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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) by mcgrew on Tuesday August 26, @07:16PM (10 children)
The trouble is wanton ignorance. The people who manufacture autos don't want you to know how much better they are! They don't want to sell you an EV! They don't want you to know that the piston drive train is an obsolete, over-complicated mess with thousands of moving parts to wear and break and need constant supervision (check your oil and coolant!) and maintenance.
It's a dealer to junkyard gravy train in maintenance costs. The only normal maintenance on an EV is wiper blades and fluid, and tires (or these strange things called "tyres" in Britain). Not even oil changes.
How much maintenance has your ceiling fan needed? Don't expect the manufacturers to tell you how much faster and roomier they are, or how much better the handling is thanks to all the weight on the bottom, or any of the other dozens of advantages over the obsolete Rube Goldberg tech.
No one born who could always afford anything he wanted can have a clue what "affordability" means.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday August 26, @09:25PM (1 child)
Batteries...
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday August 26, @09:44PM
Yes, forgot about the 12v battery. It probably only has four or five years, but at least it's under the hood and not under a fender like the '02 Concorde that took a trained mechanic forty five minutes to change. Dumbest design I've ever seen on anything.
I consider the main battery an unreplacable part, like when the rack and pinion went out on my '85 Chevy in 2006 I paid $500 for in 2003. The labor would probably cost as much as the battery, and I hear they're damned expensive. I'll find out if I don't trade it in before that.
But the battery is basically the gasoline, electricity is so cheap. My car will go twenty miles on the electricity it takes to refine a gallon of gasoline. I don't see a difference on my electric bill.
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, @09:31PM (7 children)
That's total BS. They all have steering, suspension and brakes, it's the same or very similar to what's been around for decades, it takes the most abuse from driving, and it needs repaired. Every vehicle needs regular alignments too, including EVs. Most vehicles need brakes before 80k miles at least once. Suspension and steering too before 120k. If you're keeping your EV until it dies and it gets to 200k you'll probably have repaired/changed parts at least twice and brakes 3 or 4 times. The same as every ICE vehicle out there.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 2) by pe1rxq on Tuesday August 26, @11:34PM (1 child)
My first EV is five years old now. The maintenance so far:
- At two years a replacement filter for the AC
- At two years: cleaning of the breaks. (Break pads themselves are just fine, just cleaning some dust from them)- At two years a replacement filter for the AC
- At four years a replacement filter for the AC
- At four years: cleaning of the breaks. (Break pads themselves are just fine, just cleaning some dust from them)
- At four years: callback for a piece of wiring in the steering column, a part also used in the non-EV versions.
- New set of tires (fun fact: it is really easy to accelerate to fast with an EV)
So after five years maintenance is virtually nothing. My experience might be just a single datapoint, but it is at least one more point than your imaginary bullshit.
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Wednesday August 27, @12:15AM
How many miles on it?
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday August 27, @12:44AM (4 children)
They all have steering, suspension and brakes
I've been driving since 1968 and yes, there is shocks/struts. But I've had exactly one car with any kind of steering problem sans wheel alignment, and I try to stay out of potholes but I've had a few cars aligned.
But the braking is regenerative. Rather than converting kinetic energy to heat by use of friction, it reverses the motors, making generators out of them and converting the kinetic energy back into electricity. The drum brakes are only used at less than five miles an hour so are unlikely to need any maintenance.
Yes, I've had wheel alignments, rarely. Shocks and struts when I've owned a vehicle for longer than the seat stays comfortable. But almost all visits to the mechanic (who was me when I was poor) were for oil changes, points and plugs, water pumps, starters, and all the other zillion things needed to keep a Rube Goldberg machine with its complications and hassles running.
Pistons are a pain in the ass. I say good riddance to them.
No one born who could always afford anything he wanted can have a clue what "affordability" means.
(Score: 2, Informative) by pTamok on Wednesday August 27, @08:44AM (3 children)
Brake maintenance on BEVs can be expensive, because the discs on disc brakes can rust due to lack of use and require replacement - precisely because regenerative braking is so good. This is why Volkswagen used drum brakes on its newer BEVs. Owners of some BEVs with disk brakes are advised to periodically do hard braking from motorway speeds to minimise this problem. With hard-enough braking, the regeneration system can't (or is possibly programmed not to) capture all the kinetic energy, so some has to be dissipated as heat in the brake components.
Note that the mechanical brakes need to be good enough to stop the vehicle within legally mandated limits if the regenerative braking fails.
BEV performance from a standing start is phenomenal. You need to be in a pretty exotic petrol-engined vehicle to be able to beat a run-of-the mill BEV from the lights. Exuberant use of this will reduce your tyre life. Considerably. (Pushbike users know that petrol-engined vehicles are lousy at accelerating from stationary.)
My (electric) fuel costs for a recent 275 mile trip were about USD 6.50
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27, @10:21AM (2 children)
Which brand? How much kWh spent?
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Wednesday August 27, @02:35PM (1 child)
Car: MG MG 5
kWh: Roughly 100% -> 35% and 81% to 37%, which with the battery being roughly 55 kWh is about 60 kWh. Charging on slow chargers costs about 10 US cents per kWh.
Dry roads, warm, but not hot weather. 60 kWh for 275 miles is about 4.6 miles per kWh - uphill out, downhill back, mostly driving at 50 mph.
Wet roads, or sub-freezing temperatures give far worse fuel economy: winter doing the same trip gets me more like 3 miles per kWh.
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Wednesday August 27, @03:26PM
Just checked the car stats: for the past 2,608 miles it has done an average of 3.98 miles per kWh. That's summer driving.