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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: 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.
What did you expect when you voted for a convicted felon, peace and rainbows?