Just noticed this at http://www.caradvice.com.au/328305/new-car-sales-figures-2014-total/ They don't have Tesla - I assume because the figures are derived from self-reporting to the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries by its members. Here is the original http://www.fcai.com.au/news/news/all/all/379/2014-new-car-sales-results but you have to pay for detailed data which obviously some news outlets do. I guess that there were around 180 Teslas delivered up to late January. Given the investment by Tesla they must be targeting well over 1,000 cars this year. – it will be interesting to see if sales of other luxury cars are impacted. Tesla should outsell the BMW 5 and the 7 series put together, Jaguar and the MB S class. It would also be the clear leader in the Large Car above $100k where the total segment was only 1072 cars in 2014. 2014 Car Sales Large Car – above $70,000 – Segment Winners: Mercedes-Benz E-class (1,570 – 32.7%) BMW 5 Series (882 – 18.4%) Jaguar XF (846 – 17.6%) TOTAL (DERIVED) 4,801 Upper Large Car Segment Winners: Chrysler 300 (1,580 – 56.4%) Holden Caprice (1,218 – 43.5%) TOTAL DERIVED 2,801 Upper Large Car – above $100,000 – Segment Winners: Mercedes-Benz S-Class (326 – 30.4%) Maserati Sedan (302 – 28.2%) BMW 7 Series (127 – 11.9%) TOTAL DERIVED 1072 Sports – above $80,000 – Segment Winners: BMW 4 Series Coupe/Convertible (2,201 – 28.7%) Mercedes-Benz C-class Coupe (1,851 – 24.1%) Mercedes-Benz E-class Coupe/Convertible (1,239 – 16.1%) TOTAL DERIVED 7,669 Supercars (200k+) Segment Winners: Porsche 911 (366 – 27.7%) BMW 6 Series (252 – 19.1%) Ferrari Coupe/Conv (113 – 8.6%) TOTAL DERIVED 1321 Also from the Caradvice.com article the smaller marques (not models) in the luxury / sports bracket follow – Tesla should outsell Jaguar. Jaguar 1,167 Infiniti 441 Maserati 401 Bentley 135 Ferrari 113 Aston Martin 107 Lotus 61 Rolls-Royce 39 Lamborghini 27 McLaren 26 Morgan 16 Caterham 3 Cheers (I got bored working...) Higgy
And see http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/42865-US-Market-Share-Tesla-vs-Large-Luxury-Cars?p=913272&viewfull=1#post913272 for the US stats.
Higgy not sure if they will sell more than 1000 cars this year? That means they would need to sell close to 100 every month, which means 3 a day. Do you think that's possible? I mean, I certainly hope it is...but given the initial rollout sales are over and the P85D upgrade cycle is over, I'm not sure if they are going to hit 1000 this year?
Maybe - I guess time will tell...I would hope sales escalate as the story spreads and now they have teams on the ground and are building display centres and SC stations.
I think they will easily do 3 a day here. At Sydney they seem to be delivering 2-3 a day at the moment and they are always booked full for test drives.
Some interesting albeit limited data is NSW registration statistics available here. RMS Registration Statistics Passenger vehicles With the motive power of Electric were June 30 2014 - 362 September 30 2014 - 369, so 7 Leafs sold or 6 Leafs and 1 Model S demonstrator December 31 2104 - 456, which is an additional 87. Subtract 7 Leafs and that's 80 Model S And BMW i3s. Have they started to deliver i3s yet?
If you go down that page a bit to: 5. Manufacturer by vehicle type - registered vehicles as at (date) and select 2014:q4, against Tesla you see 65 (for the quarter in NSW).
Now if I could only find out the Victorian registration figures....I estimate that some 180 cars were brought in up to Dec/Jan. That leaves around 115, some would be NSW registrations in Jan - most would be for the other states.
Not sure which link you are checking. Under http://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?fuseaction=statstables.show&cat=Registration you can see 5. Manufacturer by vehicle type - registered vehicles as at (date) and for 2014:Q4 telsa has 65 and now under 2015:Q5 tesla has 119. More info under my post here http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/2355-Tesla-in-Australia?p=993051#post993051,
Hong Kong Model S deliveries started in July 2014. Although Tesla Motors sales figures are attempted to be kept in the dark, we are quite certain that there are more than 1,000 Model S on the streets of Hong Kong already, even since not long after New Year. Good luck for the expansion into Australia. You have good room for large cars like the Model S on roads and parking lots, while that's a bit of an issue in Hong Kong. On the other hand - we don't have to deal with long driving distances as a "long trip" in Hong Kong is less than 100 km!