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While Canadians flocked to purchase gas-powered vehicles over the summer, electric vehicle sales continued to nosedive, according to new data from Statistics Canada:
Electric vehicle sales dropped 35.2 per cent in June compared to last year. Zero-emission vehicles comprised only 7.9 per cent of total new motor vehicles sold that month, with 14,090 entering the market.
Meanwhile, 177,313 new motor vehicles were sold in Canada in June, up 6.2 per cent from June 2024.
"In dollar terms, sales increased 3.1 per cent during the same period. In June 2025, there were more new motor vehicles sold in every province compared with the same period in 2024," reads the Statistics Canada data.
"Sales of new passenger cars increased 19.5 per cent in June 2025, marking the first gain in this subsector since November 2024. In June 2025, sales of new trucks (+4.3 per cent) were also higher than one year earlier."
Despite dwindling sales, the Carney government remains committed to its electric vehicle mandate of having 60 per cent of all vehicles sold be ZEVs by 2030 and 100 per cent by 2035, banning all motor vehicle sales.
Previously:
- Automobile Sales, Including EVs and Hybrids, Surge in 2024
- Mazda: Americans Want Cheap Gas Cars
- The EV Graveyard
- South Korean EV Battery Makers Reporting Big Losses as EV Demand Slows
(Score: 2, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday August 26, @03:28PM (28 children)
Up until now, purchasing an EV has been little more than virtue signaling. The EV generally costs double, triple, and more what a traditional ICE powered car costs. And, with few exceptions, those EVs have been crippled on the highway, with limited range.
If Musk's Super Duper Aluminum batteries work out, then the price of EVs will become competitive with ICE powered vehicles, AND, EVs will acquire the range to compete with gas, diesel, methane/propane, or any other fossil fueled vehicle. In fact, EVs can probably sell for LESS THAN most gas powered vehicles, since aluminum is cheap, and there are few moving parts in an EV, making production of EVs very affordable. Best feature of all? You can apparently go from 0% charge to about 80% or 85% in about 20 minutes, unlike EVs currently on the road.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by ichthus on Tuesday August 26, @04:04PM (1 child)
So, buying a car that's among the quickest and highest performance for the price, and has the most advance technology available in any car is... virtue signaling?
*cough*2010 called. They want their FUD back.
(Score: 5, Funny) by mcgrew on Tuesday August 26, @06:51PM
"Up until now, a horse and buggy owner purchasing a Model-T has been little more than virtue signaling." -- Runaway1956, August 1925
No one born who could always afford anything he wanted can have a clue what "affordability" means.
(Score: 5, Informative) by epitaxial on Tuesday August 26, @04:28PM (5 children)
It's funny how Norway is able to adapt to EVs just fine. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg52543v6rmo [bbc.com]
They seem to have plenty of cold weather and highways.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mcgrew on Tuesday August 26, @06:57PM (4 children)
The EV shines in the winter! No standing there in well below freezing temperatures babysitting it while it fills with explosive carcinogens, just plug it into your house and go inside, and no waiting for a combustion engine to reach operating temperature to get heat, an EV has heat in the winter as fast as it has AC in the summer.
I understand in Norway and the rest of Europe there are plenty of public chargers, unlike our backwards, primitive banana republic (USA). We're so primitive we don't even have universal health care! And people expect us to have Modern cars?!?
No one born who could always afford anything he wanted can have a clue what "affordability" means.
(Score: 2) by aafcac on Wednesday August 27, @02:55AM (1 child)
Not entirely, depending upon the battery chemistry, they can really struggle when it gets cold out. Sure, you don't have to wait for it to start, but you'll often lose a bunch of your charge due to the temperature. Supposedly Sodium based batteries won't have that problem, but they're not in common use yet. They should be great, you'd be able to get sodium from desalination plants rather than having to work out how much you can return to the ocean without killing all the life in the area.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday August 28, @01:01PM
Yes, my mileage drops by a mpk (miles per kilowatt hour) when the temperature is below freezing. Not a problem, and it gets well below freezing in the winter here, as well as the socialist Scandinavian countries where everybody drives electrics.
No one born who could always afford anything he wanted can have a clue what "affordability" means.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by BlueCoffee on Wednesday August 27, @08:31PM (1 child)
EV's are driveable in winter, but they certainly don't "shine". And by winter I don't mean winter in North Carolina which gets two days of snow, I'm talking about Minnesota or worse, Canada.
30% of of the battery is be used up just to heat the cab, defrost the mirrors and rear window, and warm up the battery nest. And the battery always has to be kept warm so the battery is always being used up.
Teslas have those stupid over engineered push-then-pull door handles that easily freeze when the temp is below 0C, and then you have to knuckle punch it to unstick it.
Also, the driver cannot completely turn off the regenerative braking in icy conditions, and sometimes when it kicks in during icy conditions the front wheels lock up and you lose steering control. The traction control/ABS handles it, but it's really unnerving to have front wheels lock up like that when you are slowing down at an intersection with cars in front of you.
I don't think Telsa did any testing in winter driving conditions.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mcgrew on Thursday August 28, @03:44AM
I see you're an auto mechanic. You have my sympathy for the loss of your industry.
by winter I don't mean winter in North Carolina which gets two days of snow
I'm talking about Illinois. Damned cold, far below freezing and plenty of snow and ice. Best winter car I ever drove, and again, since 1968, son.
Teslas have those stupid over engineered push-then-pull door handles...
Nazimobiles? Who cares? I drive a Hyundai.
Also, the driver cannot completely turn off the regenerative braking in icy conditions
...says someone who's never driven one! Braking is braking.
I don't think Telsa did any testing in winter driving conditions.
Why do you think "Tesla" when you hear "EV"? I understand winter driving conditions are as bad in South Korea as Illinois. Musk is a Nazi space alien from South Africa, what would he know about snow?
No one born who could always afford anything he wanted can have a clue what "affordability" means.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday August 26, @06:27PM (4 children)
Can try some numbers. Lets use the numbers from the official toyota website.
A Highlander starting MSRP is $40320 for 25 MPG. A Highlander Hybrid MSRP is $46820 for 35 MPG.
We will make the hilarious assumption that the vastly more complicated hybrid will cost $0 extra to maintain over the life of the car (LOL).
Average gas price is around $3.05 in my state. Varies from day to day, of course. Its still at the high end for the summer vacationers and the upcoming labor day travelers, so realistically its less, but OK we'll pick an intentionally high gas price in honor of inevitable inflation.
(46820 - 40320) = $6500 "hybrid tax". That $6500 will buy 2131 gallons of gas. The non-hybrid will drive 53275 miles on that gas. So I lose money for the first 53K then after 54K or so the hybrid will be cheaper (again, assuming zero dollar cost of hybrid maintenance)
In my state the average driver goes 15K/year so that's 3.5 years before the hybrid will pay for itself. More realistically I drive at most 10K/yr probably much less so it'll be 5+ years.
Another thing to keep in mind is both vehicles have a CVT and CVTs only last 80K, maybe 100K miles before intentionally self-destructing to increase sales. The car breaks even about half way thru the CVT lifespan (optimistically) So either way, we're only talking about "two thousand gallons" or about "six thousand bucks" either saved or not saved before the car meets the crusher, in the grand scheme of things, looking at the environmental damage of manufacturing a car, the hybrid savings is fairly irrelevant. What would be VASTLY more environmentally friendly would be banning CVTs so entire new cars don't have to be manufactured every 100K miles. Cars without CVTs can often go 200K+ and not making an entirely new car saves the environment a lot more than hybrid ever could.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday August 26, @06:37PM (2 children)
Also I assumed 0% interest rates. If you drive few enough miles, I am too lazy to make accurate calculations, but at some point I'd burn few enough gallons of gas that I could pay for it off the investment income (however small) of the $6500 price difference, if I pay cash for the car (thats what I usually do).
Lets say I invest my $6500 hybrid tax. My back of envelope estimate is I'd get somewhat less than 5000 miles of "free" gas to drive in my non-hybrid every year.
Honestly, I don't know if I drive the 15K supposed average for my state. I recall last summer seeing my "around town commuter car" roll over from 50K and here is is almost September and I'm at 54.?K so I may only go 6K this year in my commuter car. If you think about it, 6K/yr is still over 15 miles/day and I'm not even sure how I drive that much... I work at home, my gym's about 2-ish miles away, grocery store is a mile, church is like 3 miles? Even driving my kids around and doing "kid activities" with my kids I still can't account for my 6K.
Another novelty of living the suburban life is my 6K miles/yr lifestyle combined with Toyota's ONLY all EV car that supposedly goes 250 miles/charge means I'd only charge my car every other week. Which is about as often as I seem to go to the gas station with my gas car. I wish I could buy a nice commuter car with a 50 mile battery as that would be cheap and its all I need, but they wouldn't make enough profit so we can only buy incredibly expensive 250 mile batteries.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by fliptop on Tuesday August 26, @09:11PM (1 child)
Interesting you mentioned "hybrid tax" but didn't talk about the fuel tax (in my state about $0.50/gal). Has your state figured out how to tax EVs for the wear and tear on roads/bridges that have to be built and maintained?
What will the future price be? Even if they can equate a gallon of fuel to x amp-hours of use and charge the same per "gallon", will there be a firmware update for your smart meter that indicates when the EV is charging to calculate it?
Too many uncertainties for me.
Additionally, all EVs I've ever worked on have similar setups for suspension and steering as ICE so the maintenance is still there, and parts for them are expensive. I put front pads and rotors on a Prius last week and it had the same hydraulic caliper setup as every ICE vehicle I've ever worked on.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday August 26, @09:22PM
Interesting theory: If road damage scales with some high polynomial exponent of vehicle weight, they can rely on electric taxes and property taxes. If you have enough property to have enough solr panels to run a large OTR truck 8+ hours per day for hundreds of miles, you are paying enough property tax to make up for the lack of gas tax LOL.
But no I was going for a first approximation where the environmental damage of building a car that uses a transmission design that self destructs in 100K miles is really bad if it'll take 50K miles just to break even on the more complicated powertrain.
I imagine to encourage repeated sales, EVs have to have self driving using hundreds of sensors designed to break/wear out at high expense after a couple years. The idea of a 50 year old golf cart is fine if you're a golf course but bad news if you're a car mfgr. They need to find a way to make the vehicle self destruct in a couple years to stay in business and that competes directly with the "Savings" from alternative drivetrains.
(Score: 2) by aafcac on Wednesday August 27, @02:59AM
Around here gas costs roughly $5 a gallon, so probably a lot quicker here, plus you use practically no gas with a hybrid if you're stuck in traffic or you have the option to plug it in. Gas here is expensive, but electricity is usually some of the cheapest in the country due to the dams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @06:30PM (11 children)
uh huh. except we all know why canada's not buying evs right now.
(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Tuesday August 26, @06:39PM (10 children)
Slow economic collapse due to population-replacement-level immigration? Life is pretty rough up there right now. A population under siege by its own government.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @06:46PM (4 children)
that's just desperate. why not blame dei while you're at it?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ichthus on Tuesday August 26, @06:56PM (3 children)
*knock, knock* Hello. He IS blaming DEI, and he's not wrong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @06:59PM (2 children)
(Score: 2, Insightful) by ichthus on Tuesday August 26, @09:08PM (1 child)
No. DEI is responsible for exactly what the OP's comment said: "Slow economic collapse due to population-replacement-level immigration"
Reading comprehension, lad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @09:19PM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mcgrew on Tuesday August 26, @07:03PM (2 children)
I'd say Canada is under siege by MY government, not their own, like every other country. American business people and consumers aren't the only ones hurting from King Donnie's illegal import taxes.
No one born who could always afford anything he wanted can have a clue what "affordability" means.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Tork on Tuesday August 26, @07:50PM (1 child)
This is not 'troll'. Canada is boycotting the USA right now and, likely, hunkering down for the next 3 years. The CEO of one of those EV manufacturers not selling well up north said that Canada is 'not a real country' and sparked a petition to revoke his citizenship there. Mcgrew's comment is legit.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by mcgrew on Tuesday August 26, @09:25PM
My point exactly. It all started with a convicted criminal president who wants to steal Canada like Hitler stole Poland.
No one born who could always afford anything he wanted can have a clue what "affordability" means.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by FuzzyTheBear on Tuesday August 26, @11:42PM (1 child)
I suggest you com4e visit us and stay for a while. You sound like an uninformed MAGA moron.
(Score: 2) by aafcac on Wednesday August 27, @03:01AM
This kind of reminds me of that Family Guy cutaway of Canadian bullies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSGoDP80Mnc [youtube.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by mcgrew on Tuesday August 26, @06:47PM
The EV generally costs double, triple, and more what a traditional ICE powered car costs.
Mine was $48k last year, a '24 Ioniq 6. Biggest, roomiest car I ever owned, including the '02 Concorde and the '74 Le Mans. EVs are generally in the ballpark with comparable Goldbergs (your Rube Goldberg insanely complicated transportation machine), but all they make is the insanely fast cars like the Mustang and the new Charger, or luxury cars like the boat I'm driving now. Which is the best car I've driven, let alone owned, since 1968.
Gasoline is four to five times as expensive as electricity and there's almost no maintenance needed. Not even brakes; the disk brakes are only used at under 5mph. No vibration (except the radio) and no gear shifting.
And if the car in front of you doesn't have a tail pipe, you're almost certain to be unable to outrun it. Your Rube Goldberg car is to mine what a buggy was to a Model-T. Don't knock it until you try it.
No one born who could always afford anything he wanted can have a clue what "affordability" means.
(Score: 4, Informative) by turgid on Tuesday August 26, @09:01PM (1 child)
The term "virtue signalling" is an alt-wrong dog-whistle. It's a rhetorical failure.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by ichthus on Tuesday August 26, @09:14PM
The term "dog-whistle" is a leftist figment. It's a rhetorical failure.