Tesla has formally introduced it has reached 100,000 electrical automobiles (EV) offered in Australia, 13 years after it first arrived Down Underneath.
The US electrical carmaker at the moment solely sells the associated Mannequin 3 sedan and Mannequin Y SUV in Australia, that are each sourced from China for our market.
The flagship Mannequin S sedan and Mannequin X SUV are now not provided in Australia as they’re now not produced in right-hand drive.
Tesla additionally hasn’t confirmed the outlandish Cybertruck electrical pickup will likely be produced for right-hand have drive markets, though the corporate was beforehand permitting Australians to pre-order.
Final yr Tesla was the eighth best-selling model in Australia regardless of solely providing two automobiles domestically, outselling the likes of Subaru, Isuzu Ute (which additionally solely affords two automobiles), Volkswagen and Nissan.
It offered a complete of 46,116 automobiles, with the cut up being 17,347 Mannequin 3s and 28,769 Mannequin Ys.
The latter is notable as a result of regardless of being the sixth best-selling car total, it was technically the top-selling car amongst personal consumers in Australia final yr. It was additionally the world’s best-selling car in 2023.
Tesla additionally lately launched a brand new replace to the Mannequin 3 referred to internally as ‘Highland’, although its native rollout was interrupted by a short stop-sale and subsequent recall earlier this yr.
This was on account of a compliance breach, because it didn’t have an simply accessible top-tether anchorage for its rear-middle seat.
Till the top of February this yr, Tesla has offered a complete of 6772 automobiles, which is down 0.8 per cent year-on-year. Nearly two-thirds of this gross sales determine (4316) have been Mannequin 3s, whereas the remaining 2456 examples have been Mannequin Ys.
Tesla first launched within the Australian market in 2011 with the first-generation Roadster, which used the platform from the Lotus Elise.
The Mannequin S flagship sedan launched domestically in 2014 and was subsequently adopted by the Mannequin X flagship SUV in 2017.
Tesla launched the Mannequin 3 in Australia in 2019 and adopted it up with the associated Mannequin Y SUV in 2022.
The corporate solely began reporting gross sales figures by way of month-to-month VFACTS business gross sales stories in 2022.
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