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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 aafcac on Wednesday August 27, @02:55AM (1 child)

    by aafcac (17646) on Wednesday August 27, @02:55AM (#1415089)

    Not entirely, depending upon the battery chemistry, they can really struggle when it gets cold out. Sure, you don't have to wait for it to start, but you'll often lose a bunch of your charge due to the temperature. Supposedly Sodium based batteries won't have that problem, but they're not in common use yet. They should be great, you'd be able to get sodium from desalination plants rather than having to work out how much you can return to the ocean without killing all the life in the area.

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday August 28, @01:01PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Thursday August 28, @01:01PM (#1415270) Homepage Journal

    Yes, my mileage drops by a mpk (miles per kilowatt hour) when the temperature is below freezing. Not a problem, and it gets well below freezing in the winter here, as well as the socialist Scandinavian countries where everybody drives electrics.

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