Tesla is offering the first Model Y in Australia and New Zealand

market Aussie It’s relatively small, similar in size to Spain, but it’s just as important. Tesla It has taken the delivery well shortcut Model Y in these offshore regions, but the first deliveries have already been made to Australia and New Zealand. In these countries you drive on the left with the steering wheel on the right, which is always an added complication. The Model 3 will be available there from 2019.

Orders in these countries began to be placed in early June, so they took much less than the usual times today, just over 60 days. Orders were also opened in the two right-hand drive markets of Japan and Singapore at that time. Two models are available, Model Y RWD and Model Y Performance.

Australians can order the Model Y RWD for 72,300 local dollars, up from 49,400 euros, or the Model Y Performance for 96,700 local dollars, over 66,000 euros at the exchange rate. For the same New Zealanders, it’s 76,200 local dollars for the RWD or 108,900 local dollars for the Performance. A long-range version is also produced in Shanghai, but it has not reached these countries.

Delivery times for New Zealand RWD versions ordered from November to December this year, or November 2022 to February 2023 performance, are limited. From February 2023 in Australia we have to wait longer. The ones on the Model 3, so the Chinese factory still has a lot of backlog, at least as a justification.

The United Kingdom, one of the largest right-hand drive markets, also experienced delays with the Model Y. Orders began to be placed in October 2021, and the first units reached their owners in February this year. Note that the Shanghai (China) factory only produces right-hand drive variants.

The Tesla Model Y is the world’s best-selling electric car and one of the key global models to be sold. It is currently produced in the US, Germany and China, although most of the volume comes from China. A third of the Teslas ever made left the factory in China. It has already crossed one million units Two and a half years in the making.