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Electrical automobiles (EVs) will nonetheless solely make up lower than a 3rd of all new car gross sales in Australia within the subsequent 5 years, in keeping with the largest automobile model on our market.
Talking at a media occasion for the 2026 Toyota LandCruiser Hybrid, Toyota Australia’s vice chairman of gross sales, advertising and marketing and franchise operations, Sean Hanley, stated EV gross sales aren’t about to increase.
“Do we expect EVs will play a task? 100 per cent, however they’re not going to be 80 per cent of the market in three to 5 years,” stated Mr Hanley.
“In my view, perhaps 30 [per cent], perhaps a bit extra, however that’s about the place it’ll sit.”
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The feedback got here forward of the Australian federal authorities’s local weather goal announcement, which analysts have recommended requires 50 per cent of all new car gross sales to be EVs by 2035.
Toyota – each globally and in Australia – has adopted what it calls a ‘multi-pathway’ method to electrification, providing a mixture of inner combustion, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, battery-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell powertrains.
The automaker was considered one of few manufacturers to not decide to a good portion of its complete gross sales being EVs within the early 2020s.
Most automobile corporations have since pulled again on earlier EV ambitions after gross sales didn’t take off as strongly as anticipated.
“Prospects are nonetheless going to wish to tow vans, they’re nonetheless going to have their automobiles for leisure, they nonetheless want them for mining, agriculture and different purposes,” Mr Hanley stated.
“This [LandCruiser Hybrid] goes to suit precisely into that spot … an additional dedication and funding by Toyota in its multi-pathway technique, know-how.”
In Australia, 7.6 per cent of all new car gross sales within the first half of 2025 had been EVs, in comparison with 7.4 per cent for the total yr in 2024 and seven.2 per cent in 2023.
Toyota presently has just one EV in native showrooms, the RAV4-sized bZ4X SUV – whereas its Lexus model affords the RZ based mostly on the identical platform – however has taken full benefit of a increase in hybrid reputation.
It solely affords hybrid powertrains on most of its ‘city’ targeted fashions, together with its best-selling RAV4, dropping petrol-only variations in 2024.
In Australia, hybrid gross sales skyrocketed by 76 per cent in 2024 (not together with plug-in hybrids), making up 14 per cent of all new automobile gross sales, with that share persevering with within the first six months of 2025.
The LandCruiser Hybrid – the primary hybrid for the 300 Sequence – has been confirmed for Australia in two mannequin grades and is deliberate for a March 2026 showroom arrival.
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