This is certainly one way to add a hybrid power train to a car. #nissan #rogue #phev #newcar

This is certainly one way to add a hybrid power train to a car. #nissan #rogue #phev #newcar

This is the 2026 Nissan Rogue Plug-in Hybrid. Oh. Oh crap. Wait. This is the Nissan Rogue Plug-in Hybrid. And overt badged engineering is so back, baby. They couldn’t have elongated this grilled to fit the whole thing like at all to differentiate it at all. And then on the back, they just covered up the Mitsubishi logo with the spaced out lettering Nissan to make it kind of look like a light bar, which is the only differentiation that I can see. In its defense, it does have different wheels. Jokes aside, it’s going to come with the same turbocharged 2.4 liter inline four-cylinder engine that’s then connected to two electric motors with a 16.8 kWh battery pack, giving you 38 mi of total electric range and a total range of around 400 m. My question to Nissan, though, is why did y’all not just dump this in the current generation Rogue like a couple of years ago? like a mailing stamp. They literally went Nissan on the steering wheel and they were like, “Okay, yeah, no, that that works. That’s it. We’re good.” I mean, the infotainment system already looks like a Nissan one, and I guess all they had to do was change some software for the gauge cluster, but and I guess the seats look a little different, but I mean, name.