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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @06:17PM (13 children)
Have EVs solved the privacy issue yet? Where basically you are driving a rolling collection platform on wheels and you need proprietary apps that harvest your data to use a charger anywhere away from home?
I'm genuinely curious. I have a really simple petrol car that works fine and has readily available, still manufactured replacement parts 40 years later. When EVs solve the privacy issue, I'll hop on board.
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Tuesday August 26, @06:36PM (3 children)
Nothing is preventing you from disconnecting the LTE antenna.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @06:47PM (1 child)
The LTE antenna? On my phone? When I'm trying to charge somewhere away from home and need to download a shady app to get the charger to work?
(Score: 3, Funny) by epitaxial on Wednesday August 27, @03:04PM
The car you dipshit.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday August 26, @11:20PM
Yet. I'd bet that will change soon, if it hasn't already.
(concept being that more and more there are things that will only work when connected to the 'net)
(Score: 5, Touché) by bussdriver on Tuesday August 26, @06:45PM (1 child)
Did you not read about onstar and how most modern cars sell you out or at least collect data to betray you in the future?
Your car insurance discount at the price of them tracking you will be eventually sold and used in ways you'll never be aware of. Already, those apps use google services for location which is a 3rd party that banks all your data for future mining and only willfully deletes what it has already analyzed into their data. (You could call it a form of compression of your data that turns it into THEIR data; in which AI is the easiest to create and obscure as opposed to previously manually created statistics on your behavior.)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @06:59PM
OnStar? You mean Big Brother Star? That stuff came out 15 years after my vehicle rolled off the assembly line. My vehicle has outlived them all, and will outlast any GM product made in the past five years.
We can do what-about-isms all day.
Did you know your license plates are being scanned by the garbage trucks when they pick up your trash and that information is aggregated by insurance companies along with the condition of your yard and the upkeep of your other vehicles to determine your rate? This is also how the repo man finds vehicles. Or that doorbells are uploading facial recognition data from my morning run? I have very little control over that. I have no choice, really.
That doesn't mean that I'm going to bend over and just install Windows 11 on all my personal devices and let Google AI scan my shit and just be some gamer techbro who gets excited about new colors on the latest iPhone.
I pay my insurance without an app. I auto-pay. I don't have an insurance app.
I literally choose not to run Google Play services on my phone. I choose to run libre software where I can. I've been this way for 15 years.
Not being able to refuel my vehicle on a drive is a non-starter for me.
(Score: 0, Troll) by mcgrew on Tuesday August 26, @07:24PM (6 children)
Nice troll, boy. The "privacy issue" has absolutely NOTHING to do with an auto's drive train.
Of course, since you're AC, maybe you're just ignorant?
BTW, EVs don't need replacement parts any more than a ceiling fan does.
No one born who could always afford anything he wanted can have a clue what "affordability" means.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by mhajicek on Tuesday August 26, @08:31PM (4 children)
Gas stations work without an app.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 4, Informative) by mcgrew on Tuesday August 26, @09:31PM
So do the EV chargers I've used, one at Walmart and one at the Hyundai dealer. IMO requiring an app should be illegal. But all they know is that you stopped to charge there, your car is on camera at a gas station and if you pay at the pump the station and the credit card company both have your data.
No one born who could always afford anything he wanted can have a clue what "affordability" means.
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Tuesday August 26, @09:35PM (2 children)
True, and most have an app that gives you $0.05 or more off a gallon.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @10:16PM (1 child)
"True, and most have an app that gives you $0.05 or more off a gallon."
Almost as good as that $0.10 discount for using cash.
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Wednesday August 27, @12:22AM
FTFY
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26, @09:18PM
> Of course, since you're AC, maybe you're just ignorant?
I'm a paying member of this site. Since the beginning. There is no GDPR in my country and we are in sort of a fascist technostate now. Maybe there is value among the comments of AC's.
Also, stop trying to "tech bro" me on EV's. You got spun up over nothing. I want an EV. But when I go places, I want to be able to charge my EV without an app. I don't want nor do I have a phone that can do those apps.
If an app is mandatory, then I want laws to protect the data that is collected.
I have a reliable vehicle that I can work on. I mostly bike places. It's a compromise.