Tesla reported 8,600 sales in three days, triggering $43 million in government EV rebates. A single Toronto Tesla location claimed over 1,200 sales, raising concerns about possible rebate misuse. Transport Canada is investigating potential irregularities in Tesla’s sales amid the suspension of the rebate program. Canadian officials are investigating an unusual spike in Tesla vehicle …
Maybe it’s as suggested in the article. That the rebate is going to be paused, so Tesla is trying to farm it. You know, for fraud.
But this could also have other motivations behind it.
Like Tesla buying Tesla’s in Canada as some sort of “people aren’t boycotting Tesla. Infact, there has been an INCREASE in sales in Canada. Clearly Tesla’s are trying to be cancelled, and clearly Canada wants to be part of the US” kinda fraud?
As in, trying to bolster Tesla stock. And trying to meddle with another country’s politics.
Only the fucking idiot muskrat applied for government funded rebates on all of them?
Cause that’s what this is. Fraud.
This set of fraudulent sales happened in January and before inauguration more importantly, so I doubt this was due to beefing car sales. Most had not called for a boycott at this point, not enough at least to justify this massive scale of car sales.
The sales DID begin immediately the day the canadian government announced the rebate program was running out of money and could only fund a few more weeks. It lasted exactly three days, which were a friday, saturday, and sunday. Most car dealerships in canada are closed on weekends. Tesla registered enough sales at exactly four dealerships that, assuming each was open for 12 hours, they would be selling 100 cars per hour per location. By the time monday rolled around, the government confirmed they had entirely run out of money for their rebate program and closed it early. Car dealerships from around the country that had already paid customers the credit but hadn’t yet submitted the sale to the government for rebate then had to eat that cost themselves because they thought they had a couple weeks left.
Tesla doesn’t have any dealerships not owned by them so it’s not a case of some rogue resaler, and the dates are so damning that i can’t see any other motivation for it.
So like, buy CAN, get rebate, move cars to US, resale?
Oh look - more fraud. You know, from the fraud guy famous for committing fraud all the time.