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Tesla Claimed 8,669 Canadian EV Rebates as the Program Ran Out of Funds… That’s 1.5 Sales Per Minute (fuelarc.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Between January 10 and January 12, after being warned that an EV rebate program was running out of funds, Tesla dealerships in Canada managed to claim 8,669 individual iZEV EV rebates, or about $43 million CAD in incentives. That’s a staggering number of sales to log in a single weekend, about 1.5 sales per minute. Let's dig into the numbers.

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[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 63 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Even if there was a real run on Teslas, the numbers they claim to have sold are impossible. This is some sloppy ass fraud. The only way they could have "sold" that many was as fleets and if they did, I'd bet everything I own that it was money laundering.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 26 points 20 hours ago

Canadian government thought of that. The sales are marked as either personal or commercial in the database. All the sales I saw were personal.