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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: 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.