Prepping for my electric vehicle lecture this week. Here's a lookback on 74 years of vehicle purchases in Canada.

Cars and K-way jackets were so hot in the 1980s.
Trucks* took over in the 2000s and never looked back.

(*includes SUVs, minivans--aka swaggerwagons--and pickups)

Here's a closer look at the past 5 years. It's unadjusted data and there's a heckload of seasonality in vehicle purchases, so my cheap adjustment is running a smooth through it...

Signs of recent declines.

We can also look by fuel type using registration data. It's annual data, and it's up to 2019. Kudos to @StatCan_eng for collecting this.

Here we can break out EVs, PHEVs, Hybrids, Gasoline and Diesel.

NOTE: DIFFERENT SCALES!!!
Showing this way to see trends.

If i put it on the same scale you can't really see much except WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO to make a dent in the gas fleet.

Also looks like gas vehicles peaked in sales in 2017...

Another way to see the change in new vehicle registrations. BIG drops in new gasoline vehicles last 2 years. Small gains in EVs.

As @andrew_leach likes to remind me, if I chart enough charts I eventually end up making charts I've already charted.

Here's my Maclean's chart from last year, apparently, updated for this year's data.

We can also plot the trend in new EV registrations as a share of all vehicles registered. Note: I'm included full BEVs, PHEVs (plug-in hybrids) and hybrids in the numerator here...

One problem with the former plot is there really aren't many EVs in the "Trucks" space yet. So comparing to all vehicles, while ultimately important, may not give a sense of how they're displacing *car* purchases.

So here's EV's as share of new *cars*.

I saved the best for last. (This really is the last)

EV shares differ dramatically by province. BC, with high gas prices and many EV subsidies & policies was clearly going to attract more EV buyers in 2019. And they did.

Here's EV share of *cars* by select provinces. 26% in BC.

Adding this last one into the thread as several people asked. Here's EV as share of ALL VEHICLES. Only reason I sometimes look at share of cars is because that's what EVs are eating into right now, but ignores larger untouched truck segment.

BC still at an impressive 11% in 2019