Canada
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The Chevrolet Volt won its 17th straight Canadian plug-in electric vehicle sales title in August, which became its 50th overall. Much has changed since its September 2011 arrival in the home of the beaver—which, we note, is not just Oregon State University’s mascot, but Canada’s national animal as well. Back then, the Nissan Leaf offered the only major mass-market competition, as Tesla hadn't become a significant player yet. DON'T MISS: U.S. plug-in electric car sales for Aug: Bolt EV leads Prime, Volt lower Now, almost 30 electric models are available in at least some parts...
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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, July 2017: Golf season
The Volkswagen e-Golf launched in Canada in late June, tallying 39 sales before the month’s end, and followed that with 84 units in its first full month of availability. Aided by the e-Golf, the Toyota Prius Prime and the soon-to-arrive second-generation Nissan Leaf, plug-in electric vehicles...
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Canada electric-car news: EV Discovery Centre, more charging sites, ZEV mandates debated
As Canada celebrates its 150th birthday, the plug-in electric vehicle sector has charged forward, with developments on the national, provincial and even municipal levels. Here’s our take on six of the most salient stories. Federal ZEV committee On May 26, the Canadian government announced its...
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Driving a Chevy Bolt EV electric car across Canada, all the way
To celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, Barb Hetherington and Buddy Boyd embarked on their maiden voyage to prove electric car travel is feasible in a very large country with some very sparsely populated areas. With a 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV as their chariot, and their dog Piper for company, the...
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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, June 2017: Prime time
Toyota made a strong return to the Canadian plug-in electric vehicle market in June, selling 144 Prius Prime plug-in hybrids. The tally is all the more remarkable as the vehicle has so far launched only in Quebec. Why? That province is the home of Canada’s sole zero-emission vehicle mandate...
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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, May 2017: what dominance looks like
As certain as LeBron James reaching the NBA Finals, the Chevy Volt led the Canadian plug-in electric vehicle market in May. Barring a sales collapse in June, it will have led the category for a remarkable two-thirds of the months (48 of 72) in which electric vehicles from major carmakers have been...
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The Volt remains the undisputed king of the Canadian plug-in electric vehicle market. In April, the Chevy Volt enjoyed its 13th consecutive month as Canada's best-selling plug in electric vehicle, and its 46th month overall. While overshadowed by other vehicles in its home U.S. market, the Volt's leadership of the Canadian plug-in segment recalls the Prius' dominance of the early hybrid market. DON'T MISS: U.S. plug-in electric car sales for Apr: Bolt EV back over 1,000 Chevy sold 348 Volts in Canada in April, down slightly from 377 in March. Four-month new vehicle sales of 1,249 are about...
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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, March 2017: Chevy charges ahead
The Chevy Volt likely continued its winning ways atop the Canadian plug-in electric vehicle sales charts in March. Its 377 sales give it a comfortable margin over the Tesla Model S's high mark of 325, set in March 2016 before the Model X became available. The Chevy Bolt's 241 units were nearly...
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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, Feb 2017: Bolt sprints to a speedy start
The Chevy Bolt EV electric car got off to a fast start in its first full month of Canadian sales, selling 86 vehicles in February. Excluding its first week of availability in late January, the Bolt enjoyed the fourth-best debut month of any plug-in electric vehicle in the Canadian market. It...
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2018 Hyundai Accent confirmed for U.S. as well as Canada (update)
In a U.S. where all the new-vehicle buzz seems to be about light trucks—especially crossover utilities and SUVs—is there even a place for a new subcompact sedan? That's the question posed by the launch of the 2018 Hyundai Accent, the latest generation of the Korean maker's smallest...
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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, Jan 2017: Volt on top again
The Chevrolet Volt continued its reign on top of the Canadian electric-vehicle sales charts for the tenth consecutive month in January. The plug-in hybrid Volt's 256 sales obliterated the prior January record of 99 Tesla Model Ses from two years ago this month. Chevy Bolt EV sales began at the end...
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Ontario, BC update electric-car incentives for Canadian buyers
Two Canadian provinces are now offering more generous incentives to electric-car buyers. Ontario is eliminating certain price caps in its electric-car incentive program, while a British Columbia not-for-profit is boosting its "cash-for-clunkers"-style program. Ontario announced its updated...
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Following its launch last month in California's Silicon Valley, the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV is now rolling out in other regions of North America. Just last week, the first Chevrolet Bolt EV to be sold in Canada was delivered to its buyer. It proved to be a somewhat drawn-out process overseen by a dedicated electric-car advocate. DON'T MISS: First 2017 Chevy Bolt EV electric cars sold today, in California (Dec 2016) Joe Winkfein took delivery of the first Canadian Bolt EV on January 27, at Dean Myers Chevrolet Buick GMC Corvette in Toronto, according to Time to Electrify. Winkfein previously...
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Plug-in Electric Car Sales in Canada, Dec 2016: cresting Everest
While still just shy of the 30,000 vehicle milestone, cumulative Canadian plug-in electric vehicle sales likely finished 2016 high enough to scale Mount Everest (elevation in feet: 29,029). While the full 2016 milestone is unlikely to be reached by January 11—birthday of Sir John A...
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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, Nov 2016: Bolts from the blue?
Canada's first three Chevrolet Bolt EVs were registered in October, no doubt for media test-drives and dealership training ahead of the 238-mile electric car's Canadian launch. That event is expected to take place early next year, but with photos of truckloads of Bolt EVs headed for U.S. dealers...
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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, October 2016: Volt's seven-peat
The Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years; the Chevy Volt won the Canadian electric-car sales trophy for the seventh time in seven months. Though Chevy Volt sales in Canada fell from stratospheric to mere tropospheric levels in October, the vehicle remains Canada's...
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Quebec passes Canada's first zero-emission vehicle rule, to start in 2018
Quebec has become the first Canadian province to adopt a requirement for sales of a certain number of zero-emission vehicles, similar to the one in effect in California. Quebec's Assemblée Nationale passed the regulation on October 26 by a unanimous vote of 112 to 0, and to universal praise...
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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, September 2016: new record?
The past week has brought a "hat trick" of good news for Canadian plug-in electric vehicle owners. The Toronto Blue Jays made the major-league baseball playoffs, the Canadian government announced a national carbon price to come by 2018, and a spectacular September almost certainly shattered monthly...
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Ford Canada told a Fusion Hybrid owner to drive at highway speeds more after sludge appeared in her car's oil cap.
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Canada's first Nissan Leaf electric car driver: still committed after five years
Canada's first Nissan Leaf is still going strong after five years.
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Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, August 2016: Volt laurels
The Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid followed July's record-setting 385 Canadian sales with 421 units in August—the first time any plug-in electric vehicle had topped the 400 monthly sales mark in Canada. At 2,098 vehicles sold through August, the second-generation Volt now recovers the Canadian...
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Multi-brand electric-car dealer to open in Canada after Iceland test
EVEN Electric plans to sell electric cars through multi-brand dealerships.
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2016 Nissan Leaf group buy in Montreal signs up 2,800 for low price on electric car
Group purchases of cars and other goods, as a way of driving down the price, are common in other countries—think China—but rare in North America. But over the last two years, they've emerged as a way for electric-car advocates to accomplish several goals at once. Buyers both get better...
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Electric-car pioneers vs mainstream buyers: how they differ, in Canada (exclusive)
A detailed study of 1,900 new-car buyers has let Canadian researchers contrast the early adopters of electric cars with the more mainstream market in fine detail. More than 150 of the respondents surveyed bought a plug-in electric vehicle, offering a sharp contrast in attitudes and adoption...
Matthew Klippenstein