11/24/2025
Energy Minister Adrian Dix is shifting goal-setting, cash incentives and blame for high electric-vehicle prices to Ottawa. Dix said the 100-per-cent sales goal, and a 90-per-cent target for 2030 were no longer "realistic," and the government saw rebates "as a federal responsibility."
And, where do we go from here? Without subsidies and tax credits to help stimulate market demand, it makes it easier for the EV supply chain to fall by the waist side. The future is bright, but also hazy.
British Columbia has abandoned a rebate program for electric vehicles that it paused six months ago and is scrapping a mandate that every new vehicle sold in the province must be zero-emission by 2035.