Trailblazer Tesla continues to top the sales charts for electric vehicles in Australia – accounting for almost half of all electric cars sold even though its deliveries have dipped – according to official data for the first six months of this year.
However there are some upsets elsewhere in the list, which show a rapid rise among several emerging brands.
More than 50,000 electric cars have been reported as sold in Australia in the first six months this year, the first time they have eclipsed this tally over this period in a calendar year.
China’s BYD (Build Your Dreams) filled three of the Top Six positions – however all of BYD sales combined were still not enough to overtake any single Tesla model.
German car maker BMW also had two electric cars inside the Top 10, and the Kia EV6 did better than expected and ranks in ninth position so far this year.
In other upsets, the Toyota BZ4X – the first electric car to come from the world’s (and Australia’s) top-selling automotive brand – has outsold its twin under the skin, the Subaru Solterra, by almost two-to-one.
In the commercial vehicle space, the LDV eDeliver 7 from China achieved an incredible feat, outselling the Ford E-Transit by almost three-to-one.
The most telling data of all, however, is the fact that, despite the $770,000 price tag, there were more examples sold of the Rolls-Royce Spectre electric car in the first six months of this year, than vehicles such as the LDV eT60 ute, Mazda MX-30 and LDV Mifa 9.
Figures show electric vehicles accounted for about 8 per cent of the total new vehicle market so far this year, a modest increase compared to 7.4 per cent of the market over the same period last year, according to the official scoreboard.
Here’s the full list below.
Sources: Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) and the Electric Vehicle Council of Australia (EVC).
Joshua Dowling has been a motoring journalist for more than 20 years, most of that time with Fairfax (The Sydney Morning Herald), News Corp Australia (Herald Sun and News.com.au), and most recently Drive.com.au (owned by Nine Media). He is also a World Car of the Year judge, has won numerous journalism awards, and test drives up to 200 cars per year.
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