A ship carrying “more than” 4000 new Teslas is expected to dock in NSW before Christmas, which will be the largest shipment of Tesla ever to Australia.
The news comes from the established Tesla shipping tracker VedaPrimeclaims 12 ships arrived carrying Teslas in the fourth quarter of this year.
The 13th was scheduled to arrive but will not now dock until the first quarter of 2023.
MSC Immacolata, carrying Teslas and no other vehicles, is en route to Port Kembla after a stop in Brisbane and will dock on December 21.
The shipping tracker also recorded over 4000 vehicles on board the MSC Immacolata beating the entire first year of sample 3s shipping to Australia in just one shipment.
It is unclear when customer deliveries of this shipment will begin or how many vehicles on the other 11 ships have docked in Australia this quarter.
Sales of 17,328 Teslas were recorded in this year’s VFACTS, including 9071 Model 3 and 8257 vehicles Model Y SUVs.
Tesla said earlier this year that it was looking for a way spread more evenly Its delivery numbers for more than a quarter and its monthly sales figures for the second half of the year have certainly been more stable.
Instead of seeing sales go from a huge number to virtually none the next month, Tesla recorded 2196 sales in November (1805 of them Model Y), plus 1109 in October and 5969 in September.
The second month was the highest sales month in 2022, the first year it reported sales in VFACTS; it started doing so in March.
Although 2022 has proven to be Tesla’s best sales year in Australia, the company has faced lockdowns due to COVID-19 in China – where the Model 3 and Model Y are made for the market. Australia – disrupted the supply chain and forced it to closing Shanghai factory for a short time.
Tesla said in a release of second-quarter financial and production results that it is “focused on the second half of 2022 hitting record levels” on vehicle production.
President of Tesla Inc. Robyn Denholm, Australian, also said in July She “wouldn’t be surprised” if the number of Tesla vehicles on Australia’s roads doubles by the end of the year, equating to the brand’s 26,500 vehicles already on local roads.
To double its current fleet by the end of the year, it will need to sell more than 30,000 vehicles this year – still a bit far, with 17,328 sales recorded as of the end of November.
Tesla’s Shanghai factory can produce more than 750,000 cars per year, making it the most productive Tesla factory in the world.
