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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, 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.