Just landed in Vancouver for a wedding we are attending. Oh my, so many Teslas! Great adoption rate here, it seems. Bravo, BC!
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Holee molee, VANCOUVER!
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I think your brain just gets wired to look for them; even in Calgary I rarely go anywhere without spotting a Tesla. Extrapolating a bit from old data, only 2.35% of vehicles on the road in BC are BEVs of any make, although the vast majority are probably in the GVA.
Plug-in vehicles sales are pretty high in BC overall but particularly in Greater Vancouver. Q1 2022 figures were 17.1% of overall vehicle sales; 21.6% in Vancouver. Most of those were probably Teslas. Alberta was sitting at 3.1% in Q1, but rising quickly from 0.7% in Q1 2020. At the end of 2021 there were almost 60,000 plug-in vehicles registered in the Lower Mainland area. That represents about 75% of the BC total. Most of the rest are on Vancouver Island and in the Thompson Okanagan.
I live there and my estimate is that at least in West and North Vancouver the per capita ownership rate is higher than the San Francisco Bay Area where I used to live, which I used to think was the Tesla capital of the world.
The Vancouver Sun ran a story back in March that indicated that West Van had the highest proportion of EV sales, in BC at 14.5% in 2020/21. North Van was third at 12.4%, just behind Victoria. Those figures are certainly higher now, even with the long wait times for EV orders. I was in West Van a few weeks ago and was pretty amazed. Along Marine Drive you couldn't go more than a few seconds without seeing a Tesla, usually several.
We booked an ICE for this trip, not knowing that Hertz had a veritable tonnage of these. Not sure what other auto rentals had any at the airport, but I will definitely make a concerted effort next time.
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