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The Fisker Karma is a plug-in hybrid car that
seems to have everything the rich and famous — and environmentally
correct — look for in a set of wheels. Sleek silhouette? Check. Green
cred? Check. Six-figure price tag? Check.
Reliable battery? Not so fast.
In a test conducted Wednesday by Consumer Reports magazine, the
niche-market $107,850 sports car conked out completely, after a short
ride at 65 miles per hour on a Connecticut test track.
“Our Fisker Karma … is super sleek, high-tech — and now it’s broken,”
Consumer Reports wrote on its website late Thursday.
“We have owned our car for just a few days; it has less than 200 miles
on its odometer … We buy about 80 cars a year and this is the first
time in memory that we have had a car that is undriveable before it has
finished our check-in process.”
A Consumer Reports video shows a flatbed truck, sent by the Fisker
dealer who sold the car, preparing to tow it away.[story]
"James May Drives Hydrogen Powered Car,"
now showing in Header Theater may be of
interest.
In the meanwhile Obama is promising to
give $10,000 of your money to any asshat who buys a Chevy
ReVOLTing. In the same breath that staggeringly stupid
sumbitch is still
lobbying against the Keystone pipeline.
Okay, I was wrong to use "stupid."
Evil,
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ReplyDeleteCasca
What about calling O'Bummer a Sonofabitch?
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Nothing greener than a car that won't even run.
ReplyDeleteNot to Mention that Gummint Motors has just "invested" $400M of your money in junk bond issuer Peugeot.
ReplyDeleteGive me a 1973 Chevy Caprice Classic instead.
ReplyDelete"James May Drives Hydrogen Powered Car," Right. Just wait until the environmental cases start wailing about rising sea levels because of all the extra water created by these things.
ReplyDeleteGrinfilledCelt
Chuck, I saw one of those the other day! 37 feet long by actual eyeball measurement. USA! UAS! USA!
ReplyDeleteSir H the Comet
Karma really IS a bitch, isn't it...
ReplyDeleteWell one of the problems they discovered in the past for a fuel cell powered car was the performance of the fuel cell dropped off significantly the colder it got. The other problem is if you have a wreck you can get an explosive situation. Hydrogen is a tricky gas. It is going to be interesting to see if they can overcome the technical snags and produce enough fuel cells to get the price to a reasonable level. One thing is the military is pushing for more fuel cell use so that might help.
ReplyDeleteTwo years ago a buddy and I went on a big tour of the Michigan/Indiana/Illinois car museums. We saw a LOT of electric cars; there were a LOT of them made 1900-1925 and the funny thing we noticed reading the placards: They got EXACTLY the same (or better) performance than the new high-tech electric cars now. A Detroit Electric car was, in fact, advertised to get 80 miles on a charge and one of them did a 213 endurance run.
ReplyDeleteWasn't Fisker given $500,000,000+ in 0bama stimulus loan guarantees to build this thing? More money well spent.
ReplyDeleteAnd GM has not halted production of the Volt--they're simply retooling. I heard they're going to add solar panels to the top of the car and remarket it as the Solyndra.