About 9.6 percent of all new vehicle registrations in the last quarter of 2022 were zero-emission vehicles, according to data released by Statistics Canada on April 24.
That’s about 33,000 new zero-emission registrations compared to about 24,000 in the same quarter of 2021.
Canada is moving to make all new passenger vehicle sales zero-emission by 2035, with a 20 percent requirement starting in 2026, according to draft regulations published by the federal government in December.
Parliamentary Secretary Julie Dabrusin, said when she announced the proposed regulations that penalties would be “phased in” for automakers if they don’t meet the sales mandates. They are already working under emissions mandates, she said, so “it would be the same system that they have already been working under, but now it’s just going to be applied to sales targets.”…