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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 pe1rxq on Tuesday August 26, @11:34PM (1 child)

    by pe1rxq (844) on Tuesday August 26, @11:34PM (#1415069) Homepage

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by fliptop on Wednesday August 27, @12:15AM

    by fliptop (1666) on Wednesday August 27, @12:15AM (#1415072) Journal

    My first EV is five years old now

    How many miles on it?

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