Hyundai Australia is standing by inside combustion engines, even with ever-tightening emissions caps below the Federal Authorities’s New Automobile Emissions Commonplace (NVES) making use of stress.
Talking with CarExpert on the launch of the all-new Elexio electrical SUV, Hyundai Australia chief working officer Gavin Donaldson mentioned “we cannot take away ICE out of (our vary)” anytime quickly.
“ICE remains to be going to play an necessary a part of our product portfolio. We simply see we have now larger alternative to promote extra hybrids. We’re additionally transitioning to the place the demand is,” Mr Donaldson mentioned of Hyundai’s strategic concentrate on hybrids (HEVs) for the short-term.
“We nonetheless have ICE out there in Kona, Tucson and Santa Fehowever we’re seeing larger demand for hybrid,” he added.
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Mr Donaldson’s feedback come after his media deal with on the Elexio launch confirmed the Korean model’s plans to hone in on its hybrid merchandise over the approaching 12-18 months.
Hyundai’s hybrid gross sales as a complete had been up 92.8 per cent in 2025 to twenty-eight,851 items, firmly inserting the Korean model in second place for HEV gross sales behind main Toyota (115,953) and forward of China’s GWM (11,198).
Main the cost had been the mid-size Tucson (10,556) and Kona (10,407) SUVs, with hybrid variants accounting for 52.4 and 45.7 per cent share of total gross sales throughout every nameplate, respectively.
The Tucson and Kona had been Australia’s fourth- and fifth-favourite hybrids on the gross sales charts in 2025, behind the Toyota RAV4, Corolla and Corolla Cross – which all moved to hybrid-only lineups within the final 18 months.
Hyundai’s bigger Santa Fe managed 81.8 per cent hybrid share at 5125 items for the 12 months, and was the subsequent non-Toyota mannequin within the Prime 10 best-selling hybrids.
Earlier this week, the Australian Authorities launched the primary outcomes below its New Automobile Effectivity Commonplace (NVES)with round two-thirds of manufacturers beating their emissions targets.
Sort 1 autos (passenger automobiles and SUVs) had a headline restrict of 141g/km of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for 2025, with Sort 2 autos – together with utes, vans, and huge off-road SUVs just like the Ford Everest – having a headline restrict of 210g/km.
Hyundai Motor Firm posted an ‘interim emissions worth’ of 84,563 items, that means it will have to commerce credit score items with one other firm by December 31, 2027 or threat a penalty in February 2028 of $50 multiplied by their ultimate emissions worth.
Mr Donaldson attributed the corporate’s NVES efficiency to its standard N Division high-performance merchandise, which other than the electrical Ioniq 5 N are powered by high-performance, high-emitting petrol engines which submit figures properly above the headline CO2 caps.
Nonetheless, the Korean model’s COO has dedicated to its halo efficiency merchandise, indicating elevated hybrid and EV gross sales are key to balancing out its NVES penalties.
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