A family SUV that runs on electricity for most of the week, outperforms an Audi Q7, and costs a million rand. The Omoda C9 PHEV makes a case that is difficult to argue with.
At R689 900, Jaecoo’s plug-in hybrid SUV costs less than the BYD Atto 3 and about the same as the new Geely E5. But spec-sheet range figures and real-world range figures are not the same thing — and once you account for that gap, the PHEV case looks rather more coherent than it might first appear.