Australia’s best-selling hybrids and plug-in hybrids of 2022 & More Trending News

A file 121,000 ‘electrified’ automobiles have been offered in Australia in 2022 – throughout hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electrical energy – representing a rise of one-third in comparison with the earlier yr.

While electrical automobiles could seize most of the headlines, hybrid automobiles are extra fashionable in Australia, with 81,786 gross sales reported – in comparison with 33,410 electrical automobiles, and 5937 plug-in hybrids (PHEVs).

Tesla and Toyota stay the leaders of their respective segments – the previous representing nearly three in 5 electrical automobiles offered, and the latter practically 9 out of each 10 of hybrids offered.

As reported final week, if Toyota hybrid automobiles have been a standalone model, they’d be the sixth-best vendor total. The 2022 end result means Toyota has now offered a cumulative complete of greater than 315,000 hybrid automobiles in Australia over the previous 20 years.

While Toyota dominates the hybrid-car market – and accounts for the Top 7 best-selling hybrid automobiles domestically final yr – there’s a rising quantity of different makes and fashions becoming a member of the competitors.

That consists of standard hybrids and a variety of plug-in hybrids – of which practically 6000 have been offered final yr, up 76 per cent from the 3400 reported as offered final yr.

Here is a breakdown of the top-selling hybrid and plug-in hybrid automobiles in Australia final yr.

Data from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) experiences 81,786 standard hybrid (non-plug-in) automobiles have been offered in Australia in 2022 – up 16 per cent on the earlier yr, when 70,466 have been offered.

Toyota stays the market chief, promoting a file 72,815 hybrids – up 12 per cent on the prior yr, and accounting for 89 per cent of all standard hybrid automobiles offered.

Hybrids accounted for 31.5 per cent of Toyota automobiles reported as offered final yr – or 70 per cent of the ten mannequin strains on which hybrid energy was obtainable.

As a end result, the six best-selling hybrid automobiles in Australia final yr have been all Toyotas: the RAV4 (26,547 gross sales), Corolla (17,585), Kluger (8413), Camry (7654), Yaris Cross (6394), C-HR (3517), and newly-launched Corolla Cross (1984).

The seventh-placed automobile is constructed by Toyota’s luxurious model Lexus, with its NX mid-size SUV – attracting 1398 gross sales.

The top-selling standard hybrid automobile final yr not constructed by Toyota or Lexus was the GWM Haval H6 mid-size household SUV from China, with 1194 gross sales – adopted by the Kia Niro (1153), Subaru Forester (882), and smaller GWM Haval Jolion (755).

The automobile with the very best share of hybrid gross sales – excluding automobiles obtainable solely as hybrids – was the Toyota Camry sedan (80.2 per cent), forward of the Corolla Cross (77.4 per cent), RAV4 (76.2 per cent), Yaris Cross (75.8 per cent), and Kia Niro (72 per cent).

Among the Top 10, the proportion of Toyota RAV4, Corolla, Kluger, Yaris Cross SUV, Lexus NX, Kia Niro and Subaru Forester automobiles offered as hybrids elevated in 2022 in comparison with 2021 – whereas it declined for the Toyota Camry (83.9 to 80.2 per cent) and Toyota C-HR (46.7 to 44.1 per cent).

But as a result of C-HR gross sales elevated in 2022 over the prior yr, extra C-HR hybrids rolled out of showrooms than 2021 (3520 in 2022 vs 3070 in 2021, rounded). Camry Hybrid gross sales fell by about 1500 automobiles, as the entire Camry vary declined by 27 per cent.

It is value noting the hybrid gross sales shares listed within the desk apply to the full-year, for consistency – which might drawback some automobiles which added hybrid choices part-way by the yr.

These embody the Haval H6 (hybrid launched in April, true gross sales share 20 per cent), Haval Jolion (September, true share 17 per cent), Honda HR-V (March, 11 per cent), Hyundai Santa Fe (November, 31 per cent), and Honda Civic (43 per cent).

The gross sales knowledge additionally lists 113 Nissan X-Trail e-Power hybrids as offered – however these are believed to be vendor demonstrator or Nissan Australia media analysis automobiles, because the hybrid X-Trail is not formally due on sale for just a few extra weeks.

Sales of plug-in hybrid electrical automobiles (PHEVs) in Australia elevated by 76 per cent in 2022 in comparison with the prior yr, to 5937 automobiles – however they continue to be dwarfed by standard hybrid and purely-electric automobile gross sales.

The best-selling PHEV of 2022 was the MG HS Plus EV, with 1554 gross sales – practically 70 per cent greater than the second-placed Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross PHEV (926 gross sales, up 304 per cent)

In 2021, the PHEV gross sales chief was the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (592 gross sales), simply forward of the MG HS Plus EV (580 gross sales), which launched in March 2021.

But an absence of inventory between previous and new fashions (the latter occurring sale in August) – and a full yr of gross sales for the MG – noticed the Outlander PHEV fall to fifth, with 303 gross sales.

In third and fourth locations total have been the Volvo XC60 Recharge PHEV and Mercedes-Benz GLC300e – after the 2 automobiles tied for third place in 2021.

But whereas gross sales of the Volvo grew 92 per cent in 2022 in comparison with the prior yr, gross sales of the Mercedes-Benz solely rose by 18 per cent, as inventory of the outgoing mannequin dries up forward of the brand new mannequin subsequent yr – which will not provide a PHEV choice.

The fashions with the very best share of plug-in hybrid gross sales are the Volvo XC90 Recharge PHEV (21.2 per cent), Mini Countryman Hybrid (19.6 per cent), Volvo XC60 Recharge PHEV (17.1 per cent), Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross PHEV (15.5 per cent), and Peugeot 508 PHEV (14.6 per cent).

The BMW X3 xDrive30e (622 per cent) noticed the most important progress in gross sales in 2022 in comparison with the yr prior – nonetheless this progress got here from a low base, because the automobile solely went on sale just a few weeks earlier than the top of 2021.

Hybrid and plug-in hybrid automobiles coming to Australia this yr embody: