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Tesla has increased prices across its entire electric vehicle lineup in Canada amid increase tariffs due to President Trump’s trade war.

The American automaker was already struggling to sell cars in Canada this year, but with these prices, we should expect a total demand collapse.

The last few months have been rough for Tesla in Canada.

Many Canadians have been boycotting American products due to Trump starting a trade war with the country and calls for the US to annex Canada.

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Tesla has been a specific target of US boycotts due to its CEO, Elon Musk, who helped Trump get elected by contributing more than $250 million to his campaign.

Canadians also had direct reasons to be upset with Tesla and Musk. For example, Tesla appears to have taken advantage of the pause of the federal Canadian EV incentive, and Musk said that “Canada is not a real country.”

For all of those reasons, Canadian EV buyers had already turned sour on Tesla for a few months, reducing sales. We see Tesla still having significant inventory in lots across the country.

Now, Tesla has increased prices on its entire EV lineup in Canada, seemingly due to increased Canadian tariffs on US products in response to the US implementing higher tariffs on Canadian goods entering the country.

The prices have increased by as much as 22%, making Tesla’s products unaffordable for the vast majority of Canadians.

Here’s the complete list of Tesla’s price changes in Canada today:

  • Model 3 Long Range AWD
    • Old Price: $68,990
    • New Price: $79,990
    • Price Increase: $11,000 (16%)
  • Model 3 Performance
    • Old Price: $79,990
    • New Price: $89,990
    • Price Increase: $10,000 (13%)
  • Model Y Long Range AWD
    • Old Price: $69,990
    • New Price: $84,990
    • Price Increase: $15,000 (21%)
  • Model S Long Range AWD
    • Old Price: $114,990
    • New Price: $133,990
    • Price Increase: $19,000 (17%)
  • Model S Plaid
    • Old Price: $136,990
    • New Price: $154,990
    • Price Increase: $18,000 (13%)
  • Model X Long Range AWD
    • Old Price: $121,990
    • New Price: $140,990
    • Price Increase: $19,000 (16%)
  • Model X Plaid
    • Old Price: $142,990
    • New Price: $161,990
    • Price Increase: $19,000 (13%)
  • Cybertruck Dual Motor AWD
    • Old Price: $114,990
    • New Price: $139,990
    • Price Increase: $25,000 (22%)
  • Cybertruck Tri-Motor Cyberbeast
    • Old Price: $137,990
    • New Price: $167,990
    • Price Increase: $30,000 (22%)

Even if Tesla vehicles were eligible for EV incentives in Canada, the prices are now above most pricing restrictions to access the EV incentives.

The price increases only apply to new orders and new vehicles entering the country, which points to the tariffs being the reason for the increase, as inventory vehicles remain at the same prices.

Electrek’s Take

I believe that Tesla’s demand in Canada has been extremely low over the last few months, due to both the pause of the federal EV incentive program and the brand damage caused by Elon Musk.

However, I would now expect a total demand collapse for Tesla in Canada with those prices.

Who is going to pay $80,000 CAD for a Model 3? That’s $57,600 USD or $10,000 more than what it sells for in the US before incentives.

The only good news here is that it might finally help used Tesla prices a bit in Canada. They have been declining for months as owners are rushing to distance themselves from the brand.

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Day 1 of the Electrek Formula Sun Grand Prix 2025 [Gallery]

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Today was the official start of racing at the Electrek Formula Sun Grand Prix 2025! There was a tremendous energy (and heat) on the ground at NCM Motorsports Park as nearly a dozen teams took to the track. Currently, as of writing, Stanford is ranked #1 in the SOV (Single-Occupant Vehicle) class with 68 registered laps. However, the fastest lap so far belongs to UC Berkeley, which clocked a 4:45 on the 3.15-mile track. That’s an average speed of just under 40 mph on nothing but solar energy. Not bad!

In the MOV (Multi-Occupant Vehicle) class, Polytechnique Montréal is narrowly ahead of Appalachian State by just 4 laps. At last year’s formula sun race, Polytechnique Montréal took first place overall in this class, and the team hopes to repeat that success. It’s still too early for prediction though, and anything can happen between now and the final day of racing on Saturday.

Congrats to the teams that made it on track today. We look forward to seeing even more out there tomorrow. In the meantime, here are some shots from today via the event’s wonderful photographer Cora Kennedy.

Stay tuned for more!

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Tesla sold 5,000 Cybertrucks Q2, Optimus is in chaos, plus: the Infinity Train!

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Tesla sold 5,000 Cybertrucks Q2, Optimus is in chaos, plus: the Infinity Train!

The numbers are in and they are all bad for Tesla fans – the company sold just 5,000 Cybertruck models in Q4 of 2025, and built some 30% more “other” vehicles than it delivered. It just gets worse and worse, on today’s tension-building episode of Quick Charge!

We’ve also got day 1 coverage of the 2025 Electrek Formula Sun Grand Prix, reports that the Tesla Optimus program is in chaos after its chief engineer jumps ship, and a look ahead at the fresh new Hyundai IONIQ 2 set to bow early next year, thanks to some battery specs from the Kia EV2.

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Tesla launches Oasis Supercharger with solar farm and off-grid batteries

Tesla has launched its new Oasis Supercharger, the long-promised EV charging station of the future, with a solar farm and off-grid batteries.

Early in the deployment of the Supercharger network, Tesla promised to add solar arrays and batteries to the Supercharger stations, and CEO Elon Musk even said that most stations would be able to operate off-grid.

While Tesla did add solar and batteries to a few stations, the vast majority of them don’t have their own power system or have only minimal solar canopies.

Back in 2016, I asked Musk about this, and he said that it would now happen as Tesla had the “pieces now in place” with Supercharger V3, Powerpack V2, and SolarCity:

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All of these pieces have been in place for years, and Tesla has now discontinued the Powerpack in favor of the Megapack. The Supercharger network is also transitioning to V4 stations.

Yet, solar and battery deployment haven’t accelerated much in the decade since Musk made that comment, but it is finally happening.

Last year, Tesla announced a new project called ‘Oasis’, which consists of a new model Supercharger station with a solar farm and battery storage enabling off-grid operations in Lost Hills, California.

Tesla has now unveiled the project and turned on most of the Supercharger stalls:

The project consists of 168 chargers, with half of them currently operational, making it one of the largest Supercharger stations in the world. However, that’s not even the most notable aspect of it.

The station is equipped with 11 MW of ground-mounted solar panels and canopies, spanning 30 acres of land, and 10 Tesla Megapacks with a total energy storage capacity of 39 MWh.

It can be operated off-grid, which is the case right now, according to Tesla.

With off-grid operations, Tesla was about to bring 84 stalls online just in time for the Fourth of July travel weekend. The rest of the stalls and a lounge are going to open later this year.

Electrek’s Take

This is awesome. A bit late, but awesome. This is what charging stations should be like: fully powered by renewable energy.

Unfortunately, it will be much harder to open those stations in the future due to legislation that Trump and the Republican Party have just passed, which removes incentives for solar and energy storage, adds taxes on them, and removes incentives to build batteries – all things that have helped Tesla considerably over the last few years.

The US is likely going to have a few tough years for EV adoption and renewable energy deployment.

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