The 2025 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Didn’t Get This Important Update

In Europe, the refreshed Outlander PHEV comes with a bigger battery for more electric range. In the U.S., not so much.

Photo by: Mitsubishi

Iulian Dnistran

By: Iulian Dnistran

Feb 20, 2025 at 3:05am ET

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The U.S.-spec 2025 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV gets the same battery as the outgoing model.
In Europe, customers get a bigger battery that increases the electric range.

Mitsubishi prides itself on making the world’s best-selling all-wheel drive plug-in hybrid SUV. That’s the Outlander PHEV–a well-priced, well-specced SUV that has the rare ability to run as both a parallel and a series hybrid.

So when Mitsubisi’s European arm announced that the facelifted Outlander PHEV would get a bigger battery pack that enables more range, I automatically assumed that the same would happen in the United States. That hasn’t happened, though, and the 2025 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV is stuck with the same 20-kilowatt-hour battery pack (gross) that enables an EPA-estimated electric range of 38 miles on a full charge.

By contrast, customers in Europe get a 22.7-kWh battery that leads to an electric-only WLTP range of 53 miles (86 kilometers). The European version also gets a larger fuel tank, so the total combined range with a full battery and full tank of gas is now 524 miles (844 km) on the WLTP cycle.

In the U.S., the 2025 Outlander PHEV gets the same 14.79-gallon fuel tank as the previous model year, so the total driving range is 420 miles on the EPA cycle, which is a little stricter than the WLTP procedure and usually yields more conservative range figures.

The electrically assisted Outlander is powered by a 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine and two electric motors for a combined output of 248 horsepower.

Gallery: 2025 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV

Source: Mitsubishi

Charging the high-voltage battery can be done through either a Type 2 port from a Level 1 or Level 2 charger, or a CHAdeMO DC fast charging port. The latter can funnel up to 50 kW of power to the battery for a top-up to 80% state of charge in 38 minutes–the same as on the 2024 model. When plugged into a 120-volt household socket, fully charging the battery takes about 16 hours, while a 240-volt outlet will cut that time to six and a half hours.

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Just about everything is the same on the 2025 Outlander PHEV, despite its pure combustion counterpart getting some styling updates and a fancier Yamaha sound system. For 2025, the biggest changes on the Outlander PHEV are that heated front seats are standard on all models, while the midrange SEL trim gets a heated steering wheel and panoramic sunroof.

Pricing for the 2025 Mitsubishi Outlander starts at $42,565 including destination and three obligatory options: a tonneau cover, the Welcome Package and carpet floor mats.