- Nissan’s Rogue crossover will go plug-in hybrid quickly
- The system could also be associated to that within the Mitsu Outlander PHEV
- A separate Rogue Hybrid will emerge quickly, too
The Nissan Rogue will quickly add a plug-in hybrid variant utilizing tech from company ally Mitsubishi.
However as Inexperienced Automotive Reviews has discovered, that does not in any respect imply its long-awaited Nissan e-Energy hybrid system has been sidelined; Nissan plans to supply a wealthy alternative between hybrids and PHEVs within the lineup, as Toyota does with the RAV4, inside a pair years.
As Automotive and Driver lately reported—a product additionally confirmed by Nissan to GCR—a Rogue plug-in hybrid will go on sale within the U.S. within the 2025 calendar 12 months.
That may seemingly make it a 2026 mannequin. It would even be Nissan’s first U.S.-market plug-in hybrid, though the automaker has provided typical hybrids up to now.
2025 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid
The Nissan may reportedly share parts with the Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid, which is sensible, because the Rogue and Outlander are based mostly on the identical platform. Moreover, Nissan had beforehand confirmed that it could use the system in one in every of its North American autos—the results of the company alliance between the 2 automakers that began in 2016, when Nissan purchased a stake in Mitsubishi.
The present Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid makes use of a 2.4-liter inline-4 with a pair of electrical motors for 248 hp and an EPA-rated 28 miles of electrical vary. The Mitsubishi hybrid system additionally permits for a mixture of sequence operation (as is the norm in hybrids) and parallel operation, wherein the gasoline engine successfully acts as a generator with the motors offering all propulsion.
2025 Nissan Rogue
As of earlier this 12 months, Nissan appeared to be pointing to pickups as the perfect use for the Mitsubishi system. It was reported on the time that Nissan and Mitsubishi had been co-developing a new technology of pickups, with all-electric and plug-in hybrid powertrains, to be manufactured in Mexico and offered within the U.S.
In the meantime, Nissan’s long-awaited e-Energy hybrid system, which is a well-regarded series-hybrid system already provided in Europe, Japan, and elsewhere, is lastly as a result of arrive to the U.S. market.
Nissan e-Energy U.S. launch timeline
Nissan confirmed Thursday to Inexperienced Automotive Reviews that, alongside the Mitsubishi-based PHEV Rogue, an e-Energy hybrid Rogue will be part of the lineup for the U.S. in our 2026 fiscal 12 months. That interprets to anyplace from April 2026 by March 2027.
The automaker did additionally announce final March that there will probably be a number of hybrid and PHEV fashions U.S.-bound by 2028—a few of which can use e-Energy—and that it goals for value parity with non-hybrid autos.
