November 18,2025
RED FM News Desk
British Columbia’s energy minister says the province will scale back its electric vehicle sales targets, effectively abandoning the plan that required all new vehicles sold by 2035 to be zero-emission.
Adrian Dix says the 100 per cent mandate, along with the interim goal of 90 per cent by 2030, is no longer achievable. The NDP government plans to introduce legislation next year to revise these targets.
He says new goals have not yet been determined because the review of CleanBC — the province’s climate strategy — is still in progress.
Earlier this month, federal officials said Ottawa would release proposed updates to its EV sales mandate this winter. The federal plan had originally required 20 per cent of new vehicles to be zero-emission next year, increasing to 100 per cent by 2035, mirroring B.C.’s target.
However, on Sept. 5, Prime Minister Mark Carney paused the planned 2026 rollout of the federal EV mandate and ordered a review.
Dix says B.C. will wait for Ottawa to finish its process, noting that provincial and federal targets “should be the same.”
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