EV winners and losers: Full sales data for August and 2023 year to date

The Driven has managed to gather all, or at least nearly all, the sales data for electric vehicles in Australia for the month of August and the year to date.

The clear winners are still the two Tesla offerings, the Model Y and the Model 3, which take the top two places, followed by the well received BYD Atto 3, which is heading for well over 10,000 sales for the year.

The rest are trailing a long way behind. The next best selling car, the MG ZS EV, appears to have hit a slump in sales in August and dropped to eight for the month, possibly as consumers turn their attention towards the lower priced and newer MG4.

Other strong movers in the month are the newly launched EVs with sub-$40,000  variants, the MG4 – which debuted at number 5 for its first month of sales with 296. The GWM Ora added much fewer in the month, just 90 to take its total to 212.

The Volvo XC recharge and the  Kia EV6 also did well, with the latter possibly benefiting from sale of the high performance GT version, and the Cupra Born also had one of its better months for the year.

See also our Australia EV Monthly report on the Australian electric vehicle market, which features exclusive data, forecasts and insights, and industry news. It’s available for purchase on our sister site, RenewEconomy.

Riz Akhtar

Riz is the founder of carloop based in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV data, insight reports and trends. He is a mechanical engineer who spent the first 7 years of his career building transport infrastructure before starting carloop. He has a passion for cars, particularly EVs and wants to help reduce transport emissions in Australia. He currently drives a red Tesla Model 3.