After an extended interval of quiet, 2022 guarantees to be a 12 months full of exercise on the Nissan entrance, as a result of it isn’t simply the Kicks B-segment crossover that was teased in Edaran Tan Chong Motor’s (ETCM) current Chinese language New Yr greeting video – the approaching 12 months can also see the Nissan Ariya all-electric SUV making its means right here.
The entrance finish of the EV is proven on the ending of the video, suggesting that the mannequin is on the playing cards for introduction someday this 12 months. That the Ariya is slated for the market isn’t stunning – in 2020, there had been unofficial intimation that there have been plans to convey the automotive in, though pricing remained some extent that wanted to be labored on.
That it’s now being hinted at broadly implies that these challenges have been largely overcome, very seemingly as a result of tax breaks for EVs introduced by the federal government, which might now make it aggressive. Pricing for traditional fashions in Japan begin at roughly 5 million yen (RM183,000), after accessible authorities subsidies, so this supplies a great indicator of how native pricing might form up.
The Ariya is the automaker’s first mass-market fully-electric mannequin because the Leaf, and can go on sale in 4 variant types, in 63 kWh and 87 kWh battery capacities, every in both front- or all-wheel drive guise.
With the 63 kWh pack, the single-motor variant makes 160 kW (215 hp) and 300 Nm of torque and delivers an estimated vary of as much as 450 km (WLTP cycle), with a 0-100 km/h dash time of seven.5 seconds. The motor is boosted to 178 kW (239 hp) with the 87 kWh battery, however due to the extra weight incurred, it’s barely slower to get to 100 km/h at 7.6 seconds. At 610 km, its vary is the very best within the Ariya line-up.
As for the two-motor e-4ORCE AWD fashions, the 63 kWh mannequin makes 250 kW (335 hp) and 560 Nm, reaches 100 km/h in 5.6 seconds and has an working vary of as much as 430 km. The 87 kWh AWD mannequin has 290 kW (388 hp) and 600 Nm, does the identical dash in 5.1 seconds and might journey as much as 580 km on a single cost. In Japan, charging the Ariya through a 130 kW CHAdeMO quick charger supplies 375 km of extra vary in simply half-hour.
The Ariya hasn’t made its means into the market but – it was initially set to be launched domestically in mid-2021, however the impression of Covid-19 and the semiconductor scarcity has pushed again quantity manufacturing to this 12 months.
