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Nissan Rogue Plug-in Hybrid

The tastefully toned-down exterior has the biggest changes from the Mitsubishi version, replacing some of the larger chrome elements with black or extended body-colored panels. Black 20-inch wheels come standard, with the Platinum trim adding gloss-black roof rails. A black bar with “NISSAN” written across it connects the two taillights across the rear hatch as well.

The Rogue PHEV also features all-LED exterior lighting, including the prominent stacks of lights at each edge of the front that look exactly like the Outlander PHEV’s. These may stand out a bit more depending on which color you get, because the prominent chrome elements connecting the grille and lights have been deleted, with Nissan opting to extend the body color and black from the grille to cover that space.

Like the Outlander PHEV, the Rogue PHEV keeps many of its most-used audio, climate, and drive mode controls on physical buttons, switches, and knobs, bucking the trend of making an interior look more futuristic at the cost of usability. Standard features include a 9-inch center infotainment touchscreen, a 12.3-inch driver’s display, and wireless Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. Nissan also used acoustically laminated front door glass to further isolate the cabin from outside noise.

Upgrading to the Platinum trim adds a 10-inch head-up display, leather seats, and a nine-speaker Bose sound system.

The front and second rows get one USB-A and one USB-C port each. The Platinum grade also adds two home-style 120-volt outlets—one for second-row passengers and one in the cargo area—capable of outputting 1,500 watts of power, plus a separate set of climate controls for the rear passenger area.

While the PHEV technically fits seven passengers, third-row passengers don’t get much in terms of niceties. Based on the Outlander, we expect it to be suitable only for smaller children.

Cargo is an easier fit, with objects up to 80 inches long fitting behind the front row of seats. According to Nissan, there’s 30.8 cubic feet of rear cargo space behind the second row of seats, which expands to 64.7 cubic feet with the second row folded down and shrinks to 12.8 cubic feet with the third row up. The company also claims the Rogue PHEV can fit four golf bags behind the second row, so take that, Corvette. A motion-activated, power rear liftgate (where you can wave under the bumper with your foot to open it) comes standard.

Powering the Rogue PHEV is a 2.4-liter inline four-cylinder gasoline engine and a dual-motor hybrid system, which give it all-wheel drive. They take the place of a traditional transmission and directly power the Rogue PHEV’s wheels. All in all, the powertrain produces 248 hp and 332 lb.-ft. of torque, which is a nice bump in power over the standard Rogue’s 201 hp.

The Rogue PHEV’s 20-kilowatt-hour battery gives it an all-electric range of 38 miles and a total range of 420 miles, per Nissan’s estimates. According to Nissan, the battery can charge from empty to full in 7.5 hours when hooked up to a Level 2 (240-volt, like most larger appliances use) charger. A Level 1 (120-volt, like a standard home electrical socket) charger is also included as standard equipment.

The only way to pay off the price difference between the regular Rogue and the PHEV is to plug it in. Nissan’s estimated 26 combined mpg is only 1 mpg more than the 25 mpg overall Consumer Reports saw when testing the non-hybrid Rogue. That means owners won’t save any significant cost savings at the pump.

In Consumer Reports’ fuel economy tests, the standard Rogue, the Outlander, and the Outlander PHEV with its battery depleted all got 25 mpg overall. Even then, the regular Rogue lags 2 to 3 mpg behind most of its competitors in fuel economy.

The Rogue PHEV has selectable drive modes for both terrain type and efficiency. EV, Save, and Charge modes tweak how much of the electric or gasoline engine is used. The “B” mode on the gear selector enables additional regenerative braking, which helps slow the SUV and feeds the braking energy it recaptures back into the hybrid system’s battery.

Like the Nissan Leaf, the Rogue PHEV also has an “e-Step” mode that offers the maximum amount of regenerative braking available, but it stops just shy of being a true one-pedal driving system (where the regenerative braking level is turned up high enough to stop the car by lifting off the throttle pedal at lower speeds without having to hit the brake pedal).

The Rogue PHEV includes the Nissan Safety Shield 360 suite of active safety and driver assistance features as standard, which includes automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection, blind spot warning, rear cross traffic warning, reverse automatic emergency braking, lane departure warning, and automatic high beams.

Adaptive cruise control also comes standard, with Nissan’s ProPilot Assist active driving assistance system available on higher trims. ProPilot Assist can take over acceleration, steering, and braking on longer trips.

A 360-degree surround-view camera with moving-object detection is available on the top trims.