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

A new report has shown that 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. “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. On Dec. 11, AutoTrader.ca published its top search data for 2023, which showed a rise in the popularity of trucks and declining interest in EVs from one year prior. Back in 2022, data showed that 68 percent of those surveyed who did not own an EV indicated an intent to buy one, but that fell to 56 percent in 2023....