Nissan Ariya to be announced for the JDM July 15, 2020

[DougWantsALeaf]

The Chicagoland Ariya supply (and Leaf supply) has certainly been whittled down. Only a handful left of both down from 60 a few weeks ago.

[cwerdna]

A guy at work (I don't know him well as I don't work with him) PMed about the crazy supply of Ariyas in the Bay Area on Autotrader.

I just checked (for kicks) and picked a Bay Area zip (not mine). https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sal ... uestId=NEW shows supposedly 163 new ones within 50 miles of that zip code (where Google's HQ is).

[DougWantsALeaf]

Watching the Ariya range/efficiency drives from Bjorn make me think that it only barely outranges the Leaf with the big battery.

Anyone with an Ariya experiencing anything different?

[DougWantsALeaf]

Interesting that the Europe Ariya gets 22kW AC charging vs. 6.6 here. I do think 3 phase AC charging would be quite handy as a fail safe for faulty DC stations.

https://youtu.be/egVP47z1ZCw

[frontrangeleaf]

We drove one some time ago. Frankly not that compelling.

First of all, it's just too damn big. Power was just OK. And way too much money for what it is.

Not a good fit for us. Best of luck to them. I'm sure there's others would prefer that size vehicle.

[cwerdna]

I've been seeing ads on TV for them, sometimes multiple ads for the car within the same show.

I did see one on the road in the wild within the past 2 weeks or so. I can't say that I've had that many sightings, maybe one to three before this.

[goldbrick]

I've seen one or two on the streets of Boulder and about 20 in the lot at the local Nissan dealership. Ouch.

[LeftieBiker]

Leave it to Nissan to build a Crossover (a generally Hot segment of the market) that manages to appeal to almost no one...