Are Parts of the World Retreating on Electric Vehicles?

Canada’s Prime Minister “paused an electric-vehicle sales mandate that was set to take effect next year,” reports the Wall Street Journal, which argues a kind of retreat from electric-vehicle ambitions “is spreading around the globe.”

Even the U.K.’s Prime Minister “has allowed for a more flexible timetable to hit the country’s EV targets.” And demand is expected to drop in the U.S., where global consulting firm AlixPartners now predicts EVs will make up 18% of new-vehicle…