Nearly a Million

Canada's EV count is closing in on a milestone — and a federal dashboard is now tracking exactly how the infrastructure is keeping up.

Canada is closing in on a million electric vehicles. The federal government's ZEV Council dashboard — updated 02/02/2026, with data through 09/30/2025 — counts 991,604 zero-emission vehicles on Canadian roads. That's not a projection. It's a census.

991,604 EVs. Canada is one quarter away from a million.

The more instructive figure is the ratio: 27 EVs for every public charger. Public charging infrastructure has not kept pace with adoption. The dashboard — launched by Transport Canada in 08/2024 to deliver quarterly snapshots of ZEV uptake and charger deployment — was built precisely to make this gap visible to policymakers and planners.

The pattern mirrors what's unfolding south of the border. Public chargers cluster in cities; suburban and rural drivers absorb more of the charging burden themselves. A home Level 2 charger isn't a convenience in that context — it's the baseline.