The Nissan Ariya will undercut various key rivals on price, but early buyers of the long-awaited mid-size electric SUV – launching here in September – may get an even better deal.
The base Engage variant, as well as the mid-range Advance and Advance+ grades, are being offered with a free three-phase onboard charger upgrade valued at $3000.
Nissan says this offer applies to a “limited number of purchases” of these variants while stocks last, though it hasn’t said how many exactly.
The top-spec Evolve already comes with this feature as standard.
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Certain customers can also receive a free Autel Maxicharger 22kW AC home charger supplied through Nissan’s charging partner JET Charge, valued at $1479.
However, this offer doesn’t include installation, and ends on September 30, 2025. Government, rental and national fleet customers are also excluded.
Nissan says that, in conjunction with a three-phase onboard charger, this Autel unit can slash the time to take your Ariya from 10 to 100 per cent from as long as 12.5 hours using a 7.4kW single-phase charger to just 3.5-4.5 hours.
The brand offers electric vehicle (EV) sales and servicing across over 90 dealerships in its network, and promises more will come on line over the next six months.
Of course, Nissan Australia is no stranger to EVs, having offered the Leaf electric hatch since 2013.
The Ariya SUV, however, is arriving here much later than it did in other markets. Revealed in production guise in 2020, it entered production in 2021.
An Australian launch was first planned for 2023 but its arrival was postponed – something which Nissan Australia blamed on Australian Design Rules (ADRs) as well as limited supply for our market.
The Ariya’s belated arrival in Australia means it avoided an EV price war across the Australian auto industry, led by aggressive price cuts from market-leading EV brand, Tesla.
“I think we’ve been smart with the timing,” Nissan Australia boss Andrew Humberstone told CarExpert in September 2024.
“Or else we would have had to respond to the market conditions and our pricing would have been catastrophic. I think we’ve read that one well.”
Starting at $55,840 before on-road costs, the Ariya is more than $10,000 cheaper than the most affordable Toyota bZ4X ($66,000 before on-roads) and Subaru Solterra ($69,990 plus on-roads).
It also manages to undercut the popular Tesla Model Y (priced from $58,900 plus on-roads), the best-selling model in this segment, though it’s more expensive than the second-placed BYD Sealion 7 (from $54,990 before on-roads).
The Ariya is backed by Nissan’s 10-year, 300,000km vehicle warranty – provided you service within the brand’s dealer network – and an eight-year, 160,000km battery warranty.