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Canada Freezes $43M in Suspicious Tesla Rebates. Tesla’s Claim of 1.5 Sales Per Minute Prompts Government to “Fully Examine Each Claim Individually.” (fuelarc.com)

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Looks like Tesla’s reliance on government subsidies has finally hit a wall in Canada.

After Tesla requested reimbursement for an unprecedented 8,669 Canadian EV rebates in just three days, the Canadian government froze Tesla’s rebate payments and paused all future eligibility for federal rebates while tariffs are in place.

Read the full details and the fallout here.

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[-] Catoblepas 55 points 3 days ago

Ever since this broke I’ve been so curious to see which are dealers with bad, rushed paperwork before a deadline that they let pile up before mass-submitting, and how many are outright fraud. Neither would surprise me at this point.

[-] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 55 points 3 days ago

One store in ontario had 1200 in one day and a store in quebec 4000 during a week-end so i vote for fraud

It would not surprise either if a lot of the swastikar vandalism was assurance fraud too

[-] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 days ago

Probably all of them are fraud. A friend bought a Tesla last year and they said Tesla DOESN’T do the paperwork for the EV rebate. The client must go after it and pocket the money. All other dealers do the job for you.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 17 points 3 days ago

So maybe they found a way to identify customers that didn't, and submitted the paperwork in order to get the rebate for themselves?

[-] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago

I suppose they sent the requests so they could sell the cars cheaper than the competitors when the rebate is cancelled.

[-] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 11 points 3 days ago

For my money, that's the most probable reasoning for why Tesla tried this.

Falls under the "cool motive, still fraud" umbrella, but it makes the most sense.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, it's definitely some kind of fraud, although they might have found a loophole that wasn't in the spirit of the law but still legal.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

Well now they are not getting the money. So their loophole did not work so well.

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