Canada
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A Montreal taxi operator wants to add 2,000 electric taxis to its fleet.
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales in Canada, July 2015: Volt Vaults To Top?
The Chevrolet Volt sold 150 units in Canada in July, by far its best showing this year. Volume was up both from June's 120 sales, and year-over-year from last July's 132 customers. With Tesla sales historically slower in the first month of a quarter, the Volt may have ended the Model S's...
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Canadian Plug-in Electric Vehicle Study: 1 Percent To 30 Percent Is The Challenge
Even two years ago, about a third of Canadian car buyers were open to buying a plug-in electric car--but they need a lot more practical and real-world information about the options than they're getting. And without sustained and coordinated policy support, those potential buyers may dwindle to the...
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Plug-In Electric Cars & Politics In Canada: Taking The Pulse
Factoring in likely June sales volume from Tesla and others, it's likely that about 2,500 plug-in electric vehicles were sold in Canada in the first half of 2015. This implies sales are running about level with the roughly 5,000 plug-ins sold in the country last year. With incentives in British...
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales In Canada, June 2015: Dial 'S' For Summer (UPDATED)
On July 1, Canadians celebrated the country's founding on the three principles of Peace, Order, and Good Government. The same day, electric-car advocates took heart from the announcement of a pro-plug-in policy by one of the front-runners in the country's federal election this fall. But given that...
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High-Volume Chevy Volt Dealer: How To Sell Successfully, Lessons Learned
Plug-in electric vehicle pioneers perennially proclaim that the electric driving experience is as pleasant as the dealership experience isn't. (Tesla stores excepted, of course.) Recently the organizers of the EV2015VE electric vehicle conference in Canada invited Quebec-based Bourgeois Chevrolet...
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Last month, we assumed that Nissan would edge Tesla during April in Canadian plug-in electric vehicle sales. Wow, were we wrong! Fully 167 Tesla Model S electric luxury sedans were registered in Canada that month, outpacing the 127 Leafs Nissan delivered. Not wanting to underestimate Tesla for two months running, we'll cautiously assume the Silicon Valley startup will top Nissan's healthy 112 Leaf sales in May as well. DON'T MISS: U.S. Plug-In Electric Car Sales In May: Leaf, Volt, Others Surge That could be due to reports that the company is moving away from "batched" deliveries, meaning...
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E-Mazing Race III: Electric Cars Compete On Recharging In Multiple Locations
American Pharaoh may have won the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby earlier this month, but the winners of another race remains to be determined. That would be the third running of the E-Mazing Race, a competition across Canada for plug-in electric vehicles. The Derby may be "the fastest two...
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Canadian Electric-Car Dealership Awards Honor Sales Success Stories
With car dealers often viewed as an impediment to successful sales of plug-in electric cars, recognizing dealerships that embrace and promote plug-in cars is crucial to changing hearts and minds. Earlier this week, the winners of Canada's second-annual Electric Vehicle Dealership Awards were...
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Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell: Early Drivers Discuss Experiences Traveling On Hydrogen
There have already been more Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell vehicles leased in the U.S. than any other hydrogen-powered vehicle. Through April, Hyundai has leased 68 of the small SUVs since last June, when the first one was delivered. That slightly exceeds the number of Honda FCX Clarity fuel-cell sedans...
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales in Canada, Apr 2015: Leaf Likely Leads After Tesla March Madness
The Tesla Model S now owns the record for the most electric car sales in Canada in a single month To borrow from the popular song, Canada's plug-in electric vehicle market in March was "all about that S". Based on registration data, which lags by a month, Tesla sold a whopping 250 Model Ses in...
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2016 Chevrolet Spark EV To Be Sold At Retail In Canada
It may not have too many more years to live, but the Chevrolet Spark EV will be sold in some new markets starting with the 2016 model year: three Canadian provinces. While General Motors had offered the Spark EV for fleet purchase in parts of the country, it wasn't available to retail...
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As expected, the Tesla Model S was a “three-peat” plug-in electric vehicle sales champion in Canada back in February, with its 48 sales comfortably exceeding those of the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf at 38 apiece. With the electric flagships at Chevy and Nissan again limited to double digits in March--and Tesla's habit of delivering big to finish the quarter--we expect the electric-car maker in Fremont to finish Q1 by extending its Canadian winning streak to four months. DON'T MISS: U.S. Plug-In Electric Car Sales In Mar: Leaf Surpasses Volt In Total Sales Since 2010 The Model S...
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Public Charging: Not As Important For Electric Cars As People Think?
A new study claims availability of public charging doesn't increase consumer interest in electric cars.
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British Columbia Brings Back Electric-Car Purchase Rebates
Yesterday, the Province of British Columbia announced the return of its Clean Energy Vehicle (CEV) incentive program, effective April 1. The program's return was the culmination of months of behind-the-scenes efforts by electric-vehicle advocates throughout the province. The so-called Phase 2 of...
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Canadian Club: The Small Cars That U.S. Buyers Can’t Have
Canada is bigger than the U.S.; the distances are equally vast; and there’s way more land area per person. And yet Canadians tend to buy smaller cars. Why is this? The simple answer, at least from the south side of the border, is that Canadians are less ostentatious. They typically spend...
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales In Canada, Feb 2015: Tesla May Be On Top, BC Incentives Back
After strong December and January sales, Tesla may "three-peat" atop Canadian rankings for plug-in electric car sales last month. Lower-than-usual Volt and Leaf sales mirrored lower-than-usual temperatures across most of Canada in February, meaning the Tesla Model S stood a good chance of taking...
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Renault To Return To N America With Twizy Low-Speed Electric Car?
Four of Europe's six mass-market carmakers have long sold cars in North America. The exceptions, for a quarter of a century, have been the two French makers: PSA Peugeot Citroën and Renault. Now it appears that Renault may be considering a return to the continent, using its Twizy low-speed...
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The Chevy Volt bolted to an early lead in Canada's 2015 plug-in electric vehicle sales, with 71 sales. That's nearly double the Nissan Leaf's January total of 36. We'll see if the Volt can sustain this lead, as the Leaf outsold it by a margin of 393 to 372 during the last four months of 2014. DON'T MISS: U.S. Plug-In Electric Car Sales In Jan: Winter Slump Sets In This proved to be the fourth consecutive January where the Volt's sales numbers have improved, having risen from 11 in 2012 to 44 the next year, and 66 a year ago. The month's total allowed the Volt to Cruze past 4,000 Canadian...
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Plug-in Electric Cars In Canada: 10,000 Sold, Good News For 2015
This month, as millions of Americans count down to Super Bowl XLIX, a slightly smaller number of Canadians counted down to EV 10,000, celebrating the ten-thousandth plug-in electric vehicle on the country's roads. This milestone probably actually happened in November, but such celebrations need to...
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Plug-In Electric Car Sales For Canada In 2014: Steady Growth
While vehicle registration data won't arrive for another few weeks, we cautiously expect Tesla Model S to win December's Canadian plug-in sales sweepstakes. Both the Chevrolet Volt (at 62 range-extended electric cars sold) and Nissan Leaf (64 battery-electric vehicles) closed the year with modest...
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Buying Electric Cars: Quebec Launches Carrot-And-Stick Program
Quebec raises registration fees for cars with large engines, and keeps electric-car incentives.
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales In Canada, Nov 2014: L-E-A-F Spells Consistency
The Nissan Leaf seems to have won its second consecutive Canadian sales title in November, bringing fuel-free mobility to another 103 drivers. While down slightly from October's 113 units, this is about what one would expect, given that Canadian auto sales tend to tail off at the end of the year...
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Electric-Car Charging Station At Gas Station In Tar-Sands Land
Electric-car charging stations are still remarkably rare at gas stations, though a handful exist in the Pacific Northwest. But earlier this year, the Petro-Canada station in Crossfield, Alberta, installed a charging station. It's free to use, too. Perhaps not too remarkable, except that this is the...
Matthew Klippenstein