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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: 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.