Australia's best-selling hybrids in 2025 revealed – CarExpert
Sales of new hybrid vehicles increased again in 2025, but while Toyota remained the top hybrid brand, it only grew its sales modestly.
William Stopford
News Editor
William Stopford
News Editor
Hybrid vehicle sales in Australia increased by 15.3 per cent year-on-year in 2025, with a total of 199,133 reaching customers.
That was slightly higher growth than posted by electric vehicles (up 13.1 per cent to 103,269 units) but not as steep as the growth of plug-in hybrid sales (up 130.9 per cent to 53,484 units).
Chery and KGM launched their first hybrids in 2025, and brands like Hyundai and MG expanded their hybrid lineups.
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This influx of new product helped drive an increase in hybrid sales, as established players like Toyota and GWM either remained flat or slid backwards.
Toyota – now Australia’s best-selling auto brand for 23 consecutive years – also remained our market’s best-selling hybrid brand in 2025, offering the three top-selling hybrid models.
A total of 48.6 per cent of the 239,863 Toyotas delivered in 2025 – or 115,953 in total – were hybrids, up incrementally from 47.9 per cent and 115,477 units in 2024.
While the overall hybrid market was up by 15.3 per cent, sales of hybrid Toyotas only rose by 0.4 per cent.
Hyundai once again sat in second place, but sales of its hybrid vehicles rose 92.8 per cent to 28,851 units. GWM remained in third place but saw its hybrid sales drop 6.5 per cent to 11,198 units.
The Toyota RAV4 was Australia’s best-selling hybrid again, and the second-best selling model overall.
Toyota not only had the three top-selling hybrids in Australia, it also had six of the top 10 best-selling hybrids.
Hyundai’s Tucson and Kona SUVs cracked the top five, and indeed everything in the top 10 bar the 10th-place Kia Sportage was either a Toyota or Hyundai.
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William Stopford is an automotive journalist with a passion for mainstream cars, automotive history and overseas auto markets.
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