A ship carrying “nicely over” 4000 new Teslas is reportedly set to dock in NSW earlier than Christmas, which might be the most important Tesla cargo ever to come back to Australia.
The information comes from established Tesla transport tracker VedaPrimewhich claims 12 ships have arrived carrying Teslas in the course of the fourth quarter of this 12 months.
A 13th was scheduled to reach however now will not dock till the primary quarter of 2023.
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MSC Immacolata, carrying Teslas and no different automobiles, is en path to Port Kembla after a cease in Brisbane and is about to dock on December 21.
The transport tracker additionally notes the 4000+ automobiles on board the MSC Immacolata beats the whole first 12 months of Model 3s shipped to Australia in only one cargo.
It is unclear when buyer deliveries of this cargo will start, or what number of automobiles have been on the opposite 11 ships which docked in Australia this quarter.
17,328 Tesla gross sales have been recorded in VFACTS this 12 months, consisting of 9071 Mannequin three sedans and 8257 Model Y SUVs.
Tesla mentioned earlier this 12 months it was trying to more evenly spread out its deliveries over 1 / 4, and its month-to-month gross sales figures within the second half of this 12 months have actually been extra constant.
As a substitute of seeing-sawing from a large variety of gross sales to just about none within the following month, Tesla recorded 2196 gross sales in November (1805 of which have been Mannequin Ys), plus 1109 in October, and 5969 in September.
The latter was its highest-volume month in 2022, the primary 12 months it has reported gross sales in VFACTS; it began doing so in March.
Though 2022 has already confirmed to be Tesla’s finest 12 months for gross sales in Australia, the corporate has needed to cope with COVID-19 lockdowns in China – the place Australian-market Mannequin three and Mannequin Ys are constructed – which have interrupted provide chains and compelled it to briefly closed its Shanghai plant.
Tesla mentioned in a launch of its second-quarter monetary and manufacturing outcomes that it was “targeted on a record-breaking second half of 2022” by way of car manufacturing.
Tesla Inc. Chair Robyn Denholm, an Australian, also said in July she “would not be stunned” if the variety of Teslas on Australian roads doubled by the tip of the 12 months, quoting a determine of 26,500 of the model’s automobiles already on native roads.
To double its current fleet by 12 months’s finish, it could must promote greater than 30,000 automobiles this 12 months – nonetheless a little bit of a attain, with 17,328 gross sales recorded to the tip of November.
Tesla’s Shanghai plant can produce over 750,000 vehicles yearly, making it the highest-capacity Tesla plant on the planet.
