Perfect timing Ben. There are lots of used Ariya's available in my area. I bought your exact trim with 17k miles for 21k just last week. yeps lots of depreciation. Tesla Bjorn Nyland.
@@tkmedia3866 yep this one was just recently purchased used as well. It was leased for a year to a Nissan employee in the Nashville area and only had ~7000 miles when we bought it. Didn't get quite as good a deal. Still ~50% depreciation is bad for the first owner but great for buying second hand. Thanks for watching.
I bought a 23 Premiere trim in Feb 23 to hold me over until I took delivery of my Platinum trim in June of 23. Outside of software, I couldn't disagree with you more. The charging port is in the perfect location for Tesla Superchargers AND on street parking. The fact that lower trims don't get turn signals on the mirrors is inexcusable. Worse yet, why don't we still have the ability to set a charge limit? Good work, Ben!
Yeah I didn't think of on-street parking/charging since that's not super common in most of the US. Still waiting on Nissan to get supercharger access; I have a NACS adapter already and have used it with my Bolt EUV. And I should have mentioned the lack of a charge limit - that's another glaring omission. Thanks for watching.
Cool video and relevant content. I always enjoy actual owner's thoughts vs reviewers. I think it is good to lead with the bad and then qualify that overall good, like you did. I find when I buy a car, I become quite subjectively protective of my purchase so pushing myself to find things I would like to change is a challenge for me but helpful to others. Great job. Thx for the video. I enjoyed watching.
@@thenetworkarchitectchannel thanks Walter! Yes there’s a lot to like about the Ariya, so I will definitely have some good things to say in a future video
I just noticed the Ariya gets confused on speed limits in California as many places here have two different speeds one for regular passenger car another for towing and big rigs.
Can you set charge limits in the Ariya? That can be an option to stop a session, albeit clunky. Same in our '22 Ioniq 5, it has a button to stop charging in the app but no direct in-car option.
That charger port location is a head-scratcher. I wonder if it's because in Japan the steering wheel is on the right so the port is on the driver's side, and they just didn't fix it for the left-hand drive market. But in the UK sidewalk-adjacent parking for charging from a lamp post is becoming a thing, so port on the left, sidewalk side, would make sense. My Chevy Bolt has it on the left, very convenient for our house as our side-driveway is on the right of the house as viewed from the street, so we drive in forwards, plug in from an outside socket, and it would be hard to miss that the car is plugged in when approaching the driver's door.
@@ziploc2000 it's all over the place. In Japan, I believe the car has CHAdeMO, along with J1772. But the ports are each on their own side! Thanks for watching.
One weird missing feature in the Ariya is you cannot set a charge limit, whether on AC or DC charging. So they just added the "Nissan Energy Charging Network" within the MyNissan app. It's basically access to ChargePoint, EVGo, and Electrify America thru one account. *If* the app works correctly (and it hasn't yet), you should be able to stop the charge from one of those networks using the app. But I've tried it twice, and both time the app gave an error message, but the station successfully started charging. Since the app didn't realize it was successful, it didn't give the option to end charging.
@@richcohen8341 excellent question. So for whatever reason, the Ariya is classified in the US as a passenger car. Per federal regulations, only light trucks/MPVs are allowed to have dark tinted windows from the factory. Most crossovers are considered light trucks, but this one isn't. I don't know if it was a decision made by Nissan or NHTSA, but that's why. Our Bolt EUV is the same, despite literally having "utility vehicle" in it's name.
Perfect timing Ben. There are lots of used Ariya's available in my area. I bought your exact trim with 17k miles for 21k just last week. yeps lots of depreciation. Tesla Bjorn Nyland.
@@tkmedia3866 yep this one was just recently purchased used as well. It was leased for a year to a Nissan employee in the Nashville area and only had ~7000 miles when we bought it. Didn't get quite as good a deal. Still ~50% depreciation is bad for the first owner but great for buying second hand. Thanks for watching.
I bought a 23 Premiere trim in Feb 23 to hold me over until I took delivery of my Platinum trim in June of 23. Outside of software, I couldn't disagree with you more. The charging port is in the perfect location for Tesla Superchargers AND on street parking. The fact that lower trims don't get turn signals on the mirrors is inexcusable. Worse yet, why don't we still have the ability to set a charge limit?
Good work, Ben!
Yeah I didn't think of on-street parking/charging since that's not super common in most of the US. Still waiting on Nissan to get supercharger access; I have a NACS adapter already and have used it with my Bolt EUV.
And I should have mentioned the lack of a charge limit - that's another glaring omission. Thanks for watching.
@@BensEcoAdvntr do you have Northern Lights? I WISH that colorway was available for the Platinum trims. That paint job is amazing!
@StubbyStan28 yep that's it! Sometimes green, sometimes, purple, sometimes, brown, sometimes black. It's wild
Cool video and relevant content. I always enjoy actual owner's thoughts vs reviewers. I think it is good to lead with the bad and then qualify that overall good, like you did. I find when I buy a car, I become quite subjectively protective of my purchase so pushing myself to find things I would like to change is a challenge for me but helpful to others. Great job. Thx for the video. I enjoyed watching.
@@thenetworkarchitectchannel thanks Walter! Yes there’s a lot to like about the Ariya, so I will definitely have some good things to say in a future video
I just noticed the Ariya gets confused on speed limits in California as many places here have two different speeds one for regular passenger car another for towing and big rigs.
@@tkmedia3866 also it sees school zones regardless of whether there are students present. A good idea, but not fully developed
I bought a leather cover for my key fob on Etsy, and so the key fob feels much nicer now. I have an Ioniq6.
That's a great idea, thanks Diane!
Can you set charge limits in the Ariya? That can be an option to stop a session, albeit clunky. Same in our '22 Ioniq 5, it has a button to stop charging in the app but no direct in-car option.
@@SteveBirkett sadly no, that's another glaring issue with the software.
I can’t believe it. charge level is not available. Feels like a pre 2020 ev with this omitted.
That charger port location is a head-scratcher. I wonder if it's because in Japan the steering wheel is on the right so the port is on the driver's side, and they just didn't fix it for the left-hand drive market.
But in the UK sidewalk-adjacent parking for charging from a lamp post is becoming a thing, so port on the left, sidewalk side, would make sense.
My Chevy Bolt has it on the left, very convenient for our house as our side-driveway is on the right of the house as viewed from the street, so we drive in forwards, plug in from an outside socket, and it would be hard to miss that the car is plugged in when approaching the driver's door.
for the Ariya, both right hand drive and left hand drive market cars are all on the passenger side. so 4 different fenders wings are produced.
@@ziploc2000 it's all over the place. In Japan, I believe the car has CHAdeMO, along with J1772. But the ports are each on their own side! Thanks for watching.
@@BensEcoAdvntr huh didnt know that about the jpn Aryia model. The chademo /J1772 is also why jpn EVs tend to have larger chargeport doors.
Your car is in low version of Ariya.... take the higher one and you have all the features you want and dont keep moaning. Changed it....by the way.
Can't you pre-set the car to charge only to 80%? Can you stop charging from your Nissan app?
One weird missing feature in the Ariya is you cannot set a charge limit, whether on AC or DC charging.
So they just added the "Nissan Energy Charging Network" within the MyNissan app. It's basically access to ChargePoint, EVGo, and Electrify America thru one account. *If* the app works correctly (and it hasn't yet), you should be able to stop the charge from one of those networks using the app. But I've tried it twice, and both time the app gave an error message, but the station successfully started charging. Since the app didn't realize it was successful, it didn't give the option to end charging.
Did you get the dealer software update yet?
@@tkmedia3866 scheduled for next week!
@@BensEcoAdvntrhopefully there will be a update soon. As just about all modern EVs need an update to the updater to update. 😅
Why no privacy glass on the rear windows?
@@richcohen8341 excellent question. So for whatever reason, the Ariya is classified in the US as a passenger car. Per federal regulations, only light trucks/MPVs are allowed to have dark tinted windows from the factory. Most crossovers are considered light trucks, but this one isn't. I don't know if it was a decision made by Nissan or NHTSA, but that's why.
Our Bolt EUV is the same, despite literally having "utility vehicle" in it's name.
Bjorn Nyland
@@SueC56 thank you!