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Who is actually buying EVs in Canada

Not sales targets or announcements — vehicles registered, which is the moment a car reaches a driveway. Statistics Canada publishes this quarterly by fuel type and province.

Last updated September 8, 2026

Canada · 2026 Q2

10.7%of new registrations were zero-emission

Battery electric

40,585

Plug-in hybrid

18,226

All registrations

547,673

By province, 2026 Q2

Province or territory	ZEV share	Battery electric	Plug-in hybrid	All registrations
British Columbia	18.7%	7,779	3,714	61,544
Quebec	17.8%	17,190	6,511	133,317
Ontario	8.2%	12,176	4,966	208,445
Prince Edward Island	6.4%	57	83	2,173
Manitoba	6.0%	594	383	16,201
New Brunswick	5.3%	285	392	12,742
Nova Scotia	4.8%	434	436	18,026
Yukon	2.7%	11	8	694
Saskatchewan	2.6%	210	206	15,813
Northwest Territories	1.3%	5	2	538
Nunavut	0.0%	0	0	50

Not in this table (2):

Alberta
Newfoundland and Labrador

Statistics Canada publishes no figures for them in this series. The coordinates are valid and the values come back empty, every quarter. That is a gap in the source, not a zero — do not read it as an absence of EVs.

National trend

12.6%

23Q3

12.3%

23Q4

11.7%

24Q1

12.9%

24Q2

15.7%

24Q3

18.3%

24Q4

8.7%

25Q1

8.6%

25Q2

9.7%

25Q3

11.4%

25Q4

10.8%

26Q1

10.7%

26Q2

Zero-emission share of all new registrations in Canada, by quarter.

Methodology

Source: Statistics Canada table 20-10-0025-01, new motor vehicle registrations by fuel type, vehicle type and geography. It replaced table 20-10-0024-01, archived as of the first quarter of 2025.

Registrations count vehicles entering service, which is a different thing from the two import series on this site. Our Chinese EV imports tracker measures customs value and quota permits at the border. A vehicle can be imported in one quarter and registered in another, and most vehicles registered here were never part of that lane at all.

Zero-emission covers battery electric and plug-in hybrid. The totals are published by Statistics Canada rather than summed by us, and the ingest refuses any quarter where the parts do not add up to the published total.

Statistics Canada revises earlier quarters as late returns arrive, so figures can move after first publication. Our worker re-reads the last twelve quarters weekly and updates any that changed. These figures last changed on September 8, 2026.