Australians took supply of a file 87,430 electrical automobiles (EVs) in 2023, equal to roughly 7.0 per cent whole market share and up on quantity by 160 per cent over 2022.
There at the moment are 27 completely different manufacturers promoting a minimum of one EV, with 61 fashions between them.
Of the overall EV gross sales, 65.8 per cent had been SUVs, 33.7 per cent had been conventional passenger automobiles, and the remaining 0.5 per cent had been a smattering of light- and heavy industrial automobiles.
Manufacturers
High of the pops is Tesla with 46,116 gross sales from two fashions, equal to nearly 53 per cent sector share, forward of BYD with 12,438 gross sales from three fashions. These two OEMs mixed accounted for exactly two-thirds of the overall EV market.
Subsequent so as had been MG with 5928 EV gross sales from its two fashions, forward of Volvo (3949 gross sales from two fashions) and Mercedes-Benz (3188 gross sales, with a market-highest 10 particular person fashions).
Rounding out the highest 10 had been Kia (3039 gross sales from three fashions), BMW (2990 gross sales from six fashions), Polestar (2463 gross sales from its sole mannequin), Hyundai (2417 gross sales from 4 fashions), and Cupra (887 gross sales from one mannequin).
EV gross sales for 2023 by model:
Fashions
The 5 top-selling fashions had been the Tesla Mannequin Y (28,769, making it the market’s third top-selling SUV of any kind), Tesla Mannequin 3 (17,347), BYD Atto 3 (11,042), MG 4 (3134 after just some months on sale), and Volvo XC40 Recharge (2846).
Rounding out the highest 10 had been the MG ZS EV (2794, slightly below 10 per cent of all ZS gross sales), Polestar 2 (2463 gross sales), Kia EV6 (1831 gross sales), Mercedes-Benz EQA (1196), and Volvo C40 Recharge (1103).
Fascinatingly, eight of the highest 10 fashions are all made in China for the Australian market, and all the high six had been. The truth is, China produced 72,402 EVs bought in Australia final 12 months, equal to greater than 80 per cent of the overall!
EV gross sales for 2023 by mannequin:
Areas
Can you notice the outlier right here? The EV market share within the 4 largest regional markets of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia sits between 6.7 and seven.7 per cent, with Tasmania (6.5 per cent) and even South Australia (5.5 per cent) additionally within the ballpark.
It’s the 2 Territories which might be the outliers: The Australian Capital Territory enjoys outsized EV share of 18.3 per cent because of the proliferation of presidency businesses, and the Northern Territory’s EV share languishes at 2.7 per cent – have to be all these broad open areas.
Gross sales by propulsion or gas kind:
Petrol: 588,622 gross sales, up 6.7 per centDiesel: 379,512 gross sales, up 5.0 per centHybrid: 98,439 gross sales, up 20.3 per centElectric: 87,217 gross sales, up 161.1 per centPHEV: 11,212 gross sales, up 8.8 per cent
Some earlier month-to-month experiences
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