Mid-size electrical SUV mania: What number of Tesla Mannequin Y rivals are actually on sale?

Of the 83,805 electrical autos (EVs) offered in Australia to October this yr, greater than half had been SUVs and most of them had been mid-size.

That shouldn’t come as an excessive amount of of a shock, given SUVs overtook passenger vehicles because the nation’s hottest new car sort virtually a decade in the past in 2017.

And given medium SUVs have lengthy been the one largest new-vehicle section – by way of each gross sales and the variety of fashions competing – it’s solely pure that mid-size electrical SUVs are additionally the best-selling EVs.

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The Tesla Mannequin Y is the preferred of them, promoting up a storm because it arrived in Australia in mid-2022, and changing into the nation’s hottest EV in 2023.

Certainly the Mannequin Y is now as ubiquitous because the Toyota Camry as soon as was, with virtually 18,000 offered to this point this yr to October, and automakers are scrambling to launch rivals that search to assert a bit of the motion.

There are actually 32 mid-size electrical SUVs on sale in Australia throughout the mainstream and luxurious segments, with many extra to return.

Right here’s a rundown of what’s accessible, not solely autos that sit inside the Mannequin Y’s section in VFACTS business gross sales experiences but additionally different equally sized electrical SUVs that logically rival the Tesla.