- Looking for the 2025 Lincoln Nautilus hybrid online? The trim appears to be hidden in Lincoln’s configurator
- It’s not gone away, though—you’ll just have to “work with” your local dealer to get one, now
- The Canadian-market Nautilus is built in China—and Canada just imposed some tariffs on Chinese EVs
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In the never-ending dance of sorting out the right powertrain mix for its products, Lincoln could be making it slightly more difficult to spec a hybrid powertrain in its Nautilus for the 2025 model year. Ably spotted by Driving’s own Graeme Fletcher, the configurator tool for the 2025 Lincoln Nautilus permits the choice of Premiere and Reserve trims, but the hybrid option does not appear for selection as it did last year. Instead, the sole powertrain apparently available is its 2.0L turbocharged four-banger, mated with an eight-speed automatic and all-wheel-drive.
When asked about hybrid availability on the Nautilus for 2025, reps for Lincoln in Canada told us the configuration is indeed still available, though, but “customers would have to work with their local dealership to get one,” before going on to confirm it remains a $3,500 option on this model. This confirms that, yes, the powertrain type is still available, even if it no longer appears on the configurator for our market.
Why might Lincoln be downplaying the availability of a Nautilus hybrid? The rep didn’t say, but we will note that the Nautilus is assembled in China, and that, coincidentally, China is a country to which Canada has imposed some tariffs recently — among them a 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles, and a 25% surtax on aluminum and steel imports. Those changes came into effect October 1 and 15, respectively.
Specifically, the government document says the tariff will be “implemented on the products listed below, when imported from China,” before going on to list a litany of vehicles including tariff item 8703.40.10, which is described as “non-plug-in hybrid passenger autos, with both spark-ignition internal-combustion piston engine and electric motor as motors for propulsion, with a cylinder capacity not exceeding 1,000 cc.” Sounds like a Nautilus hybrid to us. Even if that displacement figure applies to the entire internal-combustion engine and not just one cylinder, tariff item 8703.40.90 covers anything of 1,000 cc or more.
In a similar lane, Canada is also currently engaged in a 30-day consultation related to surtaxes on Chinese batteries and critical minerals.
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