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    Australia's best-selling hybrids halfway through 2025

    Toyota remains far and away Australia's hybrid sales leader, with Hyundai a distant second and GWM an even more distant third.

    William Stopford

    William Stopford

    News Editor

    William Stopford

    William Stopford

    News Editor

    Toyota is still by far Australia’s hybrid vehicle market leader, with just one of its hybrids alone – the RAV4 – outselling the number two and three hybrid auto brands so far this year.

    Only one other brand cracked five-digit hybrid deliveries in the first half of 2025, according to VFACTS sales data, and that was Hyundai.

    There are far fewer hybrid vehicles on sale in Australia than electric vehicles (EVs), but hybrids account for a larger share of new-car sales overall.

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    A total of 93,746 hybrids (HEVs) were delivered during the first half of 2025, compared with 25,613 plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) and 47,245 EVs.

    This means that of the total of 624,130 new vehicles delivered in Australia during the first six months of 2025, 15 per cent were hybrids, 7.6 per cent were EVs, and 4.1 per cent were PHEVs.

    Hybrid sales were up 14.9 per cent compared with the first half of 2024.

    Brands

    Below is a chart listing all the brands that sell hybrids in Australia.

    Note this doesn’t include PHEVs or mild-hybrids, though it does include Nissan’s e-Power vehicles.

    Models

    Below is a chart listing all the hybrid models offered in Australia.

    A total of eight of the top 10 best-selling hybrids were produced by Toyota Motor Corporation, with the other two being Hyundais.

    The GWM Tank 500, Honda Accord, Lexus LM, Toyota C-HR and Toyota Tundra are exclusively offered with hybrid power.

    Where a model line also includes other powertrain types, we’ve calculated the percentage of sales the hybrid variants account for.

    ModelTotal deliveriesTotal hybrid deliveriesHybrid percentage
    Toyota RAV4240342395699.7%
    Toyota Corolla Cross6288626499.6%
    Toyota Camry4259423899.5%
    Lexus ES43943498.9%
    Toyota Corolla9359910697.3%
    Lexus UX53151496.8%
    Lexus LBX1222116595.3%
    Toyota Kluger4611437294.8%
    Hyundai Santa Fe3212260080.9%
    Kia Niro30924779.9%
    Lexus NX3080234576.1%
    Honda Civic44232974.4%
    Toyota Yaris Cross5887437974.4%
    Toyota Yaris1524110572.5%
    Lexus RX100872271.6%
    Honda HR-V2403150162.5%
    Lexus LS6350.0%
    Hyundai Tucson10272508649.5%
    Hyundai Kona11241479942.7%
    Honda ZR-V194378840.6%
    GWM Haval H66909224132.4%
    GWM Cannon Alpha106333131.1%
    Honda CR-V322094529.3%
    Kia Sportage10558232022.0%
    Hyundai i305579121121.7%
    Kia Carnival5173111421.5%
    GWM Haval Jolion9029186420.6%
    Nissan Qashqai278357120.5%
    Nissan X-Trail8553167219.5%
    MG ZS10177186318.3%
    GWM Tank 300238642918.0%
    MG 3528681315.4%
    Kia Sorento516557211.1%
    Subaru Forester64956229.6%
    Subaru Crosstrek60024116.8%
    Lexus LC3326.1%

    There’s also a caveat with other Toyotas that are listed in the table above.

    All Toyota model lines available with a hybrid powertrain lost their standard petrol-powered variants last year, though evidently there was still some leftover stock of certain petrol-only Toyotas.

    The Toyota Yaris and Corolla tallies also include the GR Yaris and GR Corolla.

    Lexus has also discontinued petrol-only versions of models like the ES, due to their high hybrid take-up rates.

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    MORE: Australia’s best-selling EVs in the first half of 2025

    William Stopford

    William Stopford

    News Editor

    William Stopford

    News Editor

    William Stopford is an automotive journalist based in Brisbane, Australia. William is a Business/Journalism graduate from the Queensland University of Technology who loves to travel, briefly lived in the US, and has a particular interest in the American car industry.

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