BYD Shark 6 cab-chassis approved for sale in Australia

The BYD Shark 6 cab-chassis has been fixed the government’s stamp of support to spell connected merchantability successful Australia.

Approved precocious past week, the Shark 6 cab-chassis retains the existing Shark 6’s cardinal dimensions and capabilities, including a 3260mm wheelbase and a braked towing capableness of 2500kg.

With a tare wide of 2565kg — 110kg little than the existing exemplary with a mill tray — and an unchanged gross conveyance wide (GVM) of 3500kg, the cab-chassis tin accommodate a payload of 935kg, which includes immoderate tray oregon retention country is installed by the owner.

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As expected, the cab-chassis volition usage a transportation implicit plug-in hybrid drivetrain with a 135kW turbocharged 1.5-litre four-cylinder petrol motor astatine its core.

In the existing ute, the plug-in hybrid strategy has a full output of 321kW and 650Nm. It’s hooked up to a 29.6kWh artillery battalion that gives it an EV driving scope of 100km.

Timing has yet to beryllium confirmed by BYD, but fixed its caller approval, an aboriginal 2026 motorboat seems likely. The institution is besides said to beryllium moving connected a much almighty variant with a 2.0-litre plug-in hybrid drivetrain.

The cab-chassis will, successful each probability, little the terms of introduction into the Shark 6 range, and let BYD to people fleets and broaden its entreaty among tradespeople.

Launched precocious past year, the BYD Shark 6 has deed the crushed running. This twelvemonth to the extremity of October, 15,181 Shark 6s person been bought.

It presently sits 4th successful the 4×4 ute class down the Ford Ranger (43,924), Toyota HiLux (38,168), and Isuzu D-Max (17,905), and up of the Mitsubishi Triton (13,702) and Mazda BT-50 (9864).

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