Timothy Cain

Fun times on a huge range of topic live at lunch earlier today: https://t.co/yTULX2Dvhf Hyundai Pony? Check. Chicken tax? Check. Mitsubishi Triton? Check.

Canada's EV story isn't really a national story at all. It's primarily a Quebec story. https://t.co/y6JPThhc8Q

Just a decade ago, Canadians acquired over 100,000 subcompact cars in 2014. This year, it's unlikely to reach 7,000. In 2025, the remaining subcompact, the Nissan Versa, will start at $23,406 (including freight/PDI) as the most affordable car on the market.

Not enough attention has been paid to Nissan Canada's '25 Kicks strategy and nomenclature. https://t.co/RPbfEn3yl3

According to Statistics Canada, this is the auto sales picture from the first-half of 2024. (Data for NL, NS, and Alberta "currently not available due to contractual limitations of the existing data sharing agreement, however, they are included in the Canada total.") https://t.co/HTBKeC3rWj

56% of federal gov't. EV rebates handed out in Canada in the first 8 months of 2024 were in Quebec, which accounts for 25% of the new vehicle market. 86% of the Chevrolet Equinox EVs sold between January-August were delivered in Quebec; 80% of the Blazer EVs.

As of Aug. 21, the five Audi dealers in British Columbia's lower mainland (north Vancouver, downtown Vancouver, Langley, Richmond, Burnaby) show a total of 481 Q4 e-trons in stock. Through the first-half of 2024, across the country, Audi averaged 317 Q4 e-tron sales per month.

In 2023, Canada's federal government spent $292,868,750 to help people buy Teslas via the Incentives for Zero-Emission Vehicles Program. For BEVs overall, federal rebates totalled $635,566,961. PHEVs added another $178,750,328.

According to StatsCan data, EV market share (the 100% pure BEV kind of EV) outside B.C. and Quebec in 2023's first three-quarters was 4.2%. Up from... 4.1% in CY2022.

In 2023, for a second consecutive year, the Toyota Corolla was Canada's best-selling car. The 1.6%, 457-unit margin amounts to roughly 1.5 more Corollas sold than Honda Civics per sales day. The Civic was Canada's best-selling car each year from 1998-2021.

After claiming the No.1 car spot in Canada for the first time in calendar year 2022, the Toyota Corolla entered December 262 sales ahead of the Honda Civic in 2023, which had held the top spot for 24 years prior.

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Down to the wire, Honda Canada sold 23,453 Civics through the 1st 10 months of 2023. The Corolla, which unseated the Civic as Canada's best-selling car last year after a 24-year streak, is only nine units behind.

Which country is currently producing the best automotive design? (Twitter only allows four options: Japan, China, and Sweden were already eliminated. And don’t bother getting cute - a Kia is Korean whether it was drawn in a SoCal design studio or in Korea.)

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