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As EV demand stalls at least temporarily in Australia and plug-in hybrid interest rises, Chery has announced it will roll-out its advanced PHEV tech on the 2025 Chery Tiggo 7 Pro and Tiggo 8 Pro as well as models in its new premium Jaecoo brand.
As competition in the small all-electric SUV segment superheats Chinese brand Chery has announced its renamed 2025 Chery E5 is now thousands cheaper. Now priced from $39,990 plus on-road costs (ORCs) – $3000 less than before – the new Chery E5 was originally launched less than 12 months ago as the Chery Omoda E5.
Chery is the latest Chinese brand to unveil an electrified dual cab ute and its looking good to come to Australia. The Himla yes Himla was unveiled this week at the Shanghai motor show as part of a huge model offensive by the Chery group’s various divisions. 2025 Chery Himla. 2025 Chery Himla.
Chery will be the next Chinese brand to attempt to disrupt the Australian auto market, with the car maker following established brands like MG and Great Wall – as well as newcomers like BYD – to our market with the Chery Omoda 5 PHEV.
Chery’s rough and ready iCar 4×4 electric brand has been locked-in for an Australian debut. Later on, iCar will even hatch a compact 4×4 ute, says Autocar, which also revealed the Chery-owned car-maker will be forced to rename itself ‘iCaur’ because Apple owns the trademark for iCar. 2025 iCar V23.
Chery Automobile Co., Chery revealed the EXEED TX—a compact SUV which will be the first model offered in Europe—in pre-production form at the 2017 IAA Frankfurt International Motor Show. The first configuration to go on sale will be an ultra-low emission PHEV variant. The EXEED TX PHEV will combine a 110 kW 1.5-liter
The BYD Sealion 8 has been locked in for an Australian debut in the first quarter of 2026 as the Chinese brand’s first seven-seat SUV. BYD’s flagship plug-in hybrid powered three-row SUV will go head-to-head with the Kia Sorento PHEV and the Mazda CX-80 PHEV. While the DM-I can only manage an 8.6
The ambitious ChineseChery brand will launch its first electric vehicle in Australia when the Omoda E5 SUV arrives mid-year. Chery has confirmed there will be two E5 specifications – Standard and Premium. Chery has confirmed there will be two E5 specifications – Standard and Premium. 2024 Chery Omoda E5.
Pike Research forecasts that the United States will be the leading market for PHEVs, with more than 610,000 vehicles sold over the next five years. China, with its strong push for the production of electric vehicles, will be a close second with just over 540,000 PHEVs sold during the same period, according to the report. billion.
Watch out BYD Sealion 6, theres a Chinese plug-in hybrid rival coming in March 2025 intending to capitalise on your success. Its called the Jaecoo J7 PHEV SHS and it will be part of the export-focussed subsidiary of Cherys Australian launch line-up in March 2025. 2025 Jaecoo J7 PHEV. 2025 Jaecoo J7 PHEV.
Chinese state-owned automaker Chery is reportedly still looking to the United States as a possible point of expansion. Chery had plans to break into our market back in 2005 and supposedly had things lined up to import a limited supply of its Exeed crossover in 2020 before the world went haywire. Today is not like before.
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BYD the EV sales winner Chinese brand BYD was a comfortable EV sales winner in April with 1639 of its 3202 sales pure battery electric vehicles (the rest were plug-in hybrids ). The Chinese giant sold more than twice as many EVs as second placed Kia on 751 cars with MG in third (594). percent versus 6.4 READ MORE: Electric overload!
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Is Haval soon to reveal a full electric small/medium SUV ready to challenge Chinese EV cheapies like the BYD Atto 3, Geely EX5, MG S5 EV and Chery Omoda E5? The brand was keen for journalists to explore this pre-production model, and have short test drives around a Chinese car park. Basically, the size many Aussies want.
BYD’s Australian importer has declared itself ready and able to withstand the pressure of more than a dozen new Chinese brands arriving in Australia keen to emulate its sales and steal its market share. Since then the Chinese brand has added the Dolphin mini-car , Seal sedan and Sealion plug-in hybrid medium SUV.
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Autovista24 special content editor Phil Curry examines the top-performing battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs). Meanwhile, the global PHEV market jumped by 34% year on year with 567,986 deliveries. The PHEV market saw growth of 30.9% Meanwhile, its PHEV deliveries made up only 5.4% of PHEV totals.
Plugin vehicles are all the rage in China, having scored a record 413,000 registrations in November, up 106% year over year (YoY). This pulls the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over to 2.7 million units, and with December set to be another record month (half a million units?), we should have over 3 million registrations by […].
Plugin vehicles are all the rage in China, having scored 325,000 registrations in October, up 113% year over year (YoY). That’s an especially impressive performance when we consider that the overall market was down 5%. This pulls the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over to 2.3
With plugin registrations going up 133%, the highest monthly growth rate in over 8 years, with both technologies running hot, with BEVs jumping 125%, to 289.000 units, while PHEVs jumped 155%, to a 125.000 units. The BEV/PHEV breakdown stayed more or less the same, with the current standing at 68% BEV, 32% PHEV.
Plugin vehicles continue to be all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Plugin hybrids (PHEVs) surged 174% year over year (YoY). Plugins got back into the fast lane in July, growing 112% year over year (YoY). They scored over 505,000 registrations last month. They reached a record 137,000 registrations in July.
Plugin vehicles continue to be all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Plugin hybrids (PHEVs) surged 179% year over year (YoY). Plugins got back into the fast lane, growing 132% year over year (YoY). They scored over 565,000 registrations in June, a new record. They reached a record 124,000 registrations in June.
After the December sales peak, one would expect a sales hangover in January, only … it didn’t happened, as the market had some 372,000 passenger new energy vehicle registrations, an impressive 115% jump year over year (YoY)! As a consequence of this, the plugin vehicle (PEV) share started the year at a high 17% (13% […].
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Despite a drop in the overall Chinese auto market, plugin vehicles continue to rise. Plugin hybrids (PHEVs) jumped 88% year over year (YoY). They grew 50% year over year (YoY) in November. They scored over 625,000 registrations last month, their second best month ever, only behind last September when they hit 636,000 registrations.
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Full electric cars accounted for 22% of new car sales in the Chinese market last month! Plugin vehicles continue to be all the rage in the Chinese auto market. They grew 75% year over year (YoY) in October.
Registrations of EVs , including battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) set a new record in China in September. BEVs were up 29% in September, to around 644,000 units, while PHEVs jumped 97% to around 479,000 units. This was the fourth month in a row that PHEVs broke their volume record.
While BEVs were a hot item last month, jumping 81%, to a record 407.000 units, PHEVs were even hooter, shooting 205% in December, allowing them to end the year with 31% of plugin sales, up 5% from the 26% of 2019, giving credit to those that say that PHEVs will still be around for a while. But more on that later.
BEV), almost one percent increase over the 2019 result of 5.5%, and the same result the market had at the time of the last subsidy change, in the summer of 2019, so one can say that the Chinese EV market took 18 months to recover from impact of the subsidy change. In the largest automotive market in the World.
Combined global sales of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) increased 33% year on year in September. Meanwhile, PHEVs recorded exceptional growth of 57%, reaching over 600,000 units. The Chery Fengyun T9 PHEV hit 11,156 sales in its fourth month on the market.
It primarily does that via a clever PHEV system, which subordinates the petrol engine to its two electric motors to try and make it run on electricity as much as possible. As if anyone needed more reminding, it’s another example of the immense capability of the Chinese auto industry. The incredible ambition of the Chinese brands.
Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Plugins scored over 658,000 sales last month, up 31% year over year (YoY). That pulled the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over 3.9 million units. Share-wise, with July showing another great performance, plugin vehicles hit 38% market share!
Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Even in the slowest month of the year, plugins scored 291,000 registrations, up 176% year over year (YoY). This pulls the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over 665,000 units, and with March set to be another strong month (400,000 units?), we should have over 1 million […].
Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Plugins scored over 750,000 sales last month, up 36% year over year (YoY) and a new record. That pulled the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over 4.6 million units. Share-wise, with August showing another great performance, plugin vehicles hit 39% market share!
Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Plugins scored more than 776,000 sales last month, up 22% year over year (YoY), which is this market’s second record month in a row. And expect the last quarter of the month to continue this record streak. The September sales pulled the year-to-date (YTD) […]
Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Plugins scored over half a million sales last month, up 93% year over year (YoY). That pulled the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over 1.9 million units. Share-wise, with April showing another great performance, plugin vehicles hit 35% market share!
Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Plugins scored over half a million sales last month, up 23% year over year (YoY), pulling the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over 1.3 million units. Share-wise, with March showing another great performance, plugin vehicles hit 34% market share!
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