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

Of the 83,805 electrical autos (EVs) bought in Australia to October this 12 monthsgreater 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 automobile kind nearly a decade in the past in 2017.

And given medium SUVs have lengthy been the only largest new-vehicle phase – when it comes to 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 most well-liked of them, promoting up a storm because it arrived in Australia in mid-2022, and turning 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 nearly 18,000 bought thus far this 12 months to October, and automakers are scrambling to launch rivals that search to say a bit of the motion.

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

Right here’s a rundown of what’s out there, taking a look at not solely autos that sit throughout the Mannequin Y’s phase in VFACTS trade gross sales experiences but additionally different equally sized electrical SUVs that logically rival the Tesla.