EV rebate leads to bump

Although new motor vehicle sales dropped for February, according to Statistics Canada’s latest report released Thursday, zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) have taken a larger piece of the pie of all sales compared to this time last year. There were just over 124-thousand new motor vehicles sold in Canada in February, down nearly one per cent compared to the same month last year. Sales of new passenger cars fell nearly four per cent, while sales of new trucks saw a smaller decline at half a percentage point. In the same month, 12,626 new ZEVs were sold. That’s an increase of just over…