On September 8, 2009
Big Green Claims for the Fisker Karma Supercar
The Fisker Karma will be at the Frankfurt Motor Show next week, and the Irvine, California-based company is claiming very strong green credentials for its ultra-fast (zero to 62 in six seconds) plug-in hybrid supercar. Using Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) calculators, Fisker says it gets 67.2 mpg. This is far from a number to take to the bank, since there’s no settled way of calculating mpg for plug-in hybrids, and the EPA hasn’t rated the Karma. The company thinks it will eventually get EPA rated at better than 100 mpg. The company also claims that the Karma produces just 83 grams of carbon dioxide (the principal global warming gas) per kilometer, “less than that of today’s cleanest production cars…
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