November 18, 2025 - Nissan Rogue PHEV Debuts

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for  November 18, 2025, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.  

Nissan was the pioneer in bringing a relatively affordable electric vehicle to market when it launched the Leaf back in 2010. However, since then, its electrification efforts have remained relatively modest, especially in North America. Prior to the 2023 debut of the Ariya, the only electrified models sold besides the Leaf were an Altima equipped with a Toyota hybrid system in the late 2000s and an in-house developed Rogue hybrid that was briefly offered starting in 2017. 

There's an all-new Rogue coming next year as a 2027 model that will offer the 3rd-generation Nissan e-power series hybrid system. But Nissan is also launching a plug-in hybrid that looks completely different. The current Rogue shares its platform with the Mitsubishi Outlander, which has offered a PHEV since 2013. While the underpinnings are common, the Mitsubishi has different styling and is built in Japan, while the Rogue is built in Smyrna, Tennessee, for the North American market. With a new Rogue coming next year, it wasn't deemed worthwhile to tool up the Smyrna plant for PHEV production or modify the current vehicle. Instead, Nissan decided to simply apply a new grille with its badge to the Outlander sourced from Japan.  Given what are likely to be relatively low sales volumes, this is probably a good strategy. 

The only other notable change to the Rogue is the elimination of the DC charging port, which was a CHAdeMO port that only charged at 22 kW, which would still take an hour to replenish the 20-kWh battery. The Rogue will deliver the same 38-mile electric range as the Outlander and has the ability to operate in electric-only, series or parallel hybrid modes. With hybrids becoming increasingly popular in the midsize crossover segment, the 2027 e-Power-equipped Rogue will probably be far more popular than this rebadged Mitsubishi. Toyota is going with a standard hybrid on the new RAV4, and over half of CR-Vs sold are hybrids now. 

Thanks for listening.