We’re now 1 / 4 of a manner into 2024, offering the primary main marker for this yr’s new-car gross sales race.
Document deliveries have grabbed the headlines, and the electrical car (EV) market continues to develop, now accounting for eight per cent of all new automobiles, SUVs, utes and vans offered in Australia.
Regardless of subsidies being pulled in New South Wales and Victoria, the section has grown by 46.4 per cent in comparison with the identical interval in 2023, with 25,468 EVs registered in Australia between January and March 2024.
It must be no shock that Tesla – the world’s EV chief – accounts for the lion’s share, with its Mannequin Y SUV and facelifted Mannequin 3 sedan combining for 12,789 gross sales, or a hair greater than 50 per cent of all battery-powered car gross sales regionally.
Gross sales of the Mannequin Y have elevated by 115 per cent above the primary quarter of 2023, regardless of a ship understood to be carrying a big cargo of the best-selling EV being turned again to China earlier this yr for quarantine.
The BYD Atto 3 remains to be hanging on in third on 2220 gross sales, although the Chinese language model’s new Mannequin 3-rivalling Seal sedan is closing the hole on 1573 deliveries, having surpassed the MG 4 hatchback which now holds the fifth spot.
Regardless of being carefully priced to the MG 4, the BYD Dolphin has about half the gross sales of its fellow Chinese language rival with 688 examples delivered to this point this yr, solely simply forward of the dearer Kia EV6 (589 gross sales).
The remaining high 10 spots are stuffed by the Hyundai Kona Electrical (502 gross sales), the BMW iX1 (476 gross sales) and the Volvo XC40 Recharge (444 gross sales).
Polestar – the quasi spinoff of Volvo – sits behind the XC40 Recharge with its mechanically associated Polestar 2.
The Polestar 2 can be near being overtaken by the Toyota bZ4X, the Japanese automobile large’s extremely anticipated first EV which started its native rollout in February.
The GWM Ora might stand up the charts from its present sixteenth place inside the subsequent quarter, after nationwide drive-away pricing introduced this week made it the most affordable EV in Australia once more, now ranging from $35,990.
By way of how a lot the EV variants of sure fashions are serving to its nameplate’s gross sales, the LDV eT60 ute stays a low contributor for the model, with the 5 examples offered this yr accounting for simply 2.7 per cent of the dual-cab’s native deliveries.
Different EVs that are area of interest variants of a wider mannequin vary embody the Mini Cooper SE (3.1 per cent of Mini Cooper gross sales), the MG ZS EV (4.6 per cent of ZS gross sales) and the Ford E-Transit (5.5 per cent of Transit gross sales).
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