Interest in Electric Vehicles Declined in Canada in 2023, New Report Shows

Interest in Electric Vehicles Declined in Canada in 2023, New Report Shows
Employees work on assembly line during a construction completion event of SAIC Volkswagen MEB electric vehicle plant in Shanghai, China, on Nov. 8, 2019. Aly Song/Reuters
Matthew Horwood
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Interest in electric vehicles (EVs) in Canada is declining at a time when the country has made billions of dollars of investments in factories to create the products, a new report has found.

“So higher gas prices, people are more interested in EVs, lower gas prices, that interest starts to soften a bit,” AutoTrader editor-in-chief Jodi Lai told Global News in an interview.