Australia’s best-selling EVs midway via 2024

There are simply six months left in 2024 – or we’ve simply accomplished six months of the 12 months, relying in your outlook – and Australia’s electrical car (EV) gross sales race is shaping as much as be something however a good contest.

Towards an total market which is 8.7 per cent up on 2023’s report numbers with 632,412 autos delivered to this point this 12 months, EVs have contributed 50,219 gross sales – although this doesn’t embody Polestar figures after it stopped reporting VFACTS knowledge.

This determine is up by 16.5 per cent on the identical interval final 12 months, although EVs nonetheless solely account for lower than eight per cent of the brand new car market.

If not for international chief Tesla, it will be a really totally different story, because the US EV large’s Mannequin Y SUV and Mannequin 3 sedan have mixed for 23,116 gross sales within the opening half of 2023, experiencing a drop on final 12 months’s outcomes and barely dipping under half of the market share.

Whereas its challengers aren’t closing in at an alarming fee, BYD has confirmed – each in Australia and abroad – to be its nearest competitor, occupying third, fourth and sixth on the gross sales charts with its Seal sedan, Atto 3 SUV and Dolphin Hatchback.

The MG 4 continues to outperform its Dolphin and GWM Ora rivals by putting itself fifth amongst the EV market, effectively and really making use of the model’s new-generation platform.

Maybe surprisingly given their worth, the BMW iX1 (the electrical X1) and i4 (electrical 4 Collection Gran Coupe) are among the many hottest EVs in Australia, outselling the Kia EV6 and Volvo’s C40/XC40 Recharge twins.

Volvo’s new EX30, the carmaker’s least expensive EV, seems to be an awesome success for the model domestically, debuting in Might and already slotting into eleventh place for the 12 months, usurping its Polestar 2 cousin which has acquired worth cuts to attempt to climb up the gross sales chart.

Curiously, 39 of the 64 EVs on sale in Australia come from electric-only nameplates, and all however one of many 15 best-sellers account for at the very least half of a mannequin’s gross sales – even when they’ve barely totally different names.

Regardless of receiving worth cuts to change into Australia’s least expensive EV, the GWM Ora hasn’t been in a position to transfer from its sixteenth place within the gross sales charts, and it’s liable to shedding the spot to the costlier Toyota bZ4X, the Japanese large’s first EV in native showrooms.

Australia’s solely factory-backed electrical ute, the LDV eT60 continues to contribute little to the model’s gross sales, with simply eight examples delivered to this point this 12 months – accounting for lower than 1 / 4 of a % of T60 gross sales.

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