Jury still out on Volkswagen Amarok PHEV hybrid    

Volkswagen is yet to verify whether or no longer this may possibly elevate a trail-in hybrid Volkswagen Amarok ute, even after Ford has on the present time officially revealed its very-great linked Ranger with trail-in hybrid strength.

Announced on the present time with a 45km electrical-simplest fluctuate, the Ford Ranger PHEV is living to be launched in Australia by early 2025.

It’s constructed upon the 2.3-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine stumbled on in the new Aventura grade of the Amarok.

While it’s absolutely doable that Volkswagen may possibly presumably presumably note in the footsteps of the linked Ford Ranger and offer a PHEV variant as neatly, insiders in discovering previously described the Ranger’s PHEV electrical fluctuate as unsatisfactory.

The guidelines comes because the European market begins to poke in direction of a PHEV taxation machine that requires an electrical-simplest fluctuate of on the least 100 kilometres to be eligible for distinct incentives.

Volkswagen has previously conveyed interest in bringing a fully-electrical e-Amarok to the Australian market as soon because it becomes available.

The originate date of the e-Amarok can also very neatly be as soon as mid-2025 if Europe sticks to its aggressive timeline to introduce Euro 7 emissions rules that year.

Volkswagen Australia’s public family manager, Daniel Degasperi, knowledgeable Chasing Autos that “Volkswagen remains committed to the electrification of a monumental assortment of its models, initiating for commercial autos with the ID Buzz in 2024.

“We are currently working via critical orders on the tip discontinue of the Amarok fluctuate, and peep ahead to any evolution of the model fluctuate in due route,” he stated.