Wow! That last reviewer read my mind… Excellent, informative, no nonsense review and I appreciate your knowledge and experience. We have been driving two Hondas for decades; Accords, Civics, and recently the CRV and Fit. I traded the Fit for the Chevy Bolt EUV and we Love it But I want to trade the CRV Hybrid for something more to its size and the Ariya might be it. My test drive yesterday and your video might be the deciding factors. The Ariya is perfect. Solid, stable, quick, quiet and smooth as silk. Everything about an EV in a sleek, stylish frame. You answered so many questions; the battery warranty of 8 years and no history of fires. That fire thing scared us at first but I think GM solved it but it lingers a bit. We love modern but don’t want it to be too space shippy. I got used to one pedal driving quickly but I’ll have to remember to use the brakes in the Ariya and I’m not sure I understand the physics of the e-pedal. You used the pro pilot system. I have not tried Supercruise. I like all the safety bells and whistles but I’m not ready for self driving. Your demo of self parking however was pretty amazing. All of this come down to Does my wife like it??? Again, think your video might help as well as a test drive. Thanks for doing such a great video with no music and no nonsense headlines. I’m turning to YouTube to make big decisions and truth is the best sales pitch. Thanks Again!!!
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 | Miss GoElectric Thank you, Pete.😊 I am glad the review was helpful for you. The Ariya is a great balance of having a lot of modern tech without being intrusive. The goal here is always to provide an honest view of what a vehicle does well and doesn't, that realistically impacts the buyer, so I appreciate you sharing your experience. Please keep me posted if you end up purchasing & how you wife likes the vehicle if/when she drives it! 🤓 Feel free to comment again if you have any other questions 😊 Thanks for watching and commenting! 😊 |
You’re welcome and thank you for responding. This is truly a new age of communication. Yes, my goal was to drive as many EV’s as possible because that’s really the fun and freedom of shopping a car, we’ve been so programmed to just trading in the Hondas that the Thrill of buying was pretty much lost BUT we loved the Hondas. But now the EV is a whole new ballgame and I’m in! To me everything about the EV driving experience is Better than ICE and I’ll never go back But there is that range factor on road trips. The only downside of this transition is the EV charging infrastructure and it keeps getting better. 99.9% or our driving is within 50 miles, we charge on 240 at home so I don’t miss gas stations at all. But when we go to Charlotte about 100 miles, I would want to charge up while there. Our Hyatt has a charge station and I think this will be part of the wave of the future. I could tell in yesterday’s drive that the Ariya would be a great replacement for our 21 CRV Hybrid so I hope my wife will take a test drive to prove it to herself. She doesn’t want to be in a space ship even if she’s not driving and she is preconceived about Nissan but, like you point out, Nissan has a great track record with EV’s starting with the leaf and talked to a local owner who loves hers. I have a few months to fool around but ironically I just got an email from Honda finance telling me that my lease is almost over and I have three options; turn in, trade in or buy. Carvana has changed the car landscape. They sent me an offer for the CRV that’s about 5k more than my purchase price. Theoretically I could buy mine and sell it to Carvana and use that money to buy the car I want. Or just buy it and hold it for awhile and use it for our longer trips where plugging in could be a challenge. I’m just thinking out loud to you so forgive me. I’ll figure it out but I will ask you, have you had any dealings or opinions about Carvana? What we Don’t’ want is to have strangers coming to the house to “look” at the car. So Carvana might be our ticket. Thanks for listening and thanks for responding. I will figure it out and I’ll let you know. First thing I’m going to do is look up if Nissan dealerships provide charging stations… Thanks Again!
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