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2025 GWM Cannon Alpha PHEV review: plus-sized plug-in dual cab on Aussie soil

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Have you been waiting with bated breath for plug-in hybrid dual cabs? Well you’re in luck, my friend, for not only are we getting the Ford Ranger and BYD Shark utes in PHEV form in a couple of months, GWM has locked in a plug-in version of its Cannon Alpha pickup for Australia, complete with 110km of EV range.

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2024 BYD Shark revealed: Plug-in petrol dual-cab wants to decimate diesel

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The 2024 BYD Shark has been revealed without camouflage, with the plug-in petrol dual cab’s launch timing now officially revealed. But in the lead-up to that event, BYD has given us our first proper look at its PHEV ute, with the Shark pictured off-road as part of the promotion for its launch. litre turbo or 2.0-litre

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The new breed of dual-cab ute: 2025 BYD Shark 6 PHEV to hunt down Ford Ranger and Toyota HiLux from next month – but can it convince you to abandon diesel?

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The 2025 BYD Shark 6 is now just weeks away from launching in Australia, when it will become the first plug-in hybrid ute available in our market when it’s goes on sale next month on October 29. That’s a big deal in the diesel-dominated world of utes, which means the plug-in petrol load lugger has its work cut out for it.

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2025 BYD Shark 6 review: Can the first PHEV ute take the workhorse fight to the Ford Ranger, Toyota Hilux?

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Instead of a grumbly diesel engine and some initial laziness as a turbo spins up the Shark 6 eases away near silently – and with the sort of low speed pull that electric motors do so well. BYD Shark 6 has a turbo petrol engine and two electric motors. The BYD Shark 6 does ute very differently.

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Plug-in frenzy! GWM announces PHEV Haval H6GT, Cannon Alpha ute and H6 SUV for Australia to target Toyota’s hybrid supremacy

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GWM Australia has announced it has pulled the trigger on a raft of all-new vehicles to arrive in 2025 including at least two new advanced plug-in hybrids. The biggest news is those plug-in hybrids will power both the Haval H6GT and the beefy Cannon Alpha Hi4T ute (pictured above). four-cylinder turbo petrol drinks at a rate of 9.3L/100km.

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2024 GWM Tank 700 PHEV review: 385kW/800Nm 4×4 is a rapid plug-in Toyota LandCruiser and Nissan Patrol rival

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The GWM Tank 700 Hi4-T may be a plug-in hybrid, but it’s hardly a poster child for green motoring. This Chinese luxury 4×4 weighs in at a morbidly obese 3110kg, is longer than a Toyota LandCruiser 300 Series, and, thanks to its twin-turbo V6 petrol/electric motor combo, delivers a beastly 386kW and 800Nm.

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Can Mitsubishi’s plug-in Pajero take down the LandCruiser Prado and Ford Everest? Reborn icon would ditch the diesel and embrace electrification

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Mitsubishi says work has begun on a new large SUV that would likely ditch diesel and lean on the company’s plug-in hybrid know-how, which could also mean the triumphant return of one of the brand’s most iconic nameplates. So there may be an evolution of mild-hybrid, plug-in hybrid and even BEV in that mix.”

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