In a year that will be talked about for decades, 2025 marked the moment plug-in electrified vehicles truly made themselves at home in the competitive Australian ute market. In a segment long dominated by diesel-burning workhorses—where names like HiLux and Ranger have been etched into

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  • Iconoclast@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    Perhaps one without back seats and a longer bed? No? Well I’ll keep dieseling around then.

    • stylusmobilus@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      That might come. People such as yourself will still go the diesel, as you say.

      They’ve successfully aimed this at tradies.

        • stylusmobilus@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          Well, then you’ll always have the diesel, hopefully.

          It’d be interesting to see how they hold up after 3 or 4 years of corrugated outback roads.