A ship carrying “properly over” 4000 new Teslas is reportedly set to dock in NSW earlier than Christmas, which might be the biggest Tesla cargo ever to come back to Australia.
The information comes from established Tesla delivery tracker VedaPrime, which claims 12 ships have arrived carrying Teslas in the course of the fourth quarter of this yr.
A thirteenth was scheduled to reach however now gained’t dock till the primary quarter of 2023.
MSC Immacolata, carrying Teslas and no different automobiles, is en path to Port Kembla after a cease in Brisbane and is about to dock on December 21.
The delivery tracker additionally notes the 4000+ automobiles on board the MSC Immacolata beats your entire first yr of Mannequin 3s shipped to Australia in only one cargo.
It’s unclear when buyer deliveries of this cargo will start, or what number of automobiles have been on the opposite 11 ships which docked in Australia this quarter.
17,328 Tesla gross sales have been recorded in VFACTS this yr, consisting of 9071 Mannequin 3 sedans and 8257 Mannequin Y SUVs.
Tesla mentioned earlier this yr it was trying to extra evenly unfold out its deliveries over 1 / 4, and its month-to-month gross sales figures within the second half of this yr have definitely been extra constant.
As a substitute of see-sawing from a large variety of gross sales to nearly none within the following month, Tesla recorded 2196 gross sales in November (1805 of which have been Mannequin Ys), plus 1109 in October, and 5969 in September.
The latter was its highest-volume month in 2022, the primary yr it has reported gross sales in VFACTS; it began doing so in March.
Although 2022 has already proved to be Tesla’s greatest yr for gross sales in Australia, the corporate has needed to deal with COVID-19 lockdowns in China – the place Australian-market Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Ys are constructed – which have interrupted provide chains and compelled it to briefly shut its Shanghai plant.
Tesla mentioned in a launch of its second-quarter monetary and manufacturing outcomes that it was “targeted on a record-breaking second half of 2022” when it comes to automobile manufacturing.
Tesla Inc. Chair Robyn Denholm, an Australian, additionally mentioned in July she “wouldn’t be stunned” if the variety of Teslas on Australian roads doubled by the tip of the yr, quoting a determine of 26,500 of the model’s automobiles already on native roads.
To double its current fleet by yr’s finish, it will have to promote greater than 30,000 automobiles this yr – nonetheless a little bit of a attain, with 17,328 gross sales recorded to the tip of November.
Tesla’s Shanghai plant can produce over 750,000 vehicles yearly, making it the highest-capacity Tesla plant on this planet.
