In Canada, the latest quarter marketshare of plugin vehicles was at 13.3%, with 2nd quarter at 10.5% and 1st quarter at 9.2% (note link is a PDF). That’s an average of 11% across 3 quarters but that number is likely slightly higher or lower when calculating the year as a whole because of number of sales made each quarter would be different.

Anyways, 11% marketshare in Canada is much higher than America’s 9%. I wonder if this might explain why it’s so hard to find an EVs in Canada with waiting lists lasting years. As I wonder if car companies were expecting Canada to mirror the US in uptake with EVs and continue to allocate so few EVs.

Volkswagon are reporting 170,000 units delivered in 2022 and Hyundai are reporting 88,000 units in 2022.

Their comments were coming from what they noticed from a Canadian perspective, in which the Ioniq 5 (4,807) outsold the ID4 in 2022 (1,822) by a large amount in 2022. However, so far in 2023 the ID4 (2,391) has been outselling the Ioniq 5 (405).

That said, both vehicles have very long waiting lists lasting years and don’t reflect true demand but just how many are being shipped to Canada.