Toyota Australia expects a huge surge in electric vehicle sales

The Toyota bZ4X has been somewhat of a wallflower in the midsize electric SUV segment, but its sales are expected to increase fivefold this year.

Last year, Toyota Australia delivered just 1041 examples – 6.6 percent more than the previous year, but less than a tenth of the BYD Sealion 7’s total.

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

That’s a total of over 200,000 vehicles that the Japanese brand is expected to deliver in 2026. Last year, 239,863 vehicles were delivered.

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

Last year, the Tesla Model Y topped the sales charts with 22,239 deliveries, followed by the Sealion 7 (13,410), the Tesla Model 3 (6,617) and the Kia EV5 (4,787).

Toyota has already delivered 840 bZ4Xs in the first quarter of this year, putting it on track to beat its 2025 result by mid-year, but still behind the Kia EV5 (1148).

The bZ4X has left its Subaru Solterra twin in the dust. The Subaru has only been sold 149 times this year, despite a sales increase of 246.5 percent.