Nissan pits electric Ariya's ‘sports-car-level power' against Tesla

TOKYO — Embattled Nissan Motor Co., seeking to amp up its electric vehicle street cred, says the company's long-awaited Ariya crossover will be a new Tesla-fighting machine that packs "sports car-level power" and a 379-mile range by Japanese measurements — or an estimated 300 miles by U.S. measurements.