Jaecoo Confirms new PHEV SUV
Jaecoo is the latest Chinese brand announced for Australia, with the mid-sized J7 SUV due in early 2025.
The Australian new car market may soon need the equivalent of air-traffic control, such is the volume of new Chinese brands arriving in 2025, with another newly announced nameplate, Jaecoo, set to land in early 2025.
Described as a “rugged urban SUV brand,” Jaecoo only made its global debut at Auto Shanghai in 2023 where it was launched as a sub-division of Chery International.
Chery itself was re-established in Australia in 2023 after an initial unsuccessful foray here between 2011 and 2015.
The brand is now well entrenched here, having sold 10,718 new vehicles in the 11 months to November 2024. That’s well behind the likes of BYD (18,465), MG (46,374) and GWM (38,709), but the addition of the Jaecoo brand to its portfolio will provide a stronger presence in 2025.
The first new model from Jaecoo will be the J7.
A stylish looking mid-sized SUV, it will be offered with the choice of a turbocharged petrol four-cylinder engine in 2WD and 4WD guise, and with what Jaecoo describes as a “cutting-edge SHS (Super Hybrid System).”
The plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) combines a 1.5-litre four-cylinder petrol engine with what Jaecoo calls a Stepless Electric Hybrid DHT System, and a high-performance hybrid battery.
The transmission offers four driving modes – pure electric, series, parallel, and energy recovery – for an electric range of 90km (WLTP), and a claimed combined range of 1,200km.
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The J7 will be also available in conventional ICE-powered 2WD and AWD versions, powered by a turbocharged 1.6-litre petrol engine producing 137kW/275Nm torque, driving through a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission.
Equipped with Jaecoo’s All Road Drive Intelligent System (ARDIS), the J7 offers up to seven different drive modes and is claimed to seat five adults in a generously equipped cabin.
Among the specifications are power-adjustable front seats, a 14.8-inch vertically oriented touchscreen, an electric tailgate, 360-degree panoramic camera system, wireless smartphone charging, 19-inch alloy wheels, LED headlamps, front foglamps, automatic windscreen wipers, eight airbags (including a driver’s knee airbag), and a range of advanced driver assistance safety features.
Other Jaecoo models likely to follow the J7 include the compact J5 SUV and the larger J8 SUV, although these models remain unconfirmed at this stage.
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