Statistics Canada recently released new motor vehicle registration data for the fourth quarter of 2021 in the Daily.
There were 1,646,609 new motor vehicles registered in 2021, increasing 6.5% from 2020. New registrations of multipurpose vehicles, such as sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and crossovers, increased 16.8% in 2021 from 2020, comprising over half (55.6%) of all new registrations. New registrations of passenger cars also increased (+1.2% in 2021), while those of pickup trucks (-6.5%) and vans (-13.9%) declined compared with 2020.
Zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) reached a new milestone in 2021, ending the year accounting for 6.2% of all new vehicle registrations in the fourth quarter. ZEVs comprised 5.2% of all new vehicles registered during 2021, a gain of 3 percentage points since 2018. Within this group, 68.3% of new ZEVs registered in 2021 were battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and 31.7% were plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), both increasing sharply from 2020. Higher numbers of new hybrid electric vehicles (+91.4%), gasoline-powered vehicles (+2.2%) and diesel-powered vehicles (+1.7%) were also registered in 2021.
More detailed data are available as far back as the first quarter of 2017. You can make use of a Quarterly data visualization tool here.