So it seems we nonetheless haven’t got full particulars on the 2023 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. Data will proceed to trickle out as a substitute. However not less than now we have data on one of many SUV’s most crucial components: the battery pack. It has extra capability, and may have extra vary.
The outgoing Outlander PHEV had a 13.8-kWh battery pack good for 22 to 24 miles of all-electric vary. The brand new mannequin’s battery expands to twenty kWh. On the WLTP cycle, it is good for 54 miles, however the U.S. EPA numbers will most likely be decrease. The capability improve is about 45%, so making use of that to the miles, we’re anticipating someplace round 32 to 35 miles of electrical vary. That will put it near the Ford Escape PHEV’s 37 miles of vary and the Kia Sorento PHEV’s 32 miles. It could nonetheless path the RAV4 Prime’s 42 miles of vary.
Mitsubishi additionally famous that the fuel tank has expanded, too, so the Outlander PHEV’s general vary ought to improve. Regardless of all this, the plug-in hybrid additionally retains a 3rd row of seats, one thing its predecessor misplaced. This is because of a revised rear motor that features the motor controller as a part of the unit. The earlier mannequin had the controller positioned within the passenger compartment. Mitsubishi says this freed up inside room for the rear-most seats and likewise decreased the quantity of high-frequency noise within the cabin.
As for the powertrain itself, Mitsubishi is not sharing output particulars. All it has mentioned is that the Outlander PHEV nonetheless has twin electrical motors, plus a fuel engine. That engine is a 2.4-liter four-cylinder much like the present mannequin. The press launch Mitsubishi supplied suggests the electrical motors are stronger, so we may even see greater than the 221 mixed horsepower of the outgoing mannequin.
The Outlander PHEV will go on sale within the United State within the second half of subsequent yr. We must always have many extra particulars on it as we strategy the on-sale date.
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