Jalopnik: Fisker Karma Hybrid Sets Itself On Fire And Burns While Owner Gets Groceries

Kyle Fehr, a Jalopnik reader who witnessed the aftermath, says the owner seemed upset.

You don't say

 

I hope the owner bought hot dogs and burgers. At least he could get some use out of the car.

 

Won't the burnt coolant make the food taste bad?

 

I'm pretty sure hot dogs already have coolant in them for flavoring.

 

Let's retitled this.
" How to prove you are stupid"
A) do not run back in the store for a fire extinguisher
B) call the manufacturer and ask him what to do

This guy must have inherited is money because he sure didn't earn it with his smarts .

Jalopnic ain't much better.
First - they report the car set itself on fire
Next - They say they don't know the cause of the fire
Well? Which is it. ! !

 

lesson: don't park next to a Fisker

 

And if you do, don't forget to have the marshmallows ready.

 

From what little I've read about the Fisker Karma it's more or less a piece of crap. The company is dead in the water IMO. Tesla is doing this properly, seems to not release junk to market like Fisker has with this car. The Karma is expensive, its hybrid power plant seems poorly implemented (mileage on gas is laughable) and its reliability is terrible.

Perhaps a little more dev time to iron out the bugs would have been a good idea, but now it's building such a name for itself I doubt it can ever dig itself out from the bad PR it's gotten.

It's a shame the car exists frankly because with so few EV type offerings on the market one that is terrible brings a bad name to the rest. A decade later the Prius still suffers from lay people worried about replacement battery costs. This after a decade! And, more to the point, it never even was a real thing--the batteries have never sucked! How many people who even think about an EV car now will simply remember a link about "yet another one burning".