Credit: Mark Phelan Detroit Free Press
As California electric-car maker Karma begins showcasing its elegant Revero sedan to dealers and customers, a morning drive showed the $130,000 car to be fully sorted out and ready for prime time.
Karma spent the last two and a half years resuscitating the bankrupt Fisker electric carmaker, bringing its manufacturing to the U.S. from Finland and updating the sleek car?s underpinnings.
The body, a sleek long-wheelbase vision styled by veteran luxury car designer Henrik Fisker when the company bore his name, is virtually unchanged from the 2,000 Fisker cars it sold before bankruptcy. The Revero seats four.
Pretty much everything you can?t see ? the battery, electronics and infotainment hardware ? is new,? company chief revenue and marketing officer Jim Taylor told me Thursday in Karma?s Troy engineering office. Credit: Mark Phelan Detroit Free Press

The result is a projected 50-mile range on a battery charge ? up about 50% from the pre-bankruptcy Fisker ? and another 200-odd miles when a 2.0L gasoline engine turns on to generate more electricity. The four-cylinder engine comes from General Motors, where Taylor had a long career that culminated in running Cadillac. A123 makes the lithium-ion battery in Romulus. Karma and A123 are both owned by Wanxiang Group, a large Chinese auto supplier.

The Revero has three driving modes: Stealth, for all-battery driving; Sustain, to engage the engine before the battery is drained, and Sport, which ...