Beyond the Status Quo: The top 12 reasons Chery Tiggo Super Hybrids are rewriting the rules for Australian drivers 

In 2025, more Australians are waking up to the benefits of hybrid vehicles. In 2024, hybrid sales rocketed 76 per cent on 2023 and in 2025, hybrids are up nearly 15 per cent again.  

Then comes the plug-in hybrid (PHEV), which is taking off in Australia with PHEV sales up 210 per cent year-to-date as of June 2025.  

Chery calls these Super Hybrids, as they eclipse conventional hybrids on running costs, efficiency and performance.  

Chery’s Super Hybrid Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8 SUVs offer up to 1200km of petrol-electric range and operate, effectively, as two cars in one. With up to 95km of EV-only range, you can drive your Chery family SUV like an EV during the week – with all the advantages of electric driving, including even lower running costs – but with the range and flexibility of a petrol engine when the open road beckons.  

With talk of hybrid sales on the up, Chery is experiencing a meteoric rise of its own. Chery sales doubled from 2023 to 2024 in Australia and are on track to double again in 2025, as more families buy into – and recommend – this impressive brand for themselves. Here at Drive, the Chery Tiggo 4 Pro was named Best Urban Car Under $30K at our 2025 Car of the Year awards.  

In this article, we give you the 12 reasons why Chery’s Super Hybrid SUVs are highlighting a plug-in revolution in Australia. 

Fancy driving from Sydney to Melbourne on one tank and one charge, with plenty leftover for exploring once you arrive? That’s the promise of both the Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8 Super Hybrids, which both offer up to 1200km of combined petrol-electric range. On a daily commute, that could mean potentially going weeks without needing to stop at a petrol station – something that always seems to happen when you’re already running late.  

Chery’s Super Hybrid system combines an efficient 1.5-litre turbo-petrol engine with a powerful, permanent-magnet-synchronous electric motor and onboard lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) battery. By plugging it in, the battery can be independently charged using home AC or a public DC fast charger – turning your Tiggo 8 into an electric vehicle for up to 95km (NEDC).   

Charge your car at home overnight and with an EV off-peak electricity plan, you could save a small fortune on petrol – even compared to the most frugal conventional hybrid SUVs. When it’s time to head to the beach, snow, or bush for the weekend, forget about range anxiety or looking up charging locations. Simply get in and go – and keep going after topping up at a petrol station

From $39,990 drive-away, the Chery Tiggo 7 Super Hybrid Urban is Australia’s most affordable PHEV. And as more Australians tackle a cost-of-living crunch, Chery is putting high-tech, safer and contemporary SUVs within reach of more people. The entire Chery range – including a seven-seat PHEV – comes in under $50,000 drive-away.  

Even the most expensive Chery model – the Tiggo 8 Super Hybrid Ultimate – is $49,990 drive-away, offering a comprehensive list of standard luxuries. At the other end of the scale, Chery is making new cars in Australia affordable again. The award-winning, $23,990 drive-away Tiggo 4 means more young drivers can access the safest-possible vehicle.

For anyone coming from an older car, sitting in something like a Chery Tiggo 8 will feel like time-travelling into the future. Sitting proudly in the dash is a super-sized, 15.6-inch high-resolution LCD infotainment touchscreen, with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. There’s a 10.25-inch digital instrument cluster and, on the Ultimate model grade, your speed is shown right in your line of sight in a head-up display. In what is a completely digital cockpit, every bit of information you need as the driver is shown bright, clear and within easy glance at all times.

If you told someone your car had massage seats, a 10-speaker Sony sound system, puddle exterior lighting, interior ambient lighting, acoustic glass and illuminated front scuff plates – as well as being a plug-in hybrid – they might guess you’d bought something with a German badge, costing at least six figures.  

But that’s what you get for $49,990 drive-away in the case of the seven-seat Tiggo 8 Super Hybrid Ultimate. With its smartly-styled SUVs and premium materials, Chery’s designers have been inspired by the world’s most prestigious car brands. For Australian families on a budget, that’s no bad thing at all.  

Every Chery comes with the latest Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) active safety technology, including autonomous emergency braking, adaptive cruise control and lane departure warning. What helps set Chery’s active safety systems apart is that they are constantly refined on local roads.  

Chery has made a significant investment in refining its safety systems for the Australian market through local testing and evaluation to ensure the optimum performance for customers.  

For anyone who enjoys driving, the discovery of Sport mode will be a delight to Chery owners. Put your Chery into Sport driving mode, and the turbo-electric powertrain is primed for maximum enjoyment.  

The Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8’s independent front and rear suspension is engineered for both ride comfort and handling. Super Hybrid variants offer three levels of regenerative braking, giving you an EV-like driving feel and reduced brake wear.

Whatever your day-to-day looks like – and throws at you – there’s an SUV from the Chery family to suit your life and needs. Every Chery model has clever storage compartments all around the interior. Generously-sized boots with 60/40 split-fold rear seats are ready for surfboards, bikes, prams, moving boxes, and flat-pack furniture runs – every item of every life stage. Every Chery SUV comes with two sets of outboard ISOFIX baby seat mounting points and three top tether anchorages. Some models come with seven seats, for picking up all the kids (and all their friends) in one trip.

Chery backs its cars’ engineering and durability with a seven-year, unlimited kilometre warranty. The high voltage battery in hybrid Cherys is covered for eight years and unlimited kilometres. Every new Chery comes with 12 months of Australia-wide, 24/7 roadside assistance, which is renewed – for up to seven years – every time your vehicle is serviced by a Chery dealer. Chery’s got your family budget covered with seven years of affordable, capped-price servicing.  

Owners can control key functions of new Chery models by simply saying ‘Hello, Chery’. Make phone calls, change the music, and open and close windows by simply asking. This is an underrated safety feature that keeps your eyes on the road and your head in the driving game. You can even assign your own custom voice prompts.  

Loving driving in EV mode? Your Super Hybrid can be fast-charged at a public DC charging point up to 40kW, topping up the battery from 30 to 80 per cent in around 20 minutes. Unlike the nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) batteries of many other hybrid cars, the Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) batteries of Chery’s Super Hybrid system can be recharged to 100 per cent capacity, every charge, without worrying about long-term degradation. LFP batteries also use fewer rare earth minerals than NMC equivalents.  

With 80 dealers around Australia – and more coming – Chery is here for the long haul. And this is no small, start-up automotive brand. Approaching 30 years since its founding in 1997, Chery is the leading automotive exporter from China.  

More Australians are buying and recommending Cherys themselves. In 2024, Chery sales more than doubled in Australia (from 5890 in 2023 to 12,603 in 2024). Sales are on track to more than double again in 2025, with 14,123 new Cherys already finding homes with Australians as of June 2025. 

Make your next new SUV a Super Hybrid and enjoy an EV and petrol car in the one package. Experience reduced running costs compared to a conventional hybrid SUV. See for yourself the space, style, safety, technology and value on offer from Chery, that so many Aussies are coming to know for themselves.