Chery Stockman: The Full Spec Sheet Is Finally Public, the Price and the Launch Date Are Not

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The Chery Stockman has spent most of this year as a set of numbers passed around in press briefings. That part is over. Chery Australia now publishes the whole spec block on its own Stockman page under the heading "The numbers. All of them.", and on 17 September it confirmed the ute's first public appearance in this country, on its stand at Everything Electric Australia at Sydney Showground from 18 to 20 September.

What has not arrived is the pair of numbers that would let you actually plan around it. There is no price. There is no on-sale date. Where the spec table lists "Australian Launch", the answer Chery prints is one word: Soon.

What Chery Now Prints

This is the table as it appears on Chery Australia's Stockman page, transcribed rather than paraphrased.

One detail worth flagging, because it is the kind of thing that gets quietly dropped in the retelling. The 350kW / 800Nm figure on Chery's page carries a degree-symbol footnote marker, and there is no matching footnote anywhere on the page explaining what it qualifies. The only legend Chery prints covers the caret, hash and asterisk markers used on the warranty claims. The nearest thing to an explanation sits in the page's disclaimer block, which says electric driving range, fuel consumption, towing capacity and system output figures are "based on preliminary data and are subject to change without notice pending final vehicle specification, testing, certification and regulatory approval". So treat the headline output as provisional, because Chery does.

Beyond the table, Chery's page also confirms the off-road hardware: triple diff locks, front, centre and rear, individually selectable, plus crawl control and a tight-turn assist. Paint is listed as Obsidian, with premium paint available at additional cost. The vehicle shown in the imagery is captioned as an overseas render.

World's First, or Australia's First?

You will still see "world's first diesel plug-in hybrid ute" attached to the Stockman, and it did come from Chery. On 23 February 2026, announcing the KP31 concept, Chery Australia said the ute "will be the world's first ute to feature a Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) diesel system". The March naming-competition release and the May shortlist release both used world-first wording too.

Then it changed. The 17 June naming announcement described the Stockman as "Chery Australia's first ute and the nation's first diesel Plug-in Hybrid". The model page today says Australia's first diesel PHEV ute, twice, and the phrase "world's first" does not appear on it at all. The closest the current page gets is a line in the powertrain copy calling the diesel-plus-battery combination "the first setup of its kind in a ute, anywhere".

We use the narrower claim, for two reasons. It is the one Chery stands behind now, and it is the one we can actually check. Running our own numbers: there are 13 plug-in hybrid utes in the CarSorted database, and the Stockman is the only one with a diesel engine. Every other one, the BYD Shark 6, the GWM Cannon Alpha PHEV, the JAC Hunter PHEV and the Ford Ranger PHEV, pairs its battery with a petrol engine. A world-first is a bigger claim about a market we do not hold data on, so we are leaving that one in Chery's voice.

Is It Really That Much Bigger? We Checked

There is a line doing the rounds that the Stockman is roughly 120mm longer than a Ranger, 130mm longer than a HiLux and 170mm longer than a D-Max or BT-50. Three of those four are close to what our own rows say. The Ranger one is not, and it is worth showing the working rather than repeating the claim.

So the HiLux, D-Max and BT-50 gaps hold up. The Ranger one does not: against the Wildtrak double-cab pick-up we have at 5,370mm, the gap is 80mm, not 120mm. The only Rangers long enough to make 120mm work are the Super Duty variants at 5,447 to 5,470mm, and those are a different truck at a different price. And the Stockman is not the longest thing in this conversation at all. The Shark 6 is 7mm longer.

Same treatment on the wheelbase, since the Stockman's 3,250mm gets described as long. It is 20mm shorter than a Ranger's 3,270mm and 10mm shorter than a Shark 6's 3,260mm. It is longer than a HiLux (3,085mm) and a D-Max or BT-50 (3,125mm).

On the tray, the Stockman's 1,560mm cargo box is not the biggest either. Our Kia Tasman rows carry a 1,573mm tray and the D-Max a 1,570mm one. Its 500mm depth is deeper than most of the mainstream pack, and its 1,560mm width is wide, but "biggest tray in the segment" is not a claim our data supports and we are not making it. Tray millimetres decide whether pallets actually fit, which is a thing you can check rather than estimate: our ute cargo planner loads AU and Euro pallets into the published tray of a real ute and shows where they stop fitting.

Where the 247mm Sits

Chery quotes at least 247mm of ground clearance at full load, which is a more useful way to quote it than the usual unladen figure. Against our data it clears every mainstream diesel dual-cab we hold: HiLux SR5 225mm, D-Max SX 235mm, BT-50 XTR 235mm, Ranger Wildtrak 234mm. It also clears both plug-in rivals comfortably, with the Shark 6 at 230mm and the Cannon Alpha Lux PHEV at 210mm.

It is not the segment high, though. The Kia Tasman X-Pro sits at 252mm and the Ranger Raptor at 272mm in our rows, and the Ranger Super Duty runs 295 to 299mm. Approach, departure and ramp-over angles are the numbers four-wheel drive clubs actually ask for, and Chery has not published any of them, so that stays as no data.

How the Plug-In Ute Pack Lines Up

Every figure in this table is pulled from our own rows rather than from a press release.

Prices marked d/a are drive-away; the others are before on-road costs. Watch the test cycles rather than the raw range numbers. NEDC is the older, gentler lab cycle and WLTP the tougher one, so a car quoting NEDC will read further on paper than one quoting WLTP even if they behave identically on the road. That means the Cannon Alpha's 115km NEDC and the Shark 6 Performance's 80km WLTP are closer together than the numbers suggest, and the Stockman's 100km is an NEDC figure too. We are not going to put a conversion percentage on it, because the gap varies by car and we have not measured one.

Two honest readings of that table. The Stockman's 800Nm is the highest torque figure of any plug-in hybrid ute in our database, ahead of the Cannon Alpha's 750Nm and the Shark 6 Performance's 700Nm. That claim comes with a hole in it: we hold no torque figure at all for the JAC Hunter PHEV, so it is the highest of the ones we can measure, not provably the highest full stop. And on power the Stockman is not the leader. Our Hunter Pro PHEV row carries 360kW.

What Chery Still Has Not Said

This is the part worth keeping, because plenty of Stockman coverage fills these gaps with numbers Chery has never published. As at 25 September 2026, Chery Australia has not published:

• A price, or a price range, for any Stockman variant
• An on-sale date, or even a quarter, beyond "Soon"
• A battery capacity in kWh, a charging speed, or a V2L output
• A WLTP electric range, or an ADR-tested combined consumption figure
• A kerb weight, GVM, GCM or tow-ball download, which are the numbers that decide whether you can actually tow 3.5 tonnes with a loaded tray
• A grade structure or an Australian equipment list
• Outputs for the petrol PHEV it confirmed for 2027
• Approach, departure or ramp-over angles

The payload is the one exception in that list that is sourced: Chery Australia published a 1,000kg payload in its February and March 2026 releases, alongside the 3.5-tonne towing figure.

On safety, ANCAP has published no rating for the Stockman. That means no data, not a prediction. Chery's recent Australian launches have scored well, but the protocol dual-cab utes are tested against has moved, and we are not borrowing a result from a different model.

Ownership

Chery advertises the Stockman with a 7-year unlimited kilometre vehicle warranty, 7 years of capped-price servicing, and an 8-year unlimited kilometre high-voltage battery warranty starting from the date of first registration. Roadside assistance is quoted as up to 7 years, and the "up to" is doing real work there: Chery gives you a complimentary year with the vehicle, and you renew for another 12 months at each scheduled service with an authorised Chery dealer. Miss a dealer service and the clock stops. Chery notes that terms, conditions and exclusions apply to all of it. Our Australian car warranty comparison puts that against the rest of the ute pack.

What This Means For Buyers

If you are holding a Stockman deposit, nothing here changes it, but nothing here lets you plan either. There is no date to diarise and no number to budget against, and the Everything Electric showing is a static display rather than a launch. The sensible read is that Chery is close enough to show the car in public and not close enough to price it.

If you are cross-shopping, the useful comparison today is between things you can actually buy. The GWM Cannon Alpha Lux PHEV at $57,490 drive-away and the BYD Shark 6 Premium at $57,900 drive-away are both on sale, both carry a 5-star ANCAP rating, and both have published Australian consumption figures. The Stockman has a stronger paper spec on torque, clearance and towing, and three unknowns where their prices, dates and safety ratings sit. Run the Stockman vs Shark 6 or Stockman vs Cannon Alpha pages to see that trade-off laid out, or browse the rest of Chery's Australian range.

If you tow near the limit, the number to wait for is not the price. It is the kerb weight and GCM. A 3,500kg braked rating and a 1,000kg payload are not additive, and until Chery publishes a GCM nobody can tell you what the Stockman can carry while it is towing. We will add those to the Stockman listing the day they land. In the meantime, our towing and payload calculator runs that sum properly on the utes we do hold a GCM for: add your passengers, your accessories and your trailer, and it shows which rating you run out of first. That is the calculation the Stockman cannot be put through yet.

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