Nissan is not launching a plug-in hybrid in November. Automotive News reported on Monday that the 2027 Rogue with e-POWER will reach US dealers that month, months earlier than the mid-2027 plan Nissan had been working to. InsideEVs and autoevolution both restated the same briefing on 31 August. The first cars are Japan-built, one or two per retailer, with volume described as about 6,000 units by March 2027, when two more trims are supposed to join. That is a calendar and a trickle, not a nationwide stocked row.
The powertrain is a series hybrid. Dual electric motors drive the wheels; a 1.5-liter turbocharged three-cylinder is there to make electricity. InsideEVs, citing Nissan Americas, puts a roughly 2 kWh pack on that loop, charged by the engine and regenerative braking, and says there is no plug-in port. autoevolution, working from the same Automotive News account, is explicit that you do not plug the vehicle in. We are not calling this a PHEV, and we are not calling it a battery-electric car. Nissan’s US sales chief, Tiago Castro, told Automotive News, “We believe this hybrid is a home run.” InsideEVs adds that Nissan expects upwards of 40 mpg. That is a company expectation, not an EPA label, and these write-ups do not publish a US MSRP.
GetEVCar does not list a Rogue, e-POWER or otherwise. The Nissan page that is live for US shoppers is the Leaf under Nissan: 75 kWh and 488 km on the S+ trim, 150 kW DC, with a USD dealer flag. If the question is a compact SUV you can actually plug in in the United States today, the live row is the Kia Sorento Plug-in Hybrid — 13.8 kWh, 55 km of electric range, 209 kW combined, 3.3 kW AC — with US and UK dealer flags, listed on the PHEV catalogue under Kia. That is a plug-in hybrid. The Rogue arriving in November is not.
The Toyota RAV4 Plug-in Hybrid is the other compact plug-in already on this site, under Toyota: 22.7 kWh, 137 km electric, 200 kW, 11 kW AC and 35 kW DC. Our availability row for that car is the UK, not the US. We are not writing a US RAV4 PHEV dealer flag the page does not show. Hyundai’s Santa Fe EREV — a plug-in range extender, Alabama-built, first half of 2027, more than 600 miles combined — was the 27 August post. That car is supposed to plug in. Nissan’s Rogue hybrid, on the numbers published this week, is not.
autoevolution, still via Automotive News, puts gas-only Rogue production at Smyrna, Tennessee, in summer 2027 and hybrid production there in the first half of 2028. Until those cars exist as a listed model, the useful next clicks stay the Leaf, the Sorento PHEV, and the UK RAV4 PHEV. What we are not claiming: an EPA mpg, a US sticker price, that e-POWER is a plug-in hybrid, that GetEVCar has a Rogue page, or that Kia’s PV7 van teaser (IAA Transportation, 14 September) and Toyota’s unnamed Lexus BEV SUV for a Shanghai plant in autumn 2027 are this story.
