Next-generation Nissan Navara is coming to Australia in 2026

Nissan has confirmed that its current one-tonne pickup truck, the Navara, is due in Australia in 2026.

Nissan’s chairperson for the AMEIO negate of the logo, Guillaume Cartier, suggested media in Abu Dhabi that electrifying the Navara might be a “two-step attain”.

“First, this also might be a PHEV resolution, then in a while this also might be EV”, Mr Cartier stated.

Alternatively, earlier than the two stage attain begins, Cartier confirmed that the Navara will at the beginning launch with diesel vitality.

It’s expected that the electrified Navara might be based entirely heavily off the most contemporary Triton ute in 2026 and must share PHEV technologies with Mitsubishi.

Mitsubishi Australia has already suggested Chasing Autos that “PHEV and varied forms of hybridisation are below scrutinize for Triton” nonetheless we silent aren’t determined which skills Mitsubishi will employ.

Nissan executives moreover stated in Abu Dhabi that the logo is working by the enchancment of proper-negate battery technologies for Navara further down the road, nonetheless we also can no longer gaze a plump electric Navara till later this decade.

What could maybe perhaps the PHEV powertrain be for Navara?

Feature to be developed with Mitsubishi, the crawl-in hybrid powertrain is at probability of be a petroleum engine, and must be very comparable to what’s already found within the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV – a 2.4-litre petrol engine supported by dual electric motors.

The Outlander makes employ of a 20kWh battery to offer up to 84km of all-electric vary, nonetheless the Triton/Navara PHEV could maybe occupy an even bigger battery, perhaps as astronomical as 35kWh, to handle the better vitality demands of a ute without compromising on electric vary.

Assorted electrified utes coming to Australia

Whereas GWM used to be the most major to bring a chain-parallel hybrid ute to our Australian market with the GWM Cannon Alpha, BYD might be the most major automaker to introduce a crawl-in hybrid ute.

BYD’s Shark ute will employ a 1.5-litre turbo-petrol engine mated to two electric motors to bear 320kW of vitality. The Shark is predicted in Australia by the discontinuance of 2024.

Ford will moreover beat the Navara PHEV to market and has already confirmed it is bringing a crawl-in hybrid Ranger ute to Australia in 2025. It’ll employ a 2.3-litre Ecoboost turbo petrol engine mated with an electric motor to bear at the least 250kW/650Nm. Precise figures are yet to be introduced, nonetheless are expected rapidly.

Isuzu and LDV are moreover working to bring hybrid and pure-electric versions of their respective utes to market within the shut to future.