Nissan Ariya Nismo is most surely the Nismo EV being revealed tomorrow

As CES winds down, the Tokyo Auto Salon show will be starting up. It's sort of the Japanese counterpart to SEMA, featuring aftermarket companies and OEMs showing off modified cars and parts. And Nissan will be kicking it off with an unnamed (but seemingly easy to guess) Nismo-tuned EV.

The announcement comes via Nissan's YouTube channel, where a placeholder video for the reveal stream shows the reveal time and the basics about it being a Nismo EV. And because we've embedded it at the top of this post, be sure to come back for the reveal, which will be at 8 p.m. Thursday (tomorrow), January 11. All that's shown in the placeholder is a silhouette of the vehicle.

Seeing as Nissan only has three EVs on sale, it's not too hard to guess what this is. One EV, the Leaf, is old and has had a Nismo model released in Japan, so that's probably out. Another, the Sakura kei EV, is a boxy little thing that doesn't fit the silhouette at all. So that leaves the Ariya, which has a curvy, short nose that fits the image well.