Some interesting stats from the June 2026 sales figures

• 23.3% of all new vehicles sold were EVs – a record share for the fifth straight month
• More than one in three new vehicles sold had a plug (EVs plus PHEVs = 48,638)
• EVs outsold diesel vehicles for the first time – 32,570 v 31,789
• EVs outsold hybrids (20,741) for the second month running – this time by more than 11,800 vehicles
• Petrol’s lead over EVs is down to just 2147 sales; fewer than one in four new vehicles sold ran purely on petrol
• Sales of petrol vehicles dropped 29%; diesel dropped 18%
• PHEVs grew 158%, but are still only 11.5% of the market
• Tesla’s 8670 sales smashed its all-time brand record of 6433 it set only a month earlier
• The Model Y (8072) topped the sales charts for the second straight month – and outsold the entire Hyundai (7480), Kia (8005) and Mazda (7278) brands
• BYD finished just 243 sales behind Toyota, the closest any brand has been to the top seller in more than two decades
• Market leader Toyota sold only 192 EVs in June; BYD sold 10,174 – 53 times as many
• The BYD Shark 6 (3398) was Australia’s third-best-selling ute, behind the Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux but ahead of the Isuzu D-Max
• BYD’s Atto 1 city car (871) outsold the Toyota Yaris, Suzuki Swift and Mazda2 combined
• More vehicles came from China (55,516) than Japan (27,098) and Thailand (23,297) combined
• Toyota’s LandCruiser 70 ute crashed 87% to just 146 sales
• Zeekr (1954) – which is positioning itself as a premium brand – outsold Audi (1338) and Lexus (1367)
• Nissan (2337) was outsold by Omoda Jaecoo (2541), a brand that’s been here barely 18 months
• Sales winners: Zeekr +1660%, Omoda Jaecoo +569%, Geely +327%, BYD +131%, Chery +49%, MG +28%
• Sales losers: Subaru -37%, Porsche -34%, Nissan -33%, Mazda -23%, Mitsubishi -22%, Land Rover -31%
• PHEV SUVs (11,999) outsold diesel SUVs (8788)

Electric vehicles have outsold both hybrids and diesels in a single month for the first time, capping the biggest month of new-vehicle sales in Australian history.

Official June sales figures supplied by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries and EV Council show the EV tally in June 2026 topped a record 32,570 vehicles.

That’s 23.3 per cent of the 140,058 vehicles sold in June – almost one in four.

It’s the fifth consecutive month of record EV share, a run that started at 11.8 per cent in February and has climbed every month since – although industry scuttlebutt suggests there may be a pause coming as the EV sales frenzy takes a breather.

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Hybrids – which have been on sale in Australia since 2001 – grew 35 per cent to 20,741 but were left well behind.

Diesel cars, SUVs and utes slid 18 per cent to 31,789, tipping diesel below EVs for the first time. (Heavy trucks, which are almost exclusively diesel, are counted separately.)

Petrol is still the most popular way to power a new vehicle – but only just. Sales of petrol-only vehicles (excluding hybrids) dropped 29 per cent to 34,717, leaving it barely 2100 sales clear of pure battery electric vehicles.

Plug-in hybrids added another 16,068 sales, up 158 per cent.

More than one in three vehicles sold in June could be recharged externally.

The milestones came in a record market.

In total Aussies bought 140,058 new vehicles – comfortably clear of the 134,171 set in June 2017 as the biggest month on record.

Halfway through 2026 the market sits at 631,581, up 1.2 per cent over the same period last year.

Tesla’s traditional end-of-quarter surge made the Model Y the best-selling vehicle outright for the second month running.

Its 8072 sales in June cleared the Ford Ranger (5999) and Toyota HiLux (5175) with room to spare.

BYD breathing on Toyota

Toyota remains Australia’s number one brand, but the buffer that’s existed for decade all but disappeared in June.

Toyota has held the top sales spot every year since 2003 and since 2019 has more than doubled the sales of the second-placed brand.

But Toyota sold 19,124 vehicles in June, down 5.4 per cent.

BYD surged 131 per cent to 18,881 – within 243 sales of the market leader, less than four years after its first cars arrived in Australia in 2022.

While BYD sold 10,174 EVs in June, Toyota managed just 192.

BYD is entrenched as the number two brand for 2026 – surging past Mazda, Kia and Ford – with 52,335 sales, up 124 per cent.

Toyota still comfortably leads the yearly sales tally on 95,141, albeit down 21 per cent, with the slide cushioned by the Camry (up 49 per cent) and a new-generation RAV4 that jumped 70 per cent in June as fresh stock landed.

Made in China dominating Down Under

Roughly two in every five vehicles sold in June were built in China – a total of 55,516.

Four Chinese brands made the June top 10, and BYD placed three models among the 10 best-selling vehicles.

Top 10 automotive brands, June 2026

1. Toyota – 19,124
2. BYD – 18,881
3. Ford – 9181
4. Tesla – 8670
5. Kia – 8005
6. Hyundai – 7480
7. Mazda – 7278
8. GWM – 6104
9. MG – 5001
10. Chery – 4505

Top 10 vehicles, June 2026

1. Tesla Model Y – 8072
2. Ford Ranger – 5999
3. Toyota HiLux – 5175
4. BYD Sealion 7 – 4730
5. Toyota RAV4 – 4115
6. BYD Shark 6 – 3398
7. Isuzu Ute D-Max – 2740
8. Hyundai Kona – 2505
9. BYD Atto 2 – 2482
10. GWM Haval Jolion – 2446

Source: FCAI and EV Council

• Source: https://evcentral.com.au/evs-outsell-diesel-and-hybrids-for-the-first-time-as-new-car-market-smashes-all-time-record-tesla-byd-booming/