Regardless of a protracted historical past producing plug-in hybrid autos (PHEVs), BYD solely began promoting them in Australia in 2024 – and already it’s far and away the market chief.
Within the first half of 2025, whole PHEV deliveries in Australia had been up 210.2 per cent on the primary six months of 2024, to 25,613 – that’s gross sales development, if not outright gross sales quantity, that outpaces even hybrids (up 14.9 per cent).
Which means that of the full of 624,130 new autos delivered in Australia in the course of the first six months of 2025, 15 per cent had been hybrids, 7.6 per cent had been EVs, and 4.1 per cent had been PHEVs.
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Within the first half of 2025, BYD alone delivered 14,799 PHEVs, properly forward of stalwart Mitsubishi which was a distant second with 3690 deliveries.
Mitsubishi is rolling out an up to date Outlander PHEV, whereas its Eclipse Cross PHEV is in runout. However for an organization that was the primary to launch a PHEV SUV in Australia all the way in which again in 2013, it has been quickly overtaken by BYD.
BYD has really been within the PHEV recreation longer than Mitsubishi, launching its first such mannequin again in 2008 in China. Mitsubishi revealed its first manufacturing PHEV, based mostly on the third-generation Outlander, in 2012.
Under is a Flourish chart exhibiting all of the manufacturers promoting PHEVs in Australia, and their whole deliveries within the first half of 2025. We’ve additionally included the Leapmotor C10, which is technically categorised as an extended-range electrical automobile (EREV).
Each of BYD’s two PHEVs in Australia alone outsold Mitsubishi’s two-model PHEV lineup.
The Shark 6 ute has proved an enormous success for BYD, and to date this 12 months it’s not solely the best-selling PHEV in Australia however the twelfth best-selling automobile general.
Sitting in second is the Sealion 6 mid-size SUV, an arch-rival for the Outlander PHEV that sits in third place.
The GWM Haval H6 took fourth place, and its gross sales ought to get a lift with the introduction of a PHEV powertrain within the ‘normal’ physique, becoming a member of the Haval H6 GT PHEV ‘coupe SUV’ launched earlier this 12 months.
Behind this sit Mazda’s CX-60 and CX-80 SUVs. The Japanese model is presently Australia’s third largest PHEV model by gross sales quantity.
A brand new identify on these gross sales charts is Jaecoo, with its first (and to this point solely) PHEV, the J7 SHS SUV.
Jaecoo was the tenth best-selling PHEV model, and its J7 was the tenth best-selling PHEV.
Under is a chart exhibiting whole supply figures by mannequin for the primary half of 2025.
BYD solely sells PHEV variations of its Sealion 6 and Shark 6; likewise BMW with its XM.
Nonetheless, the place a model additionally affords non-PHEV variations of a mannequin, we’ve detailed beneath the full proportion of gross sales that PHEV variants account for.
| Mannequin | Whole deliveries | Whole PHEV deliveries | PHEV proportion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe | 2 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Peugeot 508 | 2 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Bentley Continental | 30 | 29 | 96.7% |
| Bentley Flying Spur | 6 | 5 | 83.3% |
| Ferrari coupe/convertible vary | 85 | 57 | 67.1% |
| Peugeot 408 | 58 | 26 | 44.8% |
| Jaecoo J7 | 627 | 275 | 43.9% |
| Ford Escape | 5 | 2 | 40.0% |
| Volvo XC90 | 370 | 146 | 39.5% |
| Leapmotor C10 | 309 | 119 | 38.5% |
| BMW 5 Collection | 173 | 65 | 37.6% |
| Mazda CX-80 | 2065 | 756 | 36.6% |
| McLaren Artura | 39 | 14 | 35.9% |
| Porsche Panamera | 59 | 20 | 33.9% |
| Lamborghini Revuelto | 58 | 19 | 32.8% |
| Cupra Leon | 128 | 40 | 31.3% |
| Volkswagen Touareg | 472 | 145 | 30.7% |
| Mazda CX-60 | 2821 | 765 | 27.1% |
| Mitsubishi Outlander | 11399 | 2961 | 26.0% |
| Porsche Cayenne | 324 | 83 | 25.6% |
| Alfa Romeo Tonale | 96 | 23 | 24.0% |
| Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross | 3262 | 729 | 22.3% |
| Cupra Formentor | 909 | 201 | 22.1% |
| GWM Cannon Alpha | 1063 | 213 | 20.0% |
| Mercedes-Benz C-Class | 816 | 160 | 19.6% |
| Jeep Compass | 115 | 22 | 19.1% |
| BMW X3 | 2441 | 445 | 18.2% |
| Jaguar F-Tempo | 199 | 36 | 18.1% |
| Vary Rover | 224 | 40 | 17.9% |
| Vary Rover Evoque | 332 | 59 | 17.8% |
| Mercedes-Benz E-Class | 297 | 52 | 17.5% |
| GWM Haval H6 | 6909 | 1172 | 17.0% |
| Porsche Cayenne Coupe | 481 | 78 | 16.2% |
| Lexus RX | 1008 | 149 | 14.8% |
| Audi Q5 | 1659 | 234 | 14.1% |
| Land Rover Discovery Sport | 202 | 26 | 12.9% |
| Volvo XC60 | 857 | 107 | 12.5% |
| Vary Rover Sport | 1230 | 142 | 11.5% |
| Audi Q8 | 218 | 25 | 11.5% |
| Volvo S60 | 37 | 4 | 10.8% |
| Vary Rover Velar | 197 | 17 | 8.6% |
| Kia Sorento | 5165 | 400 | 7.7% |
| Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupe | 805 | 61 | 7.6% |
| MG HS | 2082 | 154 | 7.4% |
| Lexus NX | 3080 | 227 | 7.4% |
| BMW X5 | 1998 | 139 | 7.0% |
| Land Rover Defender | 1968 | 98 | 5.0% |
| Jeep Grand Cherokee | 504 | 18 | 3.6% |
| Mercedes-Benz GLC | 2145 | 67 | 3.1% |
| Mercedes-AMG GT | 68 | 2 | 2.9% |
| Peugeot 308 | 51 | 1 | 2.0% |
| Ford Ranger | 28311 | 118 | 0.4% |
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