Australia's best-selling EVs in the first half of 2025
According to data supplied by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) and the Electric Vehicle Council (EVC), Tesla delivered 14,156 EVs in the first half of 2025, placing it well ahead of second-placed BYD at 8556.
BYD is outselling Tesla overall too, notching up 23,355 deliveries year-to-date including its plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs).
Below is a Flourish chart showing all brands that sell EVs in Australia, and how many they each delivered in the first half of 2025.
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A total of 624,130 new vehicles were delivered in Australia during the first six months of 2025, with a total of 47,245 of these being EVs – or 7.6 per cent overall.
In contrast, during the first half of 2024, Australians took delivery of 633,098 new vehicles, with a total of 50,905 of these being EVs – an 8.0 per cent share.
Notably, there are still some brands that don't report their delivery figures to either the FCAI or the EVC. These include Cadillac, Smart, and Xpeng, though holdout Deepal – which commenced customer deliveries last December – started reporting its figures in May 2025.
The Tesla Model Y remains Australia's best-selling EV by a country mile, and the arrival of a heavily updated model has helped boost sales in recent months.
While the second-placed BYD Sealion 7 is quite a bit behind, deliveries of the rival mid-size electric SUV only commenced in February and have ramped up, reaching a shocking 1795 in June – just over half the established Tesla brand's tally.
Another Tesla – the US brand's only other model in Australia, the Model 3 sedan – sat in third place despite a significant sales decline.
The MG 4 hatch and Kia EV5 mid-size SUV also remained in the top five overall.
Below is a flourish chart showing every EV sold in Australia during the first half of 2025, excluding models like the Cadillac Lyriq, Xpeng G6, and the Smart lineup, for which sales data isn't available.
We've also used VFACTS data to calculate how much of a nameplate's sales were attributable to EVs, where other powertrain types are available.
MORE: VFACTS: Australia's best-selling brands and models in the first half of 2025
Content originally sourced from: CarExpert.com.au
Tesla may have experienced a sales slump in recent months, but it's still Australia's number one electric vehicle (EV) brand by a huge margin.
According to data supplied by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) and the Electric Vehicle Council (EVC), Tesla delivered 14,156 EVs in the first half of 2025, placing it well ahead of second-placed BYD at 8556.
BYD is outselling Tesla overall too, notching up 23,355 deliveries year-to-date including its plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs).
Below is a Flourish chart showing all brands that sell EVs in Australia, and how many they each delivered in the first half of 2025.
Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now.
A total of 624,130 new vehicles were delivered in Australia during the first six months of 2025, with a total of 47,245 of these being EVs – or 7.6 per cent overall.
In contrast, during the first half of 2024, Australians took delivery of 633,098 new vehicles, with a total of 50,905 of these being EVs – an 8.0 per cent share.
Notably, there are still some brands that don't report their delivery figures to either the FCAI or the EVC. These include Cadillac, Smart, and Xpeng, though holdout Deepal – which commenced customer deliveries last December – started reporting its figures in May 2025.
The Tesla Model Y remains Australia's best-selling EV by a country mile, and the arrival of a heavily updated model has helped boost sales in recent months.
While the second-placed BYD Sealion 7 is quite a bit behind, deliveries of the rival mid-size electric SUV only commenced in February and have ramped up, reaching a shocking 1795 in June – just over half the established Tesla brand's tally.
Another Tesla – the US brand's only other model in Australia, the Model 3 sedan – sat in third place despite a significant sales decline.
The MG 4 hatch and Kia EV5 mid-size SUV also remained in the top five overall.
Below is a flourish chart showing every EV sold in Australia during the first half of 2025, excluding models like the Cadillac Lyriq, Xpeng G6, and the Smart lineup, for which sales data isn't available.
We've also used VFACTS data to calculate how much of a nameplate's sales were attributable to EVs, where other powertrain types are available.
MORE: VFACTS: Australia's best-selling brands and models in the first half of 2025
Content originally sourced from: CarExpert.com.au
Tesla may have experienced a sales slump in recent months, but it's still Australia's number one electric vehicle (EV) brand by a huge margin.
According to data supplied by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) and the Electric Vehicle Council (EVC), Tesla delivered 14,156 EVs in the first half of 2025, placing it well ahead of second-placed BYD at 8556.
BYD is outselling Tesla overall too, notching up 23,355 deliveries year-to-date including its plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs).
Below is a Flourish chart showing all brands that sell EVs in Australia, and how many they each delivered in the first half of 2025.
Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now.
A total of 624,130 new vehicles were delivered in Australia during the first six months of 2025, with a total of 47,245 of these being EVs – or 7.6 per cent overall.
In contrast, during the first half of 2024, Australians took delivery of 633,098 new vehicles, with a total of 50,905 of these being EVs – an 8.0 per cent share.
Notably, there are still some brands that don't report their delivery figures to either the FCAI or the EVC. These include Cadillac, Smart, and Xpeng, though holdout Deepal – which commenced customer deliveries last December – started reporting its figures in May 2025.
The Tesla Model Y remains Australia's best-selling EV by a country mile, and the arrival of a heavily updated model has helped boost sales in recent months.
While the second-placed BYD Sealion 7 is quite a bit behind, deliveries of the rival mid-size electric SUV only commenced in February and have ramped up, reaching a shocking 1795 in June – just over half the established Tesla brand's tally.
Another Tesla – the US brand's only other model in Australia, the Model 3 sedan – sat in third place despite a significant sales decline.
The MG 4 hatch and Kia EV5 mid-size SUV also remained in the top five overall.
Below is a flourish chart showing every EV sold in Australia during the first half of 2025, excluding models like the Cadillac Lyriq, Xpeng G6, and the Smart lineup, for which sales data isn't available.
We've also used VFACTS data to calculate how much of a nameplate's sales were attributable to EVs, where other powertrain types are available.
MORE: VFACTS: Australia's best-selling brands and models in the first half of 2025
Content originally sourced from: CarExpert.com.au
Tesla may have experienced a sales slump in recent months, but it's still Australia's number one electric vehicle (EV) brand by a huge margin.
According to data supplied by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) and the Electric Vehicle Council (EVC), Tesla delivered 14,156 EVs in the first half of 2025, placing it well ahead of second-placed BYD at 8556.
BYD is outselling Tesla overall too, notching up 23,355 deliveries year-to-date including its plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs).
Below is a Flourish chart showing all brands that sell EVs in Australia, and how many they each delivered in the first half of 2025.
Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now.
A total of 624,130 new vehicles were delivered in Australia during the first six months of 2025, with a total of 47,245 of these being EVs – or 7.6 per cent overall.
In contrast, during the first half of 2024, Australians took delivery of 633,098 new vehicles, with a total of 50,905 of these being EVs – an 8.0 per cent share.
Notably, there are still some brands that don't report their delivery figures to either the FCAI or the EVC. These include Cadillac, Smart, and Xpeng, though holdout Deepal – which commenced customer deliveries last December – started reporting its figures in May 2025.
The Tesla Model Y remains Australia's best-selling EV by a country mile, and the arrival of a heavily updated model has helped boost sales in recent months.
While the second-placed BYD Sealion 7 is quite a bit behind, deliveries of the rival mid-size electric SUV only commenced in February and have ramped up, reaching a shocking 1795 in June – just over half the established Tesla brand's tally.
Another Tesla – the US brand's only other model in Australia, the Model 3 sedan – sat in third place despite a significant sales decline.
The MG 4 hatch and Kia EV5 mid-size SUV also remained in the top five overall.
Below is a flourish chart showing every EV sold in Australia during the first half of 2025, excluding models like the Cadillac Lyriq, Xpeng G6, and the Smart lineup, for which sales data isn't available.
We've also used VFACTS data to calculate how much of a nameplate's sales were attributable to EVs, where other powertrain types are available.
MORE: VFACTS: Australia's best-selling brands and models in the first half of 2025
Content originally sourced from: CarExpert.com.au
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As many Australians have been struggling with the rise in the cost of living in recent years, the Labor government redesigned the stage three income tax cuts to make them fairer, ensuring that low- and middle-income earners received $84 billion more in benefits over the next decade than Scott Morrison would have delivered. While Morrison prioritised the highest income earners in the country, Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers had different priorities. We all pay GST, but private health insurance and private schools fees are exempt - is that fair? Private schools often include activities like swimming and music lessons as part of the curriculum, meaning they are included in the GST-free school fees. But parents who send their kids to public schools and pay extra for private swimming or music lessons, pay GST on them. Scott Morrison negotiated a GST top-up deal with WA - a resource-rich state - but smaller and poorer states like Tasmania miss out on additional revenue they need. 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Taxes are the price we pay for civilisation, but they are also a tool we can use to change the shape of our economy, not just its size. As the Treasurer embarks upon a national tax reform debate, it's important that the Australian public thinks about what we actually want to tax and how much. Who is paying too little tax? Are we taxing the right things? These are all democratic questions as much as economic ones. Taxes are just one of the ways that governments raise the revenue needed to provide the hospitals, schools, roads, aged care and social safety nets Australians rely on. The more tax a government collects, the bigger the public sector it can sustain. But who we choose to tax and how much has profound implications for fairness and equity. The fact is, Australia is one of the lowest-taxing countries in the developed world. Australia raises very little tax revenue compared to similar countries. 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- Canberra Times
Tax reform isn't hard. Slug multinationals and subsidise the things we want more of
We are one of the richest countries on Earth, yet our unemployment benefits are so low that those without a job are forced to skip meals and visits to the doctor and dentist. In fact, they are so low that they make it harder for those looking for work to find it because they don't have money to do basic things like travelling to interviews or buying professional clothing to present well at an interview. Australia spends less on the aged pension than most OECD nations, but we spend a hell of a lot giving superannuation tax concessions that mainly benefit the very wealthiest Australians. It makes no sense, but it's actually straightforward to fix.
