Toyota Australia expects huge EV sales boost

The Toyota bZ4X has been a bit of a wallflower in the mid-size electric SUV segment, but its sales are expected to quintuple this year.

Last year, Toyota Australia delivered just 1041 examples – up 6.6 per cent on the year before, but less than a tenth of the BYD Sealion 7’s tally.

“The updated model that we recently introduced has been received very, very well… Based on this positive response, we are planning to deliver 5000 bZ4Xs this year,” Toyota Australia vice president of sales, marketing and franchise operations, John Pappas, told Australian media including CarExpert.

That’s out of a total of over 200,000 vehicles the Japanese brand is forecasting it’ll deliver overall in 2026. It delivered 239,863 vehicles last year.

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Based on last year’s sales figures, this target for the bZ4X would see it become Australia’s fourth-best selling electric vehicle (EV) and the third best-selling electric SUV.

Last year, the Tesla Model Y led the sales charts with 22,239 deliveries, followed by the Sealion 7 (13,410), Tesla Model 3 (6617) and Kia EV5 (4787).

Toyota has already delivered 840 bZ4Xs in the first quarter of this year, putting it well and truly on track to eclipse its 2025 result by mid-year, though it’s still behind the Kia EV5 (1148).

The bZ4X has left its Subaru Solterra twin in the dust. The Subaru is sitting at just 149 sales year-to-date, despite a 246.5 per cent increase in sales.