Skoda Australia is gearing up to bring its first plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) to local showrooms, and it insists they won’t come at the expense of its current combustion-powered models or its upcoming mild-hybrids.

The first two Skoda models to become available with PHEV power in Australia will be the Kodiaq large SUV, which arrives in December 2025, and the large Superb wagon, which will go on sale here in the first quarter of 2026, followed by the Superb sedan PHEV.

They’ll mark an essential next step in the Czech brand’s local electrification strategy, which started with the Enyaq and Elroq electric SUVs, as it attempts to meet increasingly stringent fleet-wide CO2 emissions limits imposed on auto brands by the federal government from this year as part of the New Vehicle Ef

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