabilities. Going back to the hood, it incorporates Karma’s Target Lighting signature, which creates a seamless transition to the front fenders.
The back of the Amaris features a long, low-angled window with an aero pass-through spoiler that reduces aerodynamic drag while creating rear axle downforce for increased stability at high speeds, the design team notes.
Plus, it gets an “Americana-inspired” side exhaust to signal performance and capability as well as allowing for the exhaust from the 4-cylinder generator to go.
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The Kaveya has a range of more than 250 miles, a top speed of 180 mph, and a 0-60 time under 3 seconds.
The company’s been pushing a lineup that’s all on the horizon, except for the third-generation Revero hybrid that currently prowls the roads. Sales of the performance-tuned Karma Invictus will begin in Q2 2025, followed by the Gyesera EREV four-seater in Q4 2025, and the Amaris coupe in Q4 2026, officials said.
The Karma Kaveya super-coupe, with up to 1,000 hp and butterfly-doors, will arrive in 2027, and the Karma Ivara GT-UV will arrive in 2028: both EVs will incorporate SDVA (Software-Defined Vehicle Architecture) developed in collaboration with Intel Automotive.
While it’s based in Irvine, California, the automaker’s claim to becoming “the first American ultra-luxury automaker” since the Great Depression may be a stretch. It was purchased in February 2014 by the Chinese after Henrik Fisker’s original Fisker Automotive went into Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
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