In its monthly VFACTS report, the FCAI -FELTAL Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) reports new vehicle deliveries in Australia. However, this report does not contain the complete picture.
Vfacts have been around since 1992 and the main actors are mostly included today, while the list of car brands includes everything from Abarth to Zeekr. Even exotic brands such as Ferrari and Rolls-Royce include their delivery numbers.
But not every brand is included, and even if you include those who now exclusively report your sales figures to the Electric Vehicle Council (EVC), the last year does not apply a record of 1,237,287 new vehicle deliveries in Australia. Is it a lot? Not in the great scheme of things, but it is over.
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So who misses? Australia’s best -selling electric vehicle (EV) brand for one and a number of brands with a lower volume. Here is a collapse.
Cadillac and GMC
General Motors Australia and New Zealand (GM Anz) currently reports to the deliveries of vehicles packed with Chevrolet, which are sold via his GM Specialty Vehicles (GMSV) Retail Network.
However, it has confirmed that there is no figures for the recently launched Cadillac and GMC brands … at least not yet.
GMSV will shortly begin the delivery of the GMC Yukon Denali Large SUV, while the deliveries of Cadillacs only started in Australia – the Lyriq Electric SUV – began at the beginning of this year. Only one vehicle with GMC brands was confirmed for Australia, although the Cadillac setup 2026 is expanded with smaller OptiQ and larger Vistiq SUVs.
GM Anzi would not share sales goals or order numbers for the Yukon, while he previously said that the Lyriq will sell in “exclusive volumes”.
Do not expect these models to appear in Vfacts reports this year.
“We decided not to go this year because it is not a whole year of sales, it would not be representative for us for a whole year” Carexpert in April.
Deeper
In December 2024, the Chinese brand Deepal only started the delivery of its debut vehicle, the medium -sized S07 Electric SUV.
It has confirmed two other models for our market, the E07 UTE/SUV chimeren and the S05 Small Electric SUV, but so far it has not yet had to report its sales in the monthly VFACT report.
“While our impulse builds up, we aim at Vfacts, which reports from the second half of 2025-a important step when we go beyond the start phase and position the brand for long-term growth,” said a spokesman for Deepal Australia.
Ineos
Ineo’s automotive is a young brand that only started manufacturing her first vehicle in 2022.
Local deliveries of the Great Grenadier Off-Road SUV began later this year, and Ineos’ debut model was then accompanied by Quartermaster Ute and Cab/Chassis models.
But it never reported on its delivery figures in Vfacts and we asked Ineos when that could change.
Mahindra
The Indian car manufacturer Mahindra has been selling vehicles in Australia since 2007, but has never reported its delivery figures in the monthly VFACTS report.
We contacted Mahindra Australia for a comment.
It offered a UTE from day one, while it is currently also selling two medium to large SUVs, the XUV700 crossover and the Scorpio-OFROADER. Utes, medium SUVs and large SUVs are the most popular vehicle types in Australia.
Mahindra has long focused on regional customers, especially with the color-friendly pik-up, but it has opened more exhibition rooms in subway areas. It is unclear whether this is a prelude to Mahindra and reports its sales in our market.
Clever
Smart returned to Australia at the end of 2024 and was imported by the largest Mercedes-Benz retailer in Australia, LSH Auto.
Smart, only an electrical brand, offers small SUVs No. 1 and No. 3, whereby the medium -sized No. 5 is due here later this year.
A spokesman for the brand said that Smart has delivered more than 500 vehicles since the start of local sales in October 2024. UP-SPEC variants made a “high percentage” of the initial sales.
Xpeng
The Chinese EV brand Xpeng was launched last year under importer and distributor True EV, with the deliveries starting towards the end of 2024.
So far, the brand only offers one model, the G6 medium-sized electric SUV.
“We appreciate the interest in Xpeng’s progress in Australia and understand the curiosity of reporting figures,” a spokesman for the company told Carexpert.
“We are currently priority in building a strong basis for the long -term success of Xpeng on the market. If we continue to grow on site, we rate the best approach to industry reporting in relation to our long -term strategy.”
There are two other EV brands that do not report their sales in Vfacts. However, you report your sales figures in the EVC monthly report, which means that we have to put together these figures manually every month.
Tesla
In March 2024, Tesla returned the FCAI, the Peak lobby group for car brands in Australia, and accused them of showing “demonstrably false” claims about the new new vehicle efficiency standard of the Federal Government (NVVE).
It was also confirmed that the reporting numbers in VFACTS reports would be posted after July, according to which it only reported its deliveries in the monthly report of the EVC.
Although it is not a prerequisite for a company to be an FCAI member or report its sales via VFACTs, costs are involved.
Tesla has been the best-selling EV brand in Australia for some time, although it has suffered a significant drop in sales this year. It delivered 3394 vehicles by the end of April to trace 57.6 percent in the same period of the previous year.
This made it possible to drive past, and 3487 deliveries were recorded in the EV model lines-this is less than half of the entire Tally as soon as plug-in hybrids are contained.
Tesla was not only the number one brand in Australia in 2024, but also sold the two most popular EVS Australia. It remains to be seen whether it can repeat this feat this year, even though it has a tough start.
Polestar
Polestar reported Vfacts’ sales, but heard when the Chinese-Swedish brand withdrew its membership from the FCAI in March 2024.
Samantha Johnson, the local head of the company at the time, struck the FCAI for his comment on the NNVes that had not yet been enacted.
In a letter to the FCAI, Ms. Johsnon said that the FCAI “may have irrevocably damaged the perception and trust of consumers into the proposed politics” and that “it does not continue to allow its member fees to finance a campaign in order to deliberately slow down the contribution of the auto industry to the Australia reduction potential for the reduction of the Australia”.
Since then, its numbers have only reported to the EVC lobby group, and it is not planned to return to reporting on VFACT reporting.
“Polestar withdrew from the FCAI in March 2024 because it was brought to Australia against reasonable emission standards that could bring cleaner cars to Australia in the run-up to the new vehicle efficiency standards (NVVE),” said a spokesman for Polestar Australia.
By the end of April, Polestar Australia delivered 591 vehicles this year. This has increased by 32.2 percent in the same period of the previous year, with the medium -sized SUV from Polestar 4 and the large SUV Polestar 3 join the Polestar 2 Fastback.
