Australian electric vehicle sales by month and by model in 2024

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• There is no doubt in my investor mind - gungy sticky (idiot Arab driven) fossil fuels are dead dead dead. The battery is THE tech of the 21st century -and Christ we are only 20 or so years truly into it thus far. Just wait!

  • The fossil fuel people have bought Trump, so he's their man. He'll turn back the EV revolution if he can.

    But I'm a Never Trump Guy.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/0pB9I8f1ZzE
    

    • Trump stumped his first election on the promise to save the coal industry only so see it crash even further. He is only a man, this EV, Renewables "thing" is far too big even for him. He4 might keep the Chinese out for a couple of years but Tesla will continue to grow as more and more people wake up to the idiocy of fossil fuels. They were good in their time, but now it is time for EVs and renewables...bye bye Big Oil.

    • Musk ‘interviews’ Trump shortly. Seriously?
      https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-announce-major-interview-elon-musk/

    • Dts can be fixed

    • I was an outright Trump hater as well however when you dig deeper US politics is just a cesspit of misinformation. Biden is owned by a bunch of energy and other corporations and has approved many new fossil projects to keep their support. Remember Harris has been in power for 4 years and talks about what she’s gonna do not what she’s done. Politics is the art of promising, not delivering.
      i also believe Musk is with Trump because the Democrats have systematically tried and failed to marginalise Tesla, Remember Biden got into bed with the auto unions and would not even speak the word Tesla while praising Mary Bara at GM for “leading the EV revolution”.

  • Just avoid the the danger of becoming a cult member. Stay rational.

    • If you own a electric car you have become a cult member

      • Nah. If you own an electric car you have saved yourself a flipping huge amount of operational cost ---cost which comes part and parcel of owning a 'traditional' noisy, inefficient fossil fueled costly sh*tbox

        • The most valuable thing we can ever have is time and just think of all the time plugging is saves, or not needing to get an oil change saves, or brake jobs, or tuneups, or exhaust system replacements etc. etc. Yes, more and more of us know the benefits of EVs are substantial and only getting better...compared to ICEs.

        • Oil change 15 minutes, what tune up as that disappeared 40 years ago.
          Evs use tyres more than my petrol car

        • Not wanting to be deliberately contrarian Tom, but in my experience, my lovely Skoda vRS wagon went through tyres faster than my current Model 3 Long Ranger.

        • My Model 3 currently over 40,000km on original tyres, probably need changing in 5 k or so. Previous petrol cars have been lucky to get 30k and same brand tyres. The reduced brake use and regen of the ev i think make a big difference.

        • That has been proven incorrect as you ay much more for a ev and charging

          As the lie I charge from home solar while I drive to work during the day

      • If you make a comment like that you have become an idiot!

    • I have as I did not join the ev cult

  • Who controls your battery china

    • Tom, me again, if you live off the land knitting your own garments, transport and house from hemp and gum, then you're quite within your rights to disparage Chinese products.

      The reality is, for the majority of Australians and most of the modern world, the "Made in China" moniker is on most of what you buy.

      PS.
      Invest in hemp.

  • 10 years ago, I bought a Subaru Liberty for $40,000 and earlier this year disposed of it for $15,000. That's $25,000 in depreciation over 10 years or $2,500 per year.

    If 1 purchase a new EV for, say,$60,000 and if it's worth, say, $5,000 after 10 years, that's $55,000 in depreciation or $5,500 per year The extra $3,000 per year would be more than the excess of petrol costs over electricity costs. Not to mention the inconvenience, fire risk, higher insurance and tyre costs, anxiety, etc.

    I thought long and hard about buying an EV. For about five seconds!

    • Nice try, just hoping you don’t rely on maths for your day job.

    • Petrol cars are hundreds of times more likely to catch on fire. If you charge from home (like most EVA owners do) electricity cost will be about an eighth of equivalent petrol cost.
      Yes, having to stop and fill is an inconvenience that EV owners avoid by plug and charge overnight.
      Insurance was 2% higher than my previous car but the EV value is 15% higher.
      Whilst tyre wear is slightly higher brake wear is around 60% lower because of regen.
      There isn't a ten year old EV for sale in my neighbourhood for less than 25% of original cost (a Leaf).
      When the conflict escalates in the Israel/Palestine area wait for petrol prices to sky-rocket and there is already evidence of this.

    • In about next five years EV owner may have to pay tax on their mileage, since they are avoiding fuel tax. In addition to that, they may also have to pay a great cost to dispose of the old batterie, since its radioactive material involved in the recycling process. other than that, its sales well. Although is not the car suit every lifestyle. I'll wait and see what's happen when El Neno become active, and we will experience very hot over 40 degrees dry weather.

  • Petrol station numbers globally have been steadily declining since around 2017.
    We soon will see more pumps retired at existing stations to be replaced by charging bays, as is happening in Norway.

• Hi Tim,

  Thank you for these numbers.

  The July numbers total 5,762, whereas Riz mentioned a total sales number of 6,743.

  When can we get the missing numbers for July, and for some models, like the Ford Transit, even the last four months?

  • Hi Kamil,

    It's a slightly complicated answer due to the way we need to collect the data unfortunately as there is no single source of truth. The short answer is the total in the spreadsheet here is simply the tally from all of the models we currently have data for, whereas the Riz number is an aggregate number reported by the FCAI. Once we start filling in more of the blanks with data from individual manufacturers the gap will close.

    Thanks,
    Tim

  • .

  • Riz and his often porky pies

• A few models missing including the Mini Countryman Electric. I know they were on sale in July because I bought one. Why has BMW stopped reporting iX1 figures?

  • Mini Countryman is now included, with 139 sales for June, July and August.

• Maybe put the total in the second column. Not easy to read on a phone (which is where most people will consume this).

  • And then this month, last month, back to begining of year.

  • Done, I've reversed the month order as well as suggested by Miking below, which does make it easier to read as the end of the year approaches. Thank you both for the feedback!

    • Thanks. Much better.

• I'm glad my photo of all the BYDs that was taken from a BYD Facebook group is getting another feature. It was one of the first car transporters with BYD Dolphins in Melbourne.

  • Thanks Rhett, that captures the reality that is Frankston.

• As an owner of an EX30, I'm glad sales are still strong. A brilliant acr.

  • On track to match last year, petrol car sales are to match or better electric car sales for new cars 4 to 1

• Tesla's reputation in Australia is tanking
  https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-08-22/tesla-reputation-falling-as-elon-musk-alienates-ev-buyers/104229840

  • Imagine buying a computer with Linux OS just because Bill Gates is a dick.
    Idiots all of them IMO

    • Almost as dumb as buying a Tesla because you think Musk is the messiah .
      All depends on your political outlook really .
      Now I wouldn't buy a Tesla for a whole load of non-political reasons , but it would also be comforting to know I wouldn't be contributing to the coffers of a sociopath on the spectrum ,who I worry about being a danger to democracy.
      As far as Gates is concerned , I managed to avoid the fear that injectable nanobots are sterilizing me.

      But lets face it most of us buy cars with a large dollop of emotion involved.
      There is no logical reason to drive around a Beemer vs a Toyota for instance.
      Musk has to have damaged his brand ,

    • That one reason is enough to switch from Windows. ;)

• Does GM not sell anything in Australia?

  • Not much, no.

  • GM quit all right hand drive markets when the Commodore stopped being made (2016ish). Seeing a Cadillac her is a change of policy.

  • GM abandoned Australia in 2017 throwing all Holden cars and dealers under a bus.
    They intend to import Cadillac EVs soon. I won't support GM after what they did.
    They abandoned all RH drive companies at the same time.

• How did 1 Q4 sneak in there? That car isn't even available yet.

  • The single sale in June was reported in the FCAI VFacts report, but I agree it is a bit odd, must be an early test or press vehicle.

• Seems to be slowing and might just get to last years figures