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Canadian EV Sales Collapse by 35% as Gas Car Purchases Surge

posted by jelizondo on Tuesday August 26, @02:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the moar-power-eh dept.

fliptop writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday August 26, @09:44PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Tuesday August 26, @09:44PM (#1415063) Homepage Journal

    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.

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