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    Australia's best-selling PHEVs halfway through 2025: BYD dominates

    BYD has quickly gained a stranglehold on the Australian PHEV market, accounting for 58 per cent of all the PHEVs delivered so far this year.

    William Stopford

    William Stopford

    News Editor

    William Stopford

    William Stopford

    News Editor

    Despite a long history producing plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs), BYD only started selling them in Australia in 2024 – and already it’s far and away the market leader.

    In the first half of 2025, total PHEV deliveries in Australia were up 210.2 per cent on the first six months of 2024, to 25,613 – that’s sales growth, if not outright sales volume, that outpaces even hybrids (up 14.9 per cent).

    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.

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    In the first half of 2025, BYD alone delivered 14,799 PHEVs, well ahead of stalwart Mitsubishi which was a distant second with 3690 deliveries.

    Mitsubishi is rolling out an updated Outlander PHEV, while its Eclipse Cross PHEV is in runout. But for a company that was the first to launch a PHEV SUV in Australia all the way back in 2013, it has been rapidly overtaken by BYD.

    BYD has actually been in the PHEV game longer than Mitsubishi, launching its first such model back in 2008 in China. Mitsubishi revealed its first production PHEV, based on the third-generation Outlander, in 2012.

    Below is a Flourish chart showing all the brands selling PHEVs in Australia, and their total deliveries in the first half of 2025. We’ve also included the Leapmotor C10, which is technically classified as an extended-range electric vehicle (EREV).

    Both of BYD’s two PHEVs in Australia alone outsold Mitsubishi’s two-model PHEV lineup.

    The Shark 6 ute has proved a huge success for BYD, and so far this year it’s not only the best-selling PHEV in Australia but the 12th best-selling vehicle overall.

    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 position, and its sales should get a boost with the introduction of a PHEV powertrain in the ‘standard’ body, joining the Haval H6 GT PHEV ‘coupe SUV’ launched earlier this year.

    Behind this sit Mazda’s CX-60 and CX-80 SUVs. The Japanese brand is currently Australia’s third largest PHEV brand by sales volume.

    A new name on these sales charts is Jaecoo, with its first (and thus far only) PHEV, the J7 SHS SUV.

    Jaecoo was the 10th best-selling PHEV brand, and its J7 was the 10th best-selling PHEV.

    Below is a chart showing total delivery figures by model for the first half of 2025.

    BYD only sells PHEV versions of its Sealion 6 and Shark 6; likewise BMW with its XM.

    However, where a brand also offers non-PHEV versions of a model, we’ve detailed below the total percentage of sales that PHEV variants account for.

    ModelTotal deliveriesTotal PHEV deliveriesPHEV percentage
    Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe22100.0%
    Peugeot 50822100.0%
    Bentley Continental302996.7%
    Bentley Flying Spur6583.3%
    Ferrari coupe/convertible range855767.1%
    Peugeot 408582644.8%
    Jaecoo J762727543.9%
    Ford Escape5240.0%
    Volvo XC9037014639.5%
    Leapmotor C1030911938.5%
    BMW 5 Series1736537.6%
    Mazda CX-80206575636.6%
    McLaren Artura391435.9%
    Porsche Panamera592033.9%
    Lamborghini Revuelto581932.8%
    Cupra Leon1284031.3%
    Volkswagen Touareg47214530.7%
    Mazda CX-60282176527.1%
    Mitsubishi Outlander11399296126.0%
    Porsche Cayenne3248325.6%
    Alfa Romeo Tonale962324.0%
    Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross326272922.3%
    Cupra Formentor90920122.1%
    GWM Cannon Alpha106321320.0%
    Mercedes-Benz C-Class81616019.6%
    Jeep Compass1152219.1%
    BMW X3244144518.2%
    Jaguar F-Pace1993618.1%
    Range Rover2244017.9%
    Range Rover Evoque3325917.8%
    Mercedes-Benz E-Class2975217.5%
    GWM Haval H66909117217.0%
    Porsche Cayenne Coupe4817816.2%
    Lexus RX100814914.8%
    Audi Q5165923414.1%
    Land Rover Discovery Sport2022612.9%
    Volvo XC6085710712.5%
    Range Rover Sport123014211.5%
    Audi Q82182511.5%
    Volvo S6037410.8%
    Range Rover Velar197178.6%
    Kia Sorento51654007.7%
    Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupe805617.6%
    MG HS20821547.4%
    Lexus NX30802277.4%
    BMW X519981397.0%
    Land Rover Defender1968985.0%
    Jeep Grand Cherokee504183.6%
    Mercedes-Benz GLC2145673.1%
    Mercedes-AMG GT6822.9%
    Peugeot 3085112.0%
    Ford Ranger283111180.4%

    MORE: Australia’s best-selling hybrids halfway through 2025 MORE: Australia’s best-selling EVs in the first half of 2025 MORE: VFACTS: Australia’s best-selling brands and models in the first half of 2025

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    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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