Key Takeaways
- Chery's online form asks $1,000, which it calls a fully refundable reservation fee, and deliveries start from 1 February 2027
- Reserve between 1 October and 30 November 2026, then sign and take delivery, and Chery adds three years of free scheduled servicing and a $2,000 Bunnings gift card
- Still no price. Chery's words are “final price to be confirmed soon”, and its terms let it amend pricing before launch
- Chery publishes 350kW / 800Nm, 3,500kg braked and up to 100km electric (NEDC), all flagged as preliminary
- Chery publishes no kerb weight, GVM or GCM, so the towing figure cannot yet be turned into a legal load
- No ANCAP rating that we hold, and no grades announced
Image credit: Chery Australia. Chery labels its Stockman images as an overseas render of a pre-production vehicle.
You can now put money down on a ute whose price nobody has seen. Chery Australia has opened reservations for the Stockman, the diesel plug-in hybrid dual-cab it has been teasing since the KP31 concept, and its online form asks $1,000 to hold a place in the queue. Deliveries start from 1 February 2027. The price is, in Chery's own words on that form, to be confirmed.
So the useful question is not what the Stockman might cost. It is what a reservation actually commits you to. We read Chery's reservation terms in full on 1 October 2026, and they are more buyer-friendly than the headline suggests, with a couple of details worth knowing before you tap the card.
What the $1,000 Buys, and What It Does Not
Chery's terms say the fee and the reservation order “do not constitute a contract for the purchase or sale of a vehicle”, do not oblige Chery or the dealer to sell you one, and do not oblige you to buy one. Chery holds the $1,000 itself and only passes it to your dealer once a contract of sale is signed, at which point it comes off the purchase price. Before that, you can cancel and ask for it back.
| Reservation term | What Chery's terms say |
|---|---|
| Amount | $1,000, described as a fully refundable reservation fee |
| Refund | Available any time before a contract of sale; may take up to 14 days |
| Not refunded | Third-party payment processing fees, charged separately and payable by you |
| Price | Not fixed. Chery may amend pricing before launch; the drive-away price is negotiated with the dealer |
| If Chery cancels | Chery may cancel and refund if no contract of sale is signed within 30 days after the on-sale date |
| Transfers | Reservation orders and fees are not transferable without Chery's written consent |
| Limit | One active reservation order per customer, unless Chery agrees otherwise |
The headline point: your $1,000 does not lock a price. Chery reserves the right to amend pricing before launch, and the final drive-away number is a negotiation with the dealer. This is a queue ticket, not a hedge against a price rise. Keep a copy of the terms you agreed to, because deliveries are four months out and Chery has told you in writing that the specification can still move.
The Bunnings Card Is Paid on Delivery, Not on Reservation
This is the bit most likely to be misread. Chery's terms say that if you reserve between 1 October and 30 November 2026, then sign a contract of sale and take delivery of that reserved Stockman, you become eligible for three years of free scheduled servicing and a $2,000 Bunnings gift card. Both are provided at delivery. Neither is transferable, neither can be swapped for cash, and neither can be applied as a reduction to the purchase price. Cancel, or never take delivery, and you get neither.
The servicing wording is narrower than “three free services” too: it covers scheduled services falling due in the three years from your delivery date, under Chery's schedule, and excludes repairs, wear-and-tear items, accident damage and optional work. WhichCar and 4X4 Australia both reported a 45,000km cap alongside the three years; Chery's published terms name no distance, so treat that as reported and get it in writing. And a gift card that cannot reduce the purchase price is real money but it is not a discount, so do not subtract it from a price that does not exist yet. Offers on cars you can buy today are on our deals page.
What Chery Publishes About the Car
Everything below is from Chery Australia's Stockman page, read on 1 October 2026, with Chery's own warning attached: specification information is indicative only, and the range, consumption, towing and output figures are preliminary and subject to change pending final specification, testing and certification. Read it as intent, not as a spec sheet.
| Item | As published by Chery Australia |
|---|---|
| Diesel plug-in hybrid (2.5-litre turbo-diesel plus electric motor) | |
| Combined system output | 350kW / 800Nm |
| Electric-only range | Up to 100km (NEDC) |
| Combined fuel consumption | 2.0L/100km |
| Drive type | 4WD, triple selectable diff locks, crawl control, tight-turn assist |
| Towing, braked / unbraked | 3,500kg / 750kg |
| Length / width / height | 5,450 / 2,010 / 1,890mm |
| Wheelbase | 3,250mm |
| Cargo box | 1,560 x 1,560 x 500mm |
| Ground clearance, laden | 247mm or greater |
| Suspension, front / rear | Double wishbone / leaf spring |
| Warranty | 7 years unlimited km, 8 years unlimited km on the high-voltage battery |
| Price and grades | Not announced |
One figure deserves a flag. The 100km electric range is an NEDC number, and Chery says so. NEDC is an older, gentler cycle than WLTP, so check which cycle a rival's range figure was measured on before you line the two up. Of the 16 plug-in hybrid ute rows in our directory, the Stockman is the only one whose engine is recorded as a diesel. That is the whole pitch, and Chery leans on it: its page calls the Stockman Australia's first diesel plug-in hybrid ute.
The Missing Numbers That Actually Matter
A 3,500kg braked rating on its own tells you very little. What decides whether you can tow 3.5 tonnes with a loaded tray and four people aboard is the gross combination mass, the maximum legal weight of ute and trailer together, read against the gross vehicle mass and the kerb weight. Chery publishes none of those three, and neither does our row. No payload on the model page either, no towball limit, no battery capacity. So here is the arithmetic on five plug-in hybrid utes you can buy today, using the kerb, GVM and GCM we hold for each. The Stockman is absent because Chery has not published the numbers to put it there.
Payload 725 kg · GVM 3,500 · GCM 6,650 · Braked tow 3,500 · Tow-ball 350 kg
Passengers, accessories and the tow-ball all count against the vehicle's payload and GVM. The trailer adds to GCM.
Total weight of people and gear inside the vehicle
Fully-loaded trailer weight, not the dry tare
Assumed at 10% of trailer ATM
Enter both from a weighbridge / your compliance plate to add a rear-axle gauge. Nothing here is estimated.
How these are calculated
Payload = GVM − kerb weight. Passengers, accessories and the tow-ball download all count against it.
GVM used = kerb + passengers + accessories + tow-ball.
GCM used = kerb + passengers + accessories + trailer (ATM). The tow-ball isn't added twice: it's part of the vehicle load and comes out of the trailer's axle weight, so (kerb + load + tow-ball) + (ATM − tow-ball) = kerb + load + ATM.
Tow = trailer ATM vs the braked rating. Tow-ball is assumed at 10% of the trailer (a common rule of thumb) unless you enter your own.
When a vehicle's kerb weight isn't published but its payload is, we derive kerb = GVM − payload. Manufacturers usually quote payload off the lightest build, so a car with options already fitted will have a little less real-world payload.
Vehicle weights (kerb, GVM, GCM, braked-tow and tow-ball limits) are the manufacturer's published figures from our database. Figures are a guide, not independently verified. Confirm against the compliance plate and never exceed rated GVM, GCM, tow or tow-ball limits.
Play with it and you will see why this matters. Hitch a 3,000kg van with a 300kg ball weight to most of these and what is left for people and gear is a lot smaller than the brochure number. That is the question to put to a Chery dealer before you turn a reservation into a contract: kerb weight, GVM, GCM and towball limit, in writing. For a whole rig, our TowingSorted planner does the same sums with the trailer on the back, and our fuel cost calculator shows what the fuel costs once the battery is flat, which is where a claimed 2.0L/100km stops applying.
What You Can Buy Instead, Today
A reservation is a bet that waiting until February beats buying now. Here are five plug-in hybrid utes already on sale in Australia that we list, so you can see what the money buys while the Stockman's price is still blank. Pick any two.
Pick two
Plug-in hybrid utes on sale now, side by side
The electrified dual-cabs a Stockman reserver is choosing between. Tap any two.
| Spec | BYD Shark 6 Performance | GWM Cannon Alpha Ultra PHEV |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $62,900RRP, before on-roads | $64,490drive-away, not an RRP |
| Electric-only range | 80 km | 115 km |
| Braked towing | 3,500 kg | 3,500 kg |
| Payload | No data | 685 kg |
| Fuel use | 1.3 L/100kmfrom a full battery, 10.5 once flat | 1.7 L/100kmfrom a full battery, 7.9 once flat |
| ANCAP | 5 starstested 2025 | 5 starstested 2024 |
| Warranty | 6 yr150k km | 7 yrunlimited km |
Prices are each car's listed price on CarSorted and are not all on the same basis, so read the label under each one: the GWM figure is drive-away, the BYD figures are RRPs before on-road costs, the Ford figure is our labelled estimated RRP, and we hold no price for the JAC. The Chery Stockman is not shown because it is not on sale and has no announced price. Figures come from our car database, which is built from Australian manufacturer documents. A blank field reads “No data” rather than a zero or a dash.
The two obvious cross-shops: the BYD Shark 6 Performance, listed at $62,900 before on-road costs with 350kW, 700Nm, 3,500kg braked and five ANCAP stars dated 2025, and the GWM Cannon Alpha Ultra PHEV, listed at $64,490 drive-away on a GWM campaign price we last checked on 19 September 2026, with 300kW, 750Nm, 3,500kg braked and five stars dated 2024. Compare them head to head on our Shark 6 versus Cannon Alpha page. Both run petrol plug-in systems, which is exactly the gap Chery is aiming at.
Still Unknown
- Price and grades. The form offers a single variant, listed as to be confirmed, with 17-inch alloys, a black interior and four colours: Serpentine, plus Obsidian, Sandstone and White Opal, which Chery marks as premium paint at extra cost.
- Kerb weight, GVM, GCM and towball download. None published. The only payload figure Chery Australia has put out is the 1,000kg it quoted for the KP31 concept in February 2026, and the Stockman page does not repeat it.
- Battery capacity and charging. Chery's page gives no kWh figure and no charging rate. The only battery number on it is the 8-year warranty.
- ANCAP. We hold no rating, and the car is not yet on sale here.
- Equipment by grade. Chery lists leather, heated and ventilated front seats, wireless charging, dual-zone climate and premium audio, but with no grades announced, nothing is confirmed standard on the one you order.
- A petrol version. Reported by Australian outlets as coming later, with 4X4 Australia putting it in 2027, and not on Chery's Stockman page.
Reserve, or Wait?
Reserve if you were always going to buy one and can leave $1,000 with Chery for a few months. The downside is genuinely small: the fee is refundable before you sign, the reservation does not oblige you to buy, and the offer window closes on 30 November 2026, so fence-sitting has a deadline attached.
Wait if the price decides it, because the reservation does not fix one, or if you tow heavy. Until Chery publishes a GCM, nobody can tell you whether the Stockman tows 3,500kg with a useful load aboard, and that is the difference between a ute that works for you and one that does not.
The Stockman's price and specifications go into the CarSorted directory as soon as Chery Australia publishes them. Until then, row 1758 sits there with no price against it, which is where it should be.
Disclaimer: Reservation amount, refund terms, offer eligibility window, offer benefits, delivery timing and every Stockman specification above are as published by Chery Motor Australia on its Stockman model page and its online vehicle reservation form and terms and conditions, both read on 1 October 2026. Chery states that specification information is indicative only and that electric range, fuel consumption, towing capacity and system output are preliminary and subject to change pending final specification, testing, certification and regulatory approval, and that it may amend vehicle pricing before launch. Chery labels its Stockman images as overseas renders of a pre-production vehicle. The three-year servicing period is Chery's published term; the 45,000km figure reported alongside it by Australian outlets does not appear in Chery's published terms and is marked as reported. Rival prices, masses, towing figures and ANCAP ratings are the values listed on CarSorted at the time of writing and are not all on the same price basis; GWM's drive-away figure is a campaign price last checked on 19 September 2026. This is general information, not financial, legal or tax advice. Confirm price, specification, masses and offer terms with a Chery dealer before entering a contract of sale.