Zero-emission autos made up almost one in each 10 autos offered in Canada through the ultimate three months of 2022, in response to the newest knowledge from Statistics Canada. 

Canadians registered 33,400 battery-electric and plug-in hybrid autos within the fourth quarter, the federal company mentioned April 24 

The ultimate quarter of 2022 capped a yr of robust features for electrified autos in Canada. ZEV registrations accounted for 9.6 per cent of the 346,370 whole autos registered, up from a 6.1 per cent share within the ultimate quarter of 2021. 

Canada’s three most populous provinces are additionally the nation’s main ZEV markets, making up 92 per cent of ZEV registrations within the ultimate three months of 2022.

British Columbia and Quebec, which each supply extra provincial buy incentives and have mandates requiring that automakers promote a sure proportion of ZEVs, stay the quickest adopters. Statistics present that  18.6 per cent of autos registered in B.C. from October by December, and 13.9 per cent of these registered in Quebec, have been ZEVs. 

In Ontario, the place the federal government continues to withstand calls to supply a shopper incentive to complement the federal rebate, eight per cent of autos registered within the fourth quarter have been ZEVs. 

Statistics Canada counts each battery-electric and plug-in hybrids as ZEVs. BEVs and PHEVs respectively made up 83 and 17 per cent of ZEV registrations.