The facelifted Nissan Kicks e-Power has just been launched in Indonesia, nearly four months after the B-segment crossover made its debut in Thailand. The launch was livestreamed on Nissan Motor Indonesia’s YouTube channel yesterday evening, and announced during the digital event was its pricing of 449 million rupiah (RM126k). Not cheap for a B-segment SUV in Indonesia.
Like the Thai and Japanese market, the Kicks e-Power is only available with one powertrain choice in Indonesia. A HR12DE 1.2 litre three-cylinder petrol engine with 79 PS and 103 Nm is deployed to act solely as a generator, providing power for a 1.57 kWh battery positioned under the front seats.
This in turn provides power for the electric motor with an output rating of 95 kW, or equivalent to 129 PS and 260 Nm of torque. This e-motor drives the front wheels, and it’s important to note that the internal combustion engine only acts as a pure range extender in this configuration.
Just like the current Leaf, the car uses a shift-by-wire system and a One-Pedal function for acceleration and deceleration. Four drive modes are available – Smart, Eco, Normal and EV.
The Indonesian model gets Nissan Safety Shield as standard, with functions such as intelligent cruise control, forward collision warning, emergency braking system, blind spot warning, around view monitor with moving object detection, rear-cross traffic alert, intelligent trace control, and hill-start assist.
Nissan Motor Indonesia boss Isao Sekiguchi said: “The all-new Nissan Kicks e-Power is designed with the needs of consumers in Indonesia in mind. The e-Power system, One-Pedal operation, and various other advanced features were carefully selected to meet the needs of the sensation of driving an electric car in Indonesia.”
Each purchase of the car comes with a three-year or 100,000 km warranty, whereas the battery and electrical systems come with a five-year or 100,000 km coverage. Now that our neighbours have gotten the updated Kicks, will it ever come to Malaysia? Apparently, Edaran Tan Chong Motor has plans to do so once the N18 Almera is launched. However, it’s unclear whether we’ll get the e-Power powertrain or not.
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Indonesia is so lucky to get this Game-Changing EV SUV. I hope our lembab ETCM can wake up and run their business properly, then we will see more Nissan Game Changers instead of the current outdated cars
With this pricing, Nissan Indo sure to GO kaukau.
ETCM should bring in the latest Qashqai and X Trail. Don’t know why the like to sell outdated model.
Pointless technology. Worst polluting then an ICE car. Might as well drive an ICE car why bother using a petrol engine charge the battery? You either buy a full Battery Electric or ICE. In between is just marketing gimmick and polluting the environment more.
Its obvious you dont know the reason behind this technology. Range extender is solely created due to the amount of energy produced by gasoline is way higher compared to the current technology battery(density). In order to prevent further weight(Weight/power ratio) gain due to battery size(expensive). This solution allows the smaller battery to be placed in the car. The amount of gasoline required to charge the battery will be way less compared to amount of gasoline required to drive the car. Thus, its reduction in pricing and carbon emission.
https://paultan.org/2020/06/26/2020-nissan-kicks-facelift-debuts-in-japan-fr-rm110k/
https://paultan.org/2020/05/15/2020-nissan-kicks-facelift-e-power-now-launched-in-thailand-updated-design-four-variants-from-rm121k/
https://paultan.org/2020/09/03/nissan-kicks-e-power-launched-in-indonesia-rm126k/
Indonesia the most expensive now
Japan RM110k+
Thailand RM121k+
Indonesia RM126k+
https://paultan.org/2014/09/19/iims-2014-honda-hr-v-asean-debut/
Meanwhile, HR-V 1.5L only RM65k at Indonesia, full spec 1.8L with panaromic sunroof only RM95k.
so cheap also tak laku at Indonesia, Nissan Kicks probably d.o.a at Indonesia.
Why without Indonesian national car, is a B-segment Crossover more expensive than national car C-segment proper SUV? It show these Japanese brands are overpricing their cars. At Sweden, our national car is priced to compete with Mercedes Benz & BMW but we still buy Volvos because their value is on par. This Kicks has no equal value to an X70 whatsoever.
When comes to Bolehland, RM140K +++..Of coz with lousy specs.
Of course! This is ETCM we’re talking about. If it’s not way too late introduction, it is unattractive pricing or unappealing specs, or unreliable aftersales, or more likely all of the above.