Owners of select Nissan vehicles can now ask Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant to start, lock, and unlock their vehicles with a simple request like “Alexa, start my car.”
“Nissan is the first automaker to work with Amazon on new features that leverage Alexa’s new Connected Vehicle Skills API,” the automaker says, “making it more direct and easier for customers to control vehicle functions with Alexa.”
The Alexa “skill” works with Nissan vehicles equipped with NissanConnect – a smartphone-based subscription service that allows owners to control certain functions remotely.
Households with multiple Nissan vehicles, the company says, can “personalize the names of each of them and use the name to direct the request.” One example would be to say: “Alexa, lock Wyatt’s car.”
The automaker notes that customers can maintain multiple vehicles on the same account. For example: “Alexa, start my Rogue” and, “Alexa, start my Titan.”
The skill is available immediately and functions with the following vehicles:
- 2016 and newer Altima
- 2018 and newer Armada
- 2017 and newer GT-R
- 2016 and newer Maxima
- 5 and newer Murano
- 2017 and newer Pathfinder
- 2016 and newer Rogue
- 2017 and newer Rogue Sport
- 2017 and newer TITAN
- 2016 and newer TITAN XD
- 2016 and newer Sentra (excluding 2019 and 2020)
