Hybrids ain’t hybrids…

It’s fuel pumps at dawn as a new petrol-electric version of the Subaru Forester tries to displace the Toyota RAV4 as the world’s best – and most frugal – $40,000 hybrid SUV.

Sales of hybrid vehicles are soaring in Australia as motorists embrace petrol-electric drivetrain technology in conventional-looking models.

The world’s chief hybrid proponent, Toyota, says these multi-motor models accounted for a quarter of its sales here during the first quarter of 2020. And the most popular is the petrol-electric Toyota RAV4.

Such is the demand for the first-ever hybrid variants of the RAV4 that customers have been facing waits of six months or longer, prompting Toyota Australia to beg Japan for additional production.
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