2026 Deepal E07 Priced for Australia: $64,900 Multitruck With 550km WLTP, 800V Charging and a Tray That Folds Away

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The Deepal E07 is the strangest new car to land in Australia this year, and Deepal Australia has now put a price on it. The single-motor rear-drive version opens the range at $64,900 before on-roads and the dual-motor Performance AWD sits at $73,900 before on-roads. Both are on sale now through Deepal's Australian retail network, both drive to a boot that folds away into a genuine open tray, and both charge at 800 volts on a network almost nothing under $100,000 is set up to feed. The interesting question is not whether it will sell in huge numbers. It probably will not. The interesting question is whether the concept, an EV shaped like a large fastback SUV with a ute tray hiding under the rear glass, has any real use case for an Australian buyer. This is the CarSorted read on the numbers.

For context on where it sits, the E07 lands as the second Deepal on sale here after the Deepal S07, and it sits in the same money bracket as an all-wheel drive BYD Sealion 7 Premium, a well-optioned Cupra Tavascan and a Tesla Model Y Long Range. None of them do the ute trick.

Pricing

Both cars sit above the fuel-efficient Luxury Car Tax threshold at the standard $64,900, so no LCT slug there. The AWD Performance at $73,900 also stays under the FBT-friendly $91,387 fuel-efficient LCT cap, which means a novated lease on the E07 still runs through the EV Fringe Benefits Tax exemption if the car is ordered before the exemption sunset changes any further. That is worth checking with your lease provider on the day of order, because Federal Treasury has flagged the exemption for review multiple times this year.

Powertrain and Battery

Both grades share the same 89.98kWh NMC (ternary lithium) battery running on Deepal's 800V electrical architecture. The RWD is a single rear motor at 252kW / 365Nm for a 6.7 second 0 to 100. The AWD Performance adds a front motor for combined 440kW / 645Nm and drops the sprint to 3.96 seconds, which puts it inside a Model Y Performance and only a fraction behind a Porsche Taycan 4S. This is a heavy car doing that; kerb weight on the AWD sits above 2,400kg on Deepal's own figures.

The 800V bit is the standout at this money. Almost every mainstream mid-size EV in the sub-$75,000 bracket, from a Tesla Model Y to a Kia EV5, still runs on a 400V bus. Only the XPeng G6 and the BYD Sealion 7 in this money can match the Deepal on peak DC charging, and on a real 350kW Chargefox or Evie unit the difference between 240kW peak and, say, 175kW is roughly six minutes on a 10 to 80 stop. Not life-changing on a metro commute, but a genuine difference when you are actually road-tripping.

The Multitruck Bit

The reason to look at the E07 over a Model Y is not the shape or the price. It is the back end. The E07 is a five-seat SUV with a normal boot when you want it, but the rear glass and roof section retract and the load area then opens as a proper flat tray for hauling things a Model Y boot cannot swallow. Deepal quotes a 300kg dynamic payload for that rear cargo area (loaded on the move) and a 610kg total payload for the car. For a nightly commute that carries a bike, a stack of surfboards, a couple of e-bikes on a rear rack, or a mid-size delivery run, it works.

For anything the Australian dual-cab market actually uses a ute for, the E07 is out. Braked towing at 1,500kg is a caravan-caliber failure. A base BYD Shark 6 does 2,500kg braked, the Shark 6 Performance does the full 3,500kg, and even a diesel Kia Sorento tows 2,000kg. The E07 is a lifestyle-ute for someone who occasionally needs to move a big awkward object, not a work ute in any sense. That is not a criticism, just a positioning point.

Equipment

Both grades are single-trim in Australia, with all the kit standard and only a $500 premium-orange interior upgrade to option. Deepal Australia lists the following as standard on the RWD, and everything carries over unchanged on the AWD Performance:

• 15.4-inch rotating central touchscreen (portrait or landscape) with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto
• Digital driver display plus a windscreen head-up display
• Nappa leather seats, front row heated, ventilated and with a massage function
• 50W ventilated wireless charging pad, USB-A and USB-C ports front and rear
• Panoramic fixed glass roof
• Double-layer acoustic glass on the windscreen and front side windows
• Power-retractable rear roof and glass section that reveals the open tray
• Full ADAS pack: AEB with cyclist and pedestrian detection, adaptive cruise, lane centring, blind spot, rear cross traffic alert, driver attention monitor, 360-degree surround camera
• V2L, V2V and V2H bidirectional discharge for running appliances or charging another EV from the car

The rotating screen sits above the dash on a motor so it swings between portrait and landscape on driver request. It looks like a party trick until you find yourself in it on a road trip and the map fills a full-height portrait view while CarPlay stays running. The bit of kit missing at this price point is a proper premium audio brand callout; Deepal has not named a hi-fi partner yet, which is unusual on a $70,000 car.

Safety

The Deepal E07 has not yet been assessed by ANCAP, so it carries no local star rating. That will come; Deepal S07 was tested and rated separately, and given the parts sharing across the Deepal range the E07 will likely rate at the same level once the assessment lands. Standard safety kit is comprehensive: AEB with pedestrian and cyclist detection, adaptive cruise, lane centring assist, blind spot monitor, rear cross traffic alert and brake, driver attention monitor, 360-degree camera, and Deepal's Level 2 hands-on highway assist. Both variants get seven airbags including the centre-front unit that ANCAP now requires for a five-star result under the current protocol.

The one caveat worth flagging: the rear cargo bay conversion moves structural elements around, and until ANCAP publishes its assessment we do not have side-impact rear scores for the deployed tray configuration. If you are buying an E07 to actually use as a ute regularly, treat that as an open question rather than a proven equivalence with the closed-boot fastback version.

How It Compares

The E07 does not really have a direct rival, which is both its pitch and its problem. Nothing else on sale here is a large 800V EV fastback with a folding ute tray. What it does compete with, on price and on the shopping list of a family EV buyer, is a shortlist of mid-size to large electric SUVs. Here is where the numbers sit against the CarSorted database today:

The E07 RWD is the most powerful car on that list by 22kW, has more range than a BYD Sealion 7 or a Cupra Tavascan, and undercuts a Tesla Model Y Long Range by $4,000. And it does the tray trick nothing else here does. That is a competitive number in isolation. In the metal, though, the E07 is a 5,045mm long car sitting between a Model Y (4,780mm) and a Tesla Model X (5,057mm) on the tape measure, so it is a chunky, expensive-looking car and it has to feel it inside to earn the extra $10k over a Sealion 7. Early Australian first drives from the same brand's S07 suggest the cabin plastics and switchgear are competitive with the mid-Chinese pack rather than premium-European.

The Deepal S07 (pictured), already on sale in Australia, is the closest reference point for how the E07 will drive and feel inside. Image credit: Deepal Australia

What This Means for Buyers (the CarSorted Angle)

Cross-shopping this against the current CarSorted database, the buyer profile the E07 makes sense for is narrow but real. If you are already looking at a $65,000 to $75,000 electric SUV, mostly city driving, and you have a specific hobby or side hustle that occasionally needs to move a big awkward object, a bike, an e-bike stack, a surfboard rack, camping gear that will not fit under a Model Y hatchback, then the E07 gives you all the EV bits, more power than any of its price rivals, faster DC charging than most of them, and a genuine tray you cannot get on any other electric SUV. That is a niche and it is a real one.

If you are cross-shopping a BYD Shark 6 or a Ford Ranger because you actually tow, walk right past this one. 1,500kg braked is a genuine no-go for anything you would call a caravan, a big boat, or a proper work trailer. The E07 is a lifestyle vehicle with tray functionality, not a substitute for a plug-in-hybrid ute.

The other buyer where it lines up: novated lease shoppers under the FBT exemption. At $64,900 the RWD sits inside the fuel-efficient LCT cap comfortably, and the $73,900 AWD is also inside it. That means the whole lease payment is pre-tax salary sacrifice, which for someone on the top marginal rate pulls another $6,000 to $9,000 per year off the effective monthly cost versus a petrol equivalent at the same list price. Run the maths through our FBT-exempt novated lease calculator before you commit; the E07 is heavy on kit, which normally means heavy on service costs, but Deepal has locked in seven years of capped-price servicing so the running-cost picture is more predictable than most.

Compare the E07 head to head with something on the CarSorted directory: try our Deepal S07 vs Tesla Model Y comparison for the closest apples-to-apples read on how a Deepal drives, feels and prices out against the segment benchmark. The E07 is a bigger, faster, weirder version of that same S07 idea.

Warranty and Ownership

Deepal Australia backs the E07 with a seven-year, 160,000km vehicle warranty, an eight-year and 240,000km high-voltage battery warranty, seven years of capped-price servicing and 12 months of roadside assistance. That vehicle cover matches Kia and MG in class and beats Tesla's four-year package. Scheduled servicing is once every 12 months or 20,000km, whichever hits first. Insurance groups have not been published yet; expect them to sit around a Model Y Long Range at first, because insurers are still working through parts-cost data on the brand.

Our Take

The E07 is not going to be a volume car. It is going to be a car people either write off as gimmicky or fall in love with because they finally have the vehicle they have been asking for for a decade. On paper the RWD at $64,900 is a genuinely competitive mid-size electric SUV before you factor in the tray. On the road the AWD Performance at $73,900 is a legitimate sub-four-second EV that also happens to convert into a flat load bed. Neither figure is cheap and neither is embarrassing.

Where it will fall over is the two-year resale story on a brand nobody in Australia had heard of eighteen months ago, and the practical question of what happens when the roof mechanism sees five years of Melbourne rain. Deepal's parent Changan is a top-four Chinese automaker with the scale to stay the distance, but Australian consumers do not price warranty confidence in yet. If Deepal can bank two years of solid ownership stories on the S07 before the E07 comes up for its first-round trade-in, the resale worry will fade. If not, expect to see three-year-old E07s at 45 per cent of new for the person happy to be the second owner.

For anyone shopping this segment right now, walk through the CarSorted directory and shortlist the E07 alongside a Model Y Long Range, an XPeng G6 Long Range and a BYD Sealion 7 Premium. The E07 is the strangest of the four and the one you have to actually go and sit in to make a call on.