Everything Electric Sydney 2026: iCaur's V25 Lands, Chery Debuts Lepas, and the Zeekr 7GT Finally Breaks Cover

Image credit: Zeekr Australia

If you wanted a single weekend to measure how fast Australia's electric market is moving, this was it. Everything Electric Sydney ran at Sydney Showground from September 18 to 20 and turned into the biggest debut stage the local EV scene has had all year: two entirely new brands for Australia, a first public look at one of the most anticipated electric wagons in the world, an electric ute that could rewrite what tradies expect from a battery, and a commercial van that fleet buyers have been asking about for two years.

The pattern underneath the metal is the one we keep writing about: Chinese groups multiplying their badges, and the gaps in the market, wagons, utes, vans, getting filled by electric product first. Here is every debut that matters, what we actually know about each car, and what is still a blank space until the brands publish Australian figures.

iCaur V25: Chery's youth brand arrives with a box

The iCaur V25 made its official Australian debut in Sydney, and it is exactly the kind of car that stops foot traffic: a deliberately boxy, retro-flavoured electric SUV that looks nothing like the soft-edged crossovers filling every other stand. iCaur is Chery's youth-focused sub-brand, and the V25 is its opening statement for this market.

What we do not have yet is anything you can put in a spreadsheet. Australian pricing, battery sizes, range figures and an on-sale date were not published at the show, and our rule is simple: no figure goes in our database until it comes from the brand's own Australian documents. When iCaur publishes local specs, the V25 will get its rows and its page. Until then, the honest description is a design-led small electric SUV from the group that already sells more Chery, Omoda and Jaecoo product here than most people realise.

Lepas L6 and L4: a whole new brand, two SUVs deep

Chery did not stop at one debut. The group used the show to launch Lepas, its newest sub-brand for Australia, with two electric SUVs on the stand: the larger L6 and the smaller L4. That takes the Chery group's Australian badge count to four, and the strategy is transparent: cover every niche, every price point and every buyer age bracket with a different brand name before the established players react.

As with the V25, local specifications and pricing were not published at the show, so both cars sit in the watch-list column for now. The context that matters for buyers: Chery's existing Australian range is aggressively priced, and its Tiggo 4 sits at $23,990 drive-away, so nobody should expect Lepas to arrive expensive.

Zeekr 7GT: the wagon finally shows its face

The car we suspect most show-goers came for. The Zeekr 7GT electric wagon was shown publicly in Australia for the first time, months after Zeekr confirmed it for this market. Australia barely gets wagons anymore, let alone fast electric ones, and the 7GT is the shape of car that a chunk of SUV buyers quietly wish they were allowed to buy.

Zeekr Australia has not yet published local pricing for the 7GT, so our database carries its early variant structure without an RRP, and we will not guess one. What is already on sale is its SUV sibling: the Zeekr 7X starts at $57,900 before on-road costs, and if you want to know how it stacks up against the default choice, our Zeekr X vs BYD Sealion 7 and Sealion 7 vs Model Y comparisons cover the segment the 7GT will fight in.

MG U9 electric ute, and a preview of IM

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The electric MG U9 had its first New South Wales showing, and it remains the ute to watch: MG has named Australia as the first market in the world to get it, and the reported figures, which MG Australia has still not confirmed on its own pages, would make it the only electric ute here rated to tow 3,500kg. Until those numbers appear on MG's Australian site they stay in the reported column, and the diesel U9 range from $52,990 driveaway is the version you can actually buy today.

Beside the ute, MG showed a large luxury SUV previewing its premium IM brand portfolio, another badge-multiplication play in the same mould as Chery's. No Australian line-up or pricing was announced for IM at the show.

Staria Load Electric and the Lyriq V

Image credit: Hyundai Australia

Two quieter debuts round out the list. The Hyundai Staria Load Electric was presented to the Australian market for the first time, and it matters more than its stand size suggested: electric vans are where fleet operators do their sums hardest, and the Staria Load is already a fixture on Australian job sheets. Hyundai has not yet published local specs or pricing for the electric version, and our Staria Hybrid coverage shows how quickly that van range is diversifying.

Image credit: Cadillac Australia

And for the performance crowd, Cadillac featured the Lyriq V, the performance-focused variant of its all-electric luxury SUV. The standard LYRIQ is on sale now at $90,000 before on-road costs after one of the biggest price cuts in the market this year. Cadillac has not published Australian specifications or pricing for the V, so the show car is a statement of intent rather than an order form.

The CarSorted angle: debuts are not deliveries

Six debuts, and not one of them came with an Australian price. That is the honest summary of the weekend, and it is worth holding onto, because show-stand excitement has a way of turning into deposit money before the spec sheet exists. Every car above goes into our watch list, and each one gets its database rows the day its brand publishes Australian figures, sourced from those documents and nothing else.

Meanwhile, the EVs you can actually buy this weekend are sharper value than they have ever been. The BYD Atto 1 at $19,990 drive-away is the cheapest new car in the country, our under-$25k EV guide walks the whole budget end, and if a show car caught your eye you can line its nearest on-sale rival up against anything else on the directory and run your own numbers with the range estimator.

What this means for buyers

If you are shopping electric right now, nothing at the show changes this month's decision, and the current run of drive-away deals will not wait for the show cars to land. If you can wait six to twelve months, the picture changes meaningfully: two new budget-leaning brands from the Chery group, a genuine electric wagon, an electric ute with diesel-grade towing ambitions and an electric version of a fleet-favourite van are all now confirmed as coming rather than rumoured. Watch for the Australian spec sheets; we certainly will be.

Details correct at publication based on what was displayed and announced at Everything Electric Sydney 2026. Where a brand has not published Australian specifications or pricing, figures are described as unconfirmed and no value has been entered into the CarSorted database. Always confirm final pricing and specifications with the manufacturer or your dealer.