OTTAWA — Extra new electrical automobiles hit the street in Canada final 12 months than ever earlier than however the progress is nowhere close to what is occurring in Europe.

Statistics Canada says greater than 65,000 new battery-only and plug-in hybrid electrical automobiles have been registered within the first 9 months of 2021, in contrast with 38,000 in 2020.

There have been additionally extra new electric-vehicle registrations in simply 9 months final 12 months than in any full 12 months earlier than.

Electrical automobiles nonetheless made up just one in 20 new passenger automotive registrations, effectively shy of the federal government’s goal of 1 in two new registrations by 2030 and progress in Canada is effectively behind what is occurring on the opposite aspect of the Atlantic.

Two years in the past Canada’s electric-vehicle market share was three per cent, on par with France, Germany and the UK however final 12 months they accounted for a couple of in six new registrations within the U.Ok. and France and a couple of in 4 in Germany.

The Canadian Automobile Producers’ Affiliation is lobbying the federal authorities forward of the subsequent federal funds to triple the scale of electric-vehicle rebates supplied to Canadian customers, however scrap a plan to introduce gross sales quotas that will pressure dealerships to promote a minimal variety of electrical automobiles or face fines.