please review NIO ES8

BIG QUESTION: Does it have active thermal management of the battery? This was what killed the Leaf as a viable EV IMHO…

Nissan will not withdraw its production in NaziRussia, so anyone buying this car will in a way support terror.

This car was planned to be selling for 2 years already, and will be available in the real life in 2023…

BMW 7 became Asian while Nissan became German ))

In America, electric drawer is perfect for handgun

Sounds very noisy. I’ve had a few EVs and can say the ID4 is probably the most quiet one I’ve driven. Now the Audi & Porsche are literally quiet

Nissan held their cards pretty close to their chest before laying out this hand. Looks like a solid four of a kind with an Ace high! Nicely played Nissan.

FWD is much better than RWD for EV range. The car can regen much harder thanks to the weight change to the front axle. Worse acceleration but better regen. More should do FWD only, unbelivable that so few offer it. and AWD is the most unessesary thing ever for family cars with modern ESC systems

The wheel size and features make no difference in the Canadian market. What counts is price, range (especially in winter) and reliability. Nissan Rogue is so popular here, when you have city and suburban drivers who have a driveway and can plug-in easily, and the lowest cost for hydro in North America (Quebec).. You have a recipe for absolute success.

I like capacities bouton because it is easy to clean 😹anyway very exhaustive presentation of a Tesla competitor. Many thanks

Yasuragi spa outside of stockholm. great place!

Nice review and good style of review. How would you rate refinement or comfort of ride in this compared to say an EQA? Refinement was noted as quite stiff in early UK reviews in pre production here.

Good review as usual. Im glad Nissan has stepped-up to the plate since their Leaf had fallen into anonymity and obsolescence. Personally, in this EV segment I think the Ionic 5 is a better car. Its, space packaging is 2nd to none. I also think, designwise its a more interesting car. On the same driving conditions efficiency is similar and charging is better.

Great review as always BUT i think you should start talking about the battery technology as well Since they are coming up with so many new battery technologies.
I mean we are hearing about 1milion miles batteries and 10min charging. i wouldnt wanna buy a car with old lithium ion batteries while solid state batteries or whatever they are doing is booming if you know what i mean.
I love your channel keep it up. Great work as always.

The Nissan Hitler was also dropped.

Does it have a simple knob for fan speed, or a simple knob for volume………..If not….It won't be in My future….Paul

The new Lyrik is an immensely better looking car, AND with 500 HP coming…….I have one on order……….Paul

Thanks for your review looks great 👍

Why the Germens or Iranians be ashamed of their race or heritage. These are both great Civilizations and have contributed to humanity a great deal and is continuing to do so.

gibts das Video auch auf deutsch?

I like it more than the competition except perhaps Audi

Nice car. Nice accent. Germans are indeed Aryans so I don't see any problem with the name. This car will sell very well in Murica because of its name .

They did well w this thing, very well indeed.

Well I know where I’ll be putting my Walther PPK 🤣 I suppose the buttons disappear when the car is off so it’s an extra safe place to put valuables?

They started advertising this car like 3 years ago.. they lost market share by releasing this so late

Wow great vid

I agree with the testdriver about the name I thought the same!!But luckily the historical knowledge is very poor.Further I say very nice car,very good testdriver.I wil think about it .In my country gasoline price is €2,50.!

No frunk 🙁 Good job, great presentation. Cheers from France

Really appreciate your honest testing and review!

does it have over the air updates?

It appears that headroom is going to be a problem for the Ariya for drivers over 6 feet tall. I am 6’3” and one of the first things I test in any car is whether or not I have enough headroom. I sat in the Ioniq 5 and VW ID.4 on dealer’s lots (both of which were pre-sold, otherwise I would have bought either of them) and was pleased to find more than ample headroom. Otherwise the Ariya looks like a very attractive EV. By the way, I don’t see why Germans have a problem with a pronunciation that sounds like Aryan when their largest auto manufacturer dates directly back to Adolf Hitler’s plan to develop a “people’s car” — translation Volkswagen) to ordinary German families.

copper color looks amazing. just wish the boot wasn't so damn tiny..

Looks like a Lexus from the side.

34:55 Efficiency.
I see an average of 47 km/h.
When driving with, could reach wit nearly 100 km/h (under perfect conditions) 510 km this speed with my original hyunday ioniq premium (2017 model) I'll go with less than 110 wh/km under ideal conditions.
My other car, the ioniq 5 AWD limited will use less than 160 wh /km with double speed…95 km/h under these conditions.
My previous LR car, a Kona64, has a record for 135wh/km with a driving speed of 100 km/h under perfect conditions.

I'm not impressed for this usage…disappointed even.

(There is a reason that I switche from the Nissan leaf (model 2013) to hyundai EV's..the most important reason is the lack of efficiency in Nissan EV cars.)

Like its sister car Megan E tech the interior is fresh

Price is a little hard to justify when model y and ev6 is available

When you spoke about the name, I recalled similar situations, like in Spain mitsubishi pajero is sold as montero, because pajero in spanish means wanker. In russia renault captur is sold as Kaptur, because otherwise it can be misread as "sartir" in russian, what means toilet. In Portugal hyundai kona is sold under the same name, but the word "cona" (sounds the same as kona) means "count" without "o". This situation happens everywhere.

I have a 2020 Nissan Leaf 62 kWh, Do you know if Nissan intends to upgrade the Leaf to bring it in line with the Ariya battery and charging technology?

An Ariya to "honour" Germany's new "friends" in the east perhaps? If the cap fits, wear it!

sigh ….. Physics/maths is not hard. It's also not magic. That range at the end of 13kWh per 100km is never going to be acheivable in real world use….even Nissan claim up to 276Wh per km in the real world (depending on temp..see below). Which is 27.6kWh per 100km….giving a real world range of ~250Km

It takes a certain amount of energy to move a certain mass a given distance. The energy used is converted into heat, light, sound by various forces in overcoming frictional resistances, air drag etc. If you drive up hill some is converted into potential energy. If you drive down hill some of your previously stored potential energy can be liberated for motion. But regardless there is a minimum required energy. EV's are already very energy efficient due to the way electric motors work (~99% efficient), low CD body designs,low rolling resitance tires, etc. There are a few other loses in the electrical system so actual efficiency is ~80% of energy put into the system results in kinetic energy in the vehicle.
So we are kind of at the limit of how little energy is required to move a NEW EV with new tires etc over a flat distance, that being ~200Wh per km in theory and ~300Wh in reality

So the problem with EV range is the energy storage and delivery technology: I.E Batteries. The problems of which are three fold technically:

1)Energy Density.
Lithium batteries weigh about 15kg per 1 kWh which means you need ~5Kg of battery per 1Km of distance travelled as opposed to gasoline which contains ~12.7kWh Energy per 1Kg.
Which means that even with the much lower efficiency of an ICE (~45%) you only need ~20g of fuel per 1Km travelled
A 60 litre gasoline tank weighs 45Kg and contains ~600kWh of energy and will net you about 600Km range…~1Km per KwH
To acheive the same with lithium batteries would require over 3000Kg of batteries…whcih would mean all that extra weight would also need to be moved resulting in less range….
So EV's may be in theory 2 or 3x as efficient as ICE in converting energy in into kinetic energy but that does not include the losses from production and transmission of the energy TO the vehicle in the first place. That is the central energy generation relies on less efficient energy conversion and transmission to the vehicle results in about 15% losses, resulting in a sum efficiency of Fuel (at the power plant) to kinetic energy (at the vehicle) of ~60%.

2)Energy Profile
Vehicles require an energy profile of Fast Charge/Slow Discharge.
Batteries have the exact opposite profile. And no matter how much people claim to make "Super Fast chargers" you cant beat physics.
If you charge ANY lithium battery at > 1C (1C being a measure of charge/discharge in 1 Hour and not an absolute number) you will drastically shorten the life of the battery
If you charge it a > 5C (Ie full charge in faster than 10 minutes) for more than a few seconds you will permamently damage the battery and potentially destroy it.

Which means your batteries can under NO circumstances be charged faster than 1 hour repeatedly without damaging them..no matter how "fast" the charger is or how small or large your batteries are. And to acheive that 1 hour charge on 3000Kg (200kWh) of batteries would of course require a 200kW charger…that is 870Amps @240V (1 phase domestic supply) or 300Amps on a 3 phase industrial supply. Essentially you would melt your House, the street and the entire neighbour hoods supply if you attempted that with home charging.

The upshot being that no matter how "efficient" they make an EV and no matter how many batteries they ram in to it…you simply will not be able to charge it in any meaningful time.
The maximum recommended C rating for charging a Lithium battery is 0.8C overall with a tailed off profile. So in reality the best you can expect is to charge your EV to 100% SoC is no faster than 1.5 hours regardless of capacity and charger rating.

And then we come to cycles….Li batteries will lose about 3% capacity per year if cycled at @300 full cycles per annum.

3) Enviroment
Lithium batteries have a fundemental problem with temperature. It is their worst enemy.
At temps >40C they temporarily lose capacity drastically. So on a hot summers day your 400Km range will become more like 200-300
At temps < 0C then CANNOT be charged. Dendrites form which bridge the anode and cathode and short circuit the battery permanently destroying it.

So basically EV's are a great idea. Batteries as a power source are not.

What is the problem with the leather?
Comes from the meat industry, humans eat animals, you will have leather to use.

Jesus they got to stop putting piano black on the steering wheel

Totally having nothing to do with the topic, but hearing you reminds me of Dieter Zetsche when he made Chrysler TV ads in the days when Daimler owned Chrysler.