The Ariya carries 87 kWh usable, the seventh-largest usable pack of the 27 cars here with a sourced figure, behind the R1S, F-150 Lightning, Ioniq 9, Lyriq, EV9 and Extended Range Mach-E, and returns 402 km of observed range — less than the Model 3 manages from 79 kWh. The difference is efficiency, and it is the story of this car.
Range: the claim and the reality
515 km WLTP against about 402 km observed, roughly 78 percent — a normal ratio. The problem is not the ratio, it is the consumption: 216 Wh/km is the second-highest of any car here, behind only the much larger Kia EV9, and more than half again the Model 3’s 142 Wh/km.
Some of that is the dual-motor e-4ORCE drivetrain and 2,259 kg of kerb weight. Some of it is simply a design that was not optimised for consumption. Either way, you buy the electricity.
Charging: the number that decides it
130 kW peak, and 48 minutes from 10 to 80 percent. That is the slowest rapid charge in this database by a wide margin — the Kia EV6 does the same job in seventeen minutes, the Model 3 in 28.
On a 900 km drive needing two stops, that is roughly an hour more standing at chargers than the EV6 asks for. If your driving is local and you charge at home, none of this touches you. If you do long distances, it is the single most consequential figure on this page.
One thing it does better than anything here
22 kW AC onboard charging, double the 11 kW of every other car in this database. Where three-phase AC is common — much of continental Europe, and a good many workplace car parks — the Ariya refills far faster than the rapid-charge figure suggests it should.
What we do not know
The cell supplier is not published, and the field is blank. The capacity-loss figure is the SUV class rate, tagged as an estimate — see the methodology page for why no per-model figure exists.
Charging time and running cost for the Nissan Ariya e-4ORCE 87 kWh are worked out in full on its own page. It works the numbers through at every charger power, with the tariff and efficiency assumptions printed rather than assumed: Nissan Ariya e-4ORCE 87 kWh charging time and cost.
Frequently asked questions
How far does the Nissan Ariya e-4ORCE 87 kWh really go on a charge?
The Nissan Ariya e-4ORCE 87 kWh covers about 402 km in independently observed mixed driving, 515 km on the WLTP cycle, 272 miles on the EPA cycle. That observed figure is about 78 per cent of the WLTP claim — a shortfall is normal for every electric car, and what matters is that this one is predictable rather than that it exists. We rank the size of that gap across the database on claimed vs real range.
How long does the Nissan Ariya e-4ORCE 87 kWh take to charge?
From 10 to 80 per cent on a DC rapid charger it takes about 48 minutes, peaking at 130 kW. That is at the slower end of the 18 cars we hold charging data for — worth weighing if you drive long distances often. On AC at home it accepts up to 22 kW. The peak figure on its own tells you very little — this ranking explains why the window is the honest measure.
How long will the Nissan Ariya e-4ORCE 87 kWh’s battery last?
Our projection puts it at roughly 78.4 per cent of original capacity after eight years. That is an estimate, not a measurement: nobody publishes per-model degradation data, so it applies the published rate for this vehicle class and is labelled as an estimate everywhere it appears. The reasoning is set out in full on the methodology page, and we compare warranty terms across the database on best EV battery warranties.
Who should buy the Nissan Ariya e-4ORCE 87 kWh?
On our data it is one of the biggest batteries in the database at 87 kWh usable. Against that, it is one of the thirstier cars here at 216 Wh/km and one of the slower cars to rapid charge at 48 minutes. Whether that suits you depends on how much of your charging happens at home and how often you drive beyond one charge — the running cost calculator takes your own mileage and tariff, and the comparison tool puts this car next to any other in the database.