The 2027 Karma Gyesera makes 566 horsepower, hits 60 mph in a claimed 3.7 seconds, and carries a lineage that stretches back to 2011. Karma Automotive calls it the start of a new era. The car itself tells a longer story.
This is the latest version of the plug-in hybrid sedan that first appeared as the Fisker Karma. That car became the Revero, and now the Gyesera replaces the Revero outright.
The shape will look familiar to anyone who has watched this car change hands and names over the past decade and a half. Long hood, curvy body, and the same dramatic proportions that made the original stop traffic.
Underneath sits an updated version of the Revero’s aluminum spaceframe chassis. This is not a clean sheet, just a refinement of what was already there.
The body mixes aluminum and carbon fiber, which keeps curb weight to just over 5,000 pounds. For a sedan this long, that counts as restraint. It is still a heavy car by any honest measure.
The real work happened in the powertrain. The Gyesera runs the fifth generation of Karma’s plug-in hybrid system, and it remains a series hybrid at heart.
A turbocharged BMW three-cylinder never drives the wheels. It works purely as a generator, keeping a 28-kWh battery topped up. That battery feeds a pair of electric motors on the rear axle.
Output lands at 566 horsepower and 594 pound-feet of torque. That is 30 more horsepower and 44 more pound-feet than the Revero made. Call it a step, not a leap.
Karma quotes 3.7 seconds to 60 mph and a 150-mph top speed. Those are respectable numbers for a four-door that weighs more than two and a half tons.
Range is where the series-hybrid layout earns its keep. Karma says the battery alone covers 80 miles, and total range stretches to 360 miles once the engine kicks in.
Eighty electric miles handles most commutes with room to spare. The three-cylinder is there so the longer trip home never turns into a problem.
That formula has barely changed since day one. The original pitch was a beautiful, long sedan that runs on electricity most of the time and burns gas only when it has to. The Gyesera makes the same pitch with better hardware.
Five generations of the same hybrid system show real persistence, and so does a chassis carried forward rather than replaced. Karma has kept refining one idea while much of the industry lurched between going all-electric and backing off.
The name is new, and so is the badge on the trunk. The revised design and updated powertrain are genuine improvements over the Revero.
But the bones, the silhouette, and the engineering philosophy trace a straight line back to a car that debuted fifteen years ago. Karma is betting that line still leads somewhere buyers want to go.
The timing may finally favor it. As automakers rethink how quickly drivers will give up gasoline, a range-extended luxury sedan with 80 miles of electric driving looks a lot smarter in 2026 than it did in 2011.
Karma calls this a new era. The Gyesera is the first test of whether the market agrees.
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