Credit to Blake Shaffer who posted this series on twitter.
Overall new car sales are down slightly in 2018, but anything with a plug is seeing dramatic growth. I'm actually shocked a country like Canada sells close to 2M new cars every year.
Here's what that looks like in percentage terms:
And absolute numbers:
Since EVs today fall into the "car" category and we don't have any trucks, here's the new registration share for just cars, for EV, PHEV, and hybrids:
Less dramatic when trucks are included, of course:
Lastly, 3 of the big 4 provinces all showing growth:
I'm not sure why Alberta is not included, but I suspect incentives are part of it. We'll see what happens in Ontario in 2019 as rebates have changed, but all other markets are experiencing similar growth in 2019, with recent news from BC. We should hit close to 20% of new car sales in 2019-2020 time frame. That's amazing really.