The driving is where this car truly shines! The rest of the reviews, may not be so positive, but time will tell. Also, please keep in mind this is my very first experience in the car - I shoot these videos to bring you along for my initial impressions - more detailed videos to come with all of the nerdy info you’re looking for soon. ⚡️

Finally I received my e-4orce platinum 2 weeks ago. I don't drive faster than 65mph. I am getting 320 miles on full charge. Extremely happy. Wonderful job Nissan.

GREAT to see Alyssa again. We have all missed her and hope to see more of her in the future.

I ended up buying an Ariya to replace my 2019 Model 3 and I really like it a lot. I don't disagree with your criticisms of where the Ariya falls short at least from a specs perspective. However, since I exclusively commute in my car and we drive my wife's 3-row SUV on trips, these down sides don't really figure in for me. The Ariya makes for a much more relaxing commute than my old Model 3, which accounts for most of my drive time. Plus, I got a $3750 rebate for financing through Nissan with a 2.99% APR for 36 months which is quite good these days. So that helped negate some of the cost concerns. For me it gives me 90% of the luxury experience with none of the excess baggage that a luxury marque brings with it.

I’m a bit shocked on how harsh you all were on the interior and seems to be an overall lack of objectivity... because Nissan. All major touch points are soft touch materials, and in the top trim you get nappa leather and suede matrials, even suede on the pillars between the doors. I watched the review on the detail channel and was confused at the things that were called cheap. All the other reviews I've watched mention that the cabin is actually a highlight of Ariya and reads more premium than the competition. Overall the Ariya in a solid effort that has been marred by a botched launch that for the most part Nissan didn't have control over. I'm sure there were a few "damn can we catch a break" moments between the pandemic and shutdowns to the semiconductor shortage... THEN the tax credit getting pulled when they were finally able to get it to market. Everyone is complianing about the charge numbers when 85% of the time people are driving around town and in most cases you'll have a charger at home and charge over night. I also thought the numbers sucked, but recently saw a video of someone with a plug-in hybrid that had ~40 miles of range and the gas engine hadn't come on for an entire week with simply pluging it in at night. Even if you have a daily commute of 50-60 miles, with a big battery pack EV you wouldn't even need to plug in every night. Charge speeds are kinda like the new 0-60... its important but not as many make it out to be. It only becomes a problem when doing long roadtrips and thats a low point for EVs in general. 350W charging speed means nothing if you never see it and with such a crappy charging infrastructure overall. I'd take a solid charging curve that prioritizes battery longevity than outright speed.

Hi Alyssa!

I thought this was going to be an April fool's joke with Kyle taking the Ariya off road. 🤣

you bashed and claimed Ariya as pathetic charging vs Tesla charging speed. I tested it and found out Ariya with most smooth and consistent charging curve (around 115 - 120kwh ) which no other EV matched including Tesla 3, ID5, Volvo, BMW, Tesla start very high in charge rate like 150+ but drastically fall down (except Audi Eton which is more fast). in the end the total charging curve I found Ariya charging more fast than Model 3 (10-90%).

I'm going to miss Alissa most of all. Considering the way Kyle spoke to her (and spoke down to her) at times, I think she'll be okay.

The top spec at $60k+ definitely is a hard sell for this car, but the mid tier ones around $45-55K compete quite well with ID4, Q4, and the Hyundai/Kia stuff

Nice to see Alyssa again!

I just test drove this car some days ago on the interstate out in San Bernadino, California and it was by far the best experience I've head against the EV6 and the Model Y. The heads-up display showing things like the speed on the windsheld during nights makes for a very futuristic sense of vision!

For $63k, I'd buy a Lyriq or a Model Y

Everyone must consider that this particular review is for the top tier Platinum + AWD trim. The Platinum + Ariya feature for feature considerably overmatches the Tesla M Y long range or VW ID.4 Pro trims. A better example of an Ariya AWD trim is to compare an Evolve + AWD trim to the MY long range and I’d.4 Pro S plus. (The driving dynamics less pro pilot 2.0 would be identical). Last I checked the current price of a well equipped MY long range that wasn’t white is in the $55K range and VW ID.4 Pro plus with the large battery is priced around $55K as well. That said you can currently buy an Ariya AWD Evolve + for $56K and it offers a sunroof that actually opens, HUD, a surround view positioning camera, 4 wheel disk brakes, and a Heat Pump that the ID.4 AWD doesn’t offer. The only real disadvantage the Ariya has in the US right now when comparing price in this segment is that it no longer qualifies for a federal tax credit due to recent legislation. But as stated in this video a lease option may possibly be a way to address that issue.

USB A is a great option and is still very commonly used. In fact, I don't understand why other car manufacturers think everyone has trashed their USB-A to USB-C cables and think of putting in USB-C plugs only.

Just wow. Great review guys. This helps me a lot to inform people around me that are less at ease with electrification. Continue the incredible work.

Max charging rate of 130kW is only part of the story: Bjorn found that the 87kWh Ariya was still pulling 81kW at 80% SOC! Ariya’s flat charging curve (like E-tron’s) makes it a potentially better road-tripper than the modest max charge rate would suggest.

I sometimes don't understand the "nerdy" tech of the reviews but after awhile I appreciate the info that you guys put out. THANKS and keep up the good work!

I disagree on the charge speeds. If it saved money and put this closer to 35k, they could’ve used a 24a charger since you’re pretty unlikely to find or want to install a 40a home circuit for ev charging. So size it for a 30a circuit or go higher to 40a for 50a circuit. However, 60 and 80a are beyond overkill and borderline useless. 80a is the full breaker panel for some people. Sure, for suppling power there may be an argument but 80a/19.2kWh ac is pretty silly. Even a 16a 240v charger can deliver about 100 miles of range over 8 hours.

Okay, the Ariya is a different beast. I have the Engage, and it's really quirky with e-step. The faster you remove your foot, the faster it gives you more regens. It clearly is not a Lucid Air or Tesla Plaid. It is just not built for that. It is designed for staying in a large city. It is designed to get you from point A to point B in a fun, sporty way. In the Eco mode, it can extend range by 100 miles. I can charge mine from 10% to 100% in 35 minutes. You can go ahead and charge it at home in about 5 hrs to prepare it for the morning. My car was 44k, and the Tesla Y, which had similar options, was 65K. Also, it will auto-change lanes in certain trims. Now with 10 trims, lol! Now, imagine what that beast will do when Nissan comes out with the performance model with a projected 200kWh battery and a 350kWh charging system. Nissan is smart. They have had the Leaf for years. Nissan moves slowly and methodically. Nissan has basically given up on super-fast hot rods. If you go 0-60 in 2 seconds, you can get a ticket for laying drag in my town. If you want more backseat room and headspace, get the Enguage, not the platinum, because of the roof, it takes up 3 inches. Also, the front-wheel drive has a bigger truck space.

Super review, love the detail and explanations.

Tesla’s price cuts have really kicked this car in the testicles

A hard pass on the Ariya. The Ionic 5/EV6 all wheel drive has it beat in all metrics. Loved my Leaf back in 2012-2015 but not looking to drive an dated Nissan.

I own the FWD Premiere edition & am waiting to take delivery on the Platinum+ spec. I completely disagree with Kyle's assessment of the AC charging. I've owned mine for 6 weeks and I've never had to wait for the AC charge to be completed. It was always exactly what I needed when I needed it. Personally, I think that Nissan has been ULTRA conservative with their battery management of the Ariya due to everything they've learned from the Leaf. I wouldn't be surprised if after a year Nissan ups the charging limits to 150 kW DCFC with basically the same charging curve once they're able to test how well the battery operates under load for long periods of time. I'll be very interested to see what Kyle's thoughts are on the charging after a few tests & living with it for a week.

Cancelling the blinker in the opposite direction is more intuitive. People who are transitioning to EVs will be far more likely to be familiar with this mode, which I’d imagine is what Nissan is going for.

Great to see Alyssa back in the videos and that she is still apart of the Out of Spec team. Relationships are hard enough and everything is enhanced when it’s in public under a spot light. ❤

I'm an owner of an Ariya FWD Premier since December 2022. I love the car, but I am not going defend it from what Kyle said about it. It is a good car, a competitive one, but nothing about it really stands out. The range is good, the efficiency is average, the charging capability is average, tech and safety features are on par with competitors, and it is in the same price range among the Mach E, Ioniq 5, EV6, ID.4 and Model Y. IMO, it is a good car and totally should be on anyone's shopping list for a cross-over EV. But I think the knock on the Ariya is that Nissan took 10 years to come up with a follow-on to the Leaf and they didn't come up with something that beats all competitors out of the water. I guess we wanted/expected Extraordinary, but we got a Good.

I was just watching Alyssa’s facial expression the whole time 😭

Excellent review thanks for taking me back to 2019.

Not canceling the turn signal in the same direction you turned it on is exactly like a tesla... its a negative here, but never heard kyle mention or care about that in a tesla, just saying. Just went outside to check my model 3.... up is to turn right, it cancels by pushing down. and down is to turn left, you cancel by pushing up. Exactly like this Ariya.

oh I forgot to mention for those perhaps put off by the wheel covers Nissan DOES offer a lightweight dedicated 5 spoke wheel option. I believe you have to order them through Nissan Parts because I don't think you can spec them on a vehicle (or maybe you can...?) if you remove the covers "hoping to strike gold", the alloy wheels underneath have unsightly mounting holes so are NOT necessarily an improvement, unless of course you're into "unsightly".

Nissan has a history of putting a WOT restriction until 40mph on their ICE vehicles. Removing that with tuning really wakes them up. Interesting they did it on this as well.

I've been looking forward to this video

I had my grandparents Cadillac Deville Concours for some time in high school. Had the front bench and of course my friends who sat in the front thought it was hilariously to slam the gas pedal since it was easily reachable

I test drove one, and out of all the ones I have driven before I place my order, this one has changed my mind and what I really think I’m placing the order on. I was blown away

I wouldn’t trade my Ariya for any of the new wave of cars, these other car makers rushed to market. Nissan has been making EVs that sold well for over a decade, I loved my Leaf. It was always rock solid. I’ve driven all the rest, hard pass.

Great Video Kyle

The second roof mounted fin is for the camera since this trim has the digital rearview mirror

Thought it was pretty funny that the entire time the team was talking about the soundproofing of the car, and it’s impressiveness, I was distracted by all the street noise of the passing traffic lol

Kyle says, “how do I cancel voice recognition?” Duh? How about talking to car & saying, “cancel voice recognition.”

My $0.02 on AC charging: I only have a 7.2 kW charger. I regularly travel over 100 mi in a day in my Ioniq 5 and have never once thought I could use more power than that. Hell, if I didn't care about leveraging time-of-use rates, a 3.6 kW charger wouldn't really get in my way. It may be weird in the state of the market for Nissan to only put a 7.2 kilowatt charger onboard the car, but I really think people put way too much emphasis on charging speeds at home. You're going to sleep for 8 hours anyway, and we all know L2 charging on the road just won't cut it for anybody.

I disagree with you about your AC charging rate of 30 amp being inadequate. For most people, they will be doing that overnight and generally will not be going from empty to full so it’s more than fine. For instance, on my model, Y I just charge usually at 16 A, with my average usage of about 150 miles over three or four days. So I can usually charge from 20% to 80% just using 16 amp charging although I could increase it to 32 A on my level two. Slower charge rates are better for battery life.

$63K for the loaded one? Dayum, the Ioniq 5/EV6 come fully loaded at almost $5K less, charge faster, have a better warranty, and are on par or better looking than this. Unless you need some of that 120 month 25% APR financing from Nissan I'd just go with a Korean offering.

The acoustic laminate glass they installed really seems to help at keeping things quiet.

Value wise I’m glad I got a Bolt EUV premier with super cruise

Thanks for doing test I was thinking of just test driving it. But probably won’t seems like it is very vocal don’t like that noise. My Lexus hybrid is more quieter when it is running on the battery. Will you or have you test drive the Chevy blazer ? That was the one I was going to get but didn’t because they only offered 2 colors for the seating .

Can't wait to replace my Leaf one of these just have to wait about 5 years to afford it lol

That's a heck of a lag time getting this video up. Broke up with Alyssa a few weeks ago.

I've gotten so spoiled with having that lower trunk tub area and frunk, that this is disappointing to see on a newly designed vehicle. I use my Tesla for absolutely everything and loading the tub with groceries then the top part larger items. I'm doing home improvements and loading 400lb of bricks in the trunk and frunk to even out weight. Going out to dinner and keeping leftover food in the front, or items that need to be kept cold being separate from the cabin is needed. First world problem but once you have a great feature like these it's hard to go back.

Interesting video. Car looks great on the outside. The electric motor whine and road noise is some of the loudest that I’ve heard in your videos, very annoying. From an ICE perspective I don’t think I’ve ever had a turn signal where you would go up twice to turn right and to turn it off. I’ve always had to push it back to center to turn it off, unless it did do it and I was just going on mental habit.

I love the looks

In Europe the quality has been well received. I’m wondering if you guys get a lesser quality?

Hey at least it’s better than the bz4x/RZ, good first attempt?

On my 08 audi TT you cancel indicator opposite way, its normal

Kyle, could you post a table of EV models that do and do not have one pedal driving?

Are you gonna review the Lyriq?

I have no problem with USB A since persons like me do not buy the latest devices so my connections are older. I would not want to also have some type of adapter!

lower end models will be great Socer Mom cars, take kids to school, grocery shoping, Lowes & HD runs.

The leaf was such a legend people our hopefully this will be

Question? I heard you say something quickly about plastic parts scratching your leg. Can you please elaborate? I know the center console can be slid backwards and create more legroom. Does the plastic part on the floor where you can charge a phone with the wrap able wire scratch your thigh?

I like having USB A ports. So many cables that I have still use that. Also all my thumb drives are USB A if I do updates.

Regarding the brake pedal, friction brakes are actually engaged when eStep is engaged. Both motors are externally excited synchronous motors so there are no permanent magnets. This is a significant departure from LEAF which has full ePedal. The electromagnetic consumption required to emulate PM for a complete stop could be problematic.

Unless this car is wayyyyyyyy cheaper than the Model Y, this car has no chance to compete

Just bury Nissan now. I'm so saddened by their trajectory. The early 90s hurrah was what was needed here.

This must explain why I saw 2 Ariya’s available sitting on my local dealer’s lot. I don’t hate it. I just don’t find it worth the cost. If Hyundai can get a handle on their vehicle fire issue, I’d ideally like to try out a Tucson or Santa Fe hybrid. 10:55 while all of my devices are usb-c now, almost all of my cables are usb-a to usb-c. Sure I can buy new cables but it’s nice to have usb-a port options.

Is Nissan passing on the $7500 EV lease credit? If so, perhaps lease and early exercise of the purchase option is a possibility.

man thats a looker😍

In the U.K. we only have three choices. Advance 63kw fwd. evolve 87kw fwd. eforce 87kw awd. Evolve has 22kw a.c. Charger

In Europe the onboard charger is 3 phase 32A = 22 kW (Type2 connector) 🔋🔌👍

Think I shall keep my Model 3LR if you don't mind.

Alyssa is back!

Can you review the Cadillac lyriq

Might sell a fair number of these to those not planning to road trip much and want a Japanese car as well. 🙏 ❤❤❤

Tax credit isn’t a big deal. Nissan is giving equivalent rebates. Also the complaint about the turning on the car seat warmer, their is a little icon on the bottom left or right of the screen that turns it on. And that is on every screen option you press. Out the door price for me was 39k after rebates (I got 8k. Nissian customer, financing through nissian, and a dealer rebate). for the evolve + e4 force AWD.

On a road trip now with mine from los angeles to Houston. Loving it. What kyle and others fail to mention about DCFC is those cars with faster ones will degrade faster. Everyone is so worried about the fastest rate until they see their car won't last as long as they thought. Nissan was smart to put it at 130 kw max.

If the base could get this red paint it would be a maybe at $39,999 It looks nice.

My Kona does 77kw DC fast charging..... 150kw is fine, doesn't suck at all. Maybe you Americans road trip more than most. But in the UK I can basically drive from top to bottom before needing to charge. Don't mind a break at the end of a 300 mile trip. You have a special use case Kyle, I'd rather my battery lasts than has crazy fast charging.

I never had a car that was not able to open the rear hatch while car was “on” ,,,is it configurable ?

Great video although it would’ve been nice if we could’ve had another camera angle from Alyssa to see areas of the infotainment system not captured by the mounted cams. No one pedal driving & lack of tax credit sucks

I can not believe how expensive this car is. When it comes to the AWD the Ioniq 5/EV6 have it beat by a few thousand but you can’t get one of those in a decent timeframe,we know why you can get an Ariya much quicker. Nissan needs to address their pricing or be left in the dust.

Liquid cooling and 125kW CCS?! That’s a GIANT leap forward from 50kW ChAdeMo especially if it can hold that rate for 30 minutes!

12:59 Where in the hell are you seeing lease deals that good for the EQS?! lol

On the 135 kw DC fast charging max rate, I remember last year Nissan addressed it by saying they're taking an e-tron approach and aiming for a consistent , flat-as-possible curve. I don't know how true that is in practice, though.

It seems like there was quite a bit of engineering conflict going on with this design. The Ariya could have been something special, but instead, it's more like a Detroit-built EV where too many design teams were making too many conflicting decisions that negatively impact the final production variant.

I'm surprised that the US 87 kWh doesn't have 22 kWh AC charging the same as the UK models!

Alissa is back missed you in the videos you need your own out of spec channel 😊

I watched your latest video on this first (My friend bought one) and have to say if you can get a great lease deal why not. I'm tired of hearing about range and fast charging. An electric car purchase (lease), for us, would be a second car, a car to drive every day, not a car to drive on long road trips and such. We'll have an ICE vehicle for that. At the rate I drive on a daily basis this would probably be charged once every two weeks, at home.

With my Y tried out my new CCS adaptor, parked beside a Ariya, its so much bigger then my Y.

11:19 what happened to the stitching besides the seatbelt.

Very nice looking external, esp like the wheel covers. Too bad with that huge sub taking up a lot of space in the trunk. With no frunk and mini trunk space, they blew the function this car is targeted for which is touring and road trips.

I believe you already know this Kyle but you still can get the tax credit on this vehicle it just has to be through a lease not a purchase. Unless they have changed that recently?

What if I need a USB A?

Nissan removed the RED colour option from the Ariya. How did you get one?

Sotp? What does ”Stop” mean?

Poor storage, no back seat room, high price, slow charging, no one pedal driving and poor range considering battery size. Thanks for not sugar coating the review.

I would have preferred if this was their versa philosophy in crossover EV form.

If the 3 year delay was to add a liquid cooler battery system then it may have been worth it, but they lost their EV leader status with that delay.

Rofl, hey what do you think of this mass produced new electric car? "The stitching on the back passenger seat is coming apart, so not very good" Someone could have damaged that at the port, dealership, or reviewing it.... smfh

How do you get to be a product planner and not understand triplicate of choice?

hard disagree on USB-A, I don't have a single device that doesn't use it. I'd have to get all new cables.