2024 Nissan X-Trail e-POWER review: 0-100 & engine sound

2024 Nissan X-Trail ST-L e-Power hybrid review: 0-100 & engine sound. Our written review will be up on our website soon. You can read our X-Trail Ti review here in the meantime: drivingenthusiast.com.au/2023...
2024 Nissan X-Trail ST-L e-Power specifications:
157kW (213PS) combined / 330Nm plus 195Nm e-motors
1.5-litre turbo 3-cylinder range-extender (106kW/250Nm)
1-speed auto transmission with all-wheel drive
Claimed 0-100km/h: N/A
Official average fuel consumption: 6.1L/100km
Tare weight: 1841kg
Boot space: 575L
Price: AU$49,990 (not including on-road costs, at time of upload)
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[@tescoshortage]

This is a really strange hybrid setup. It seems to work more like how a diesel-electric locomotive works than a traditional hybrid does.

[@perpetualgrin5804]

The tacho revs to 10k. A beast.😅

[@marcusgeorge1825]

A nice tried, tested, and proven alternative approach. Great for people who don’t want to go full electric and deal with our lack of charging availabilities and range anxiety. Great video. Thank you. 👍👍

[@351tgv]

I purchased the 2.5L NA petrol i4/ CVT with mechanical AWD instead of the E:Power (petrol generator Electric with electric AWD), yes the 2.5L has just enough top end power but lacks low and mid range torque but it's not a race car, I would rather mechanical AWD all day long over electric AWD and as for fuel economy after 10.800km the average is 7.8L per 100km which is where Nissan rate it also, that said on the highway I have seen mid 5's (granted just me with zero cargo and on 98 RON) no air con and on a flat long (boring) highway out western NSW, happy with it so far, know people with E:Power and they are getting also mid 5's average so again both options are good (as is the sister vehicle Outlander)

[@shanea9613]

Be interesting to drive with the battery depleted and then doing a performance run with the engine charging the battery.

[@tonycoz2309]

Similar in concept to the Honda e:Hev.

[@Video-co1eu]

Unfortunately the top speed seems very disappointing, the initial acceleration is quite fast but very slow at speeds after 120 km/h. Usually we hope that with acceleration this wild the top speed can be more than that

[@Citizen052]

Any idea what is the size of the battery? Is it lithium ion type?

[@drivingenthusiastaustralia]

2.1kWh lithium-ion (1.73 usable)

[@Eugen-E]

This is not a range extender hybrid. Range extender is a very small engine like that in BMW i3 REX model. And the purpose of that thing is to go to the nearest charging point to charge the car. Here the gas engine directly powers the electric motors via the generator and it's purpose is not to go to charge the car.

[@drivingenthusiastaustralia]

This is very similar to the i3. This runs on electric motors only, and the 1.5 turbo engine is there purely to provide range. It is capable of driving under electric power alone, in EV mode. Where does it get the power from? The 1.5 engine. In other words, the petrol engine extends the range. If it wasn't for the petrol engine, it would be an electric vehicle with very limited range.

[@Eugen-E]

@@drivingenthusiastaustralia That's completely false. 1. "Extending range" is for EVs (with a range extender) because hybrids does not have any "range" unless they are PHEVs. The hybrid system is there to "help"/"work together with" the gas engine, not to provide "range" even if they can go 1-2-3km in EV mode. 2. A range extender engine is a very very tiny and weak engine (the i3 had a 2-cylinder 0.65L with 25kW) whose purpose is to "extend the range" in order to find a charger to charge that EV, not to drive hundreads of km with that empty battery relying on that scooter engine. Here you use that engine in a normal way, not "to extend the range" because it's not even a PHEV and it doesn't have any range. 3. This is just a series hybrid where the gas engine is a generator not a range extender. And it wouldn't be a electric vehicle because there is no EV with a 2.1kWh battery. This is a series hybrid (toyota uses a series-parallel hybrid).

[@drivingenthusiastaustralia]

@@Eugen-E Agree to disagree there mate. This does have a small battery as you said, but it works very similar to a larger-battery range-extender EV. Even Nissan calls e-Power an advanced form of range-extender EV. Official Nissan image: drivingenthusiast.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Nissan-e-Power-development.png

[@Eugen-E]

@@drivingenthusiastaustralia They use that rhetoric as a marketing trick. They want people to think that their hybrids are not hybrids but more like EVs ))) Mild hybrids are also marketed as being "hybrids", but they are not. Similar doesn't mean the same. If it uses the gas engine as a generator that doesn't mean it's a range extender. That would mean every series hybrid (for ex. Honda hybrids) is a "range extender" which doesn't make any sense. Just agree that these are two different things with two different modes of operation ))) 1. There is no range to be extended in a hybrid car. 2. A range extender is a scooter engine and should be used just for reaching the charging point (extending the range of an EV).

[@iimer]

@Eugen-E is right. The combustion engine in this car is a generator. To call it a range extender is incorrect because unlike an i3 or MX-30, it has no other means of attaining meaningful range. The engine is the primary source of electricity generation, whereas on the MX-30 (for example) the wall socket is the primary source and the engine is secondary / reserved for emergencies.

[@farque1000]

If the battery gets too low, the car will give you only 80% power.

[@davetaylor4741]

I couldn't care less what they call it. Way too many EV nerds. No doubt the same ones that got bullied at school. Is it a practical vehicle you can drive further than the shops. Yes. Are you dependent on finding a public charger at exorbitant cost. And one in working condition. No. Looks department. Not bad. Interior. Pretty good. That colour. Nice. Price. Can't afford it. But for once a car I would test drive with a view to buy. I know the X trail. They haven't been bad cars. Apart from the gearboxes. They all break. Expensive to fix. Won't have that problem on this version. Some form of hybrid is the only realistic option, given the current batteries and infrastructure. Unless you are a total EV nut. They can travel to the moon and back on a single charge. Leap tall buildings. Knit fog. And walk on water, at the weekend. Back on planet earth. Don't mind this car.

[@drivingenthusiastaustralia]

Well said. I guess the only thing left is if this e-Power actually improves fuel economy. The official rating is 6.1L/100km, which isn't that impressive in the world of hybrids etc. Personally, I think it is an interesting idea but I'd probably just buy a basic petrol model with less weight and arguably fewer complex parts (aside from CVTs).