2026 Jaecoo J5 confirmed for Australia

Jaecoo will flesh out its local roster with the small J5 crossover next year now it’s been confirmed for right-hand drive and will likely provide the fledgling brand with its first EV.

“From the Jaecoo side, we’re looking at the J5 next,” Chery Motor Australia chief commercial officer Roy Munoz said at the Omoda 9 launch in Sydney last week.

“We don’t have concrete timing on that, but given that a similar right-hand drive market, the UK have announced and launched it, so naturally that’s what we’re looking at also.”

Timing isn’t locked in yet, given the rush of product that has come from the Jaecoo Omoda stable already in 2025.

“We’ve been quite busy, and we only launched in May, with J7, J8 and now Omoda 9,” Munoz said.

“We probably need to give the brands some breathing room before the next model. So probably the first half of 2026 if I was to do a ballpark.”

The J5 will launch in the UK in two variants: a 108kW 1.6-litre turbo-petrol and a battery-electric version running a 61kWh battery for an approximate range of 400km.

The petrol-powered J5 could potentially share the mechanical make-up of the larger J7, while the electric version could be the third plug-in car for the fledgling brand after the J7 and Omoda 9 hybrids.

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