An enormous month of August deliveries from Tesla, coinciding with the native launch of the Mannequin Y SUV, drove month-to-month BEV market share to what’s being described as an all-time excessive for Australia.
Electrical car (EV) gross sales totalled 4235 in August, 80 per cent of which wore a Tesla badge.
This general EV tally is equal to 4.4 per cent of the overall market. Whereas the determine for March 2022 was 5.5 per cent, that in truth included three months’ value of Tesla gross sales.
“EV gross sales had been 4.4 per cent of the overall market. That is the very best market share for pure battery electrical automobiles ever recorded in a single month in Australia,” stated FCAI chief government Tony Weber.
“12 months-to-date EV gross sales are 2 per cent of the overall market, hybrids are 7.6 per cent and plug-in hybrid automobiles are 0.6 per cent.
“Mixed electrified automobiles at the moment are simply over 10 per cent of whole gross sales,” he added.
Tesla was additionally the seventh best-selling model general for August, outselling manufacturers similar to MG (3074 gross sales), Subaru (2960 gross sales), and Isuzu Ute (2800 gross sales).
It was nonetheless a far cry away from Toyota, the top-selling model for the month, which bought a complete of 20,616 automobiles.
In August it bought a complete of 2380 Mannequin 3 sedans, making it the top-selling passenger car for the month and the fourth top-selling car general.
The Mannequin 3 was overwhelmed by the Toyota HiLux (6214 gross sales), Ford Ranger (4497), and the Toyota RAV4 (2482) for general gross sales in August.
It outsold the likes of the Toyota LandCruiser (2379 gross sales), Mazda CX-5 (2325), Toyota Corolla (2115), and the Mitsubishi Triton (2087).
Within the luxurious medium passenger car phase, the Tesla Mannequin 3 considerably outsold its closest opponents, the Mercedes-Benz C-Class (306 gross sales) and BMW 3 Collection (252).
Tesla additionally delivered 1017 examples of its newly-launched Mannequin Y SUV throughout August.
It was the top-selling luxurious mid-sized SUV within the nation, outselling the BMW X3 (420 gross sales), Mercedes-Benz GLC wagon (316), Volvo XC60 (299), and the Audi Q5 (227).
Over the previous couple of months Tesla has been experiencing manufacturing delays at its Chinese language manufacturing plant.
The final time Tesla recorded an analogous variety of month-to-month gross sales was again in March 2022 when it recorded 4417 gross sales of its Mannequin 3. The Mannequin Y wasn’t on sale but.
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