My company literally works with car dealerships (i.e. they're our clients), and those numbers are suspicious as fuck.

1200 sales of even ICE cars would be extremely odd at a single dealership in a single day. Most get a few hundred in a month.

But Elon is not smart enough to know any of that, and it would not surprise me if they find out he ordered this cockamamie scheme directly.

naaaah, surely around 30 different massive companies all did a fleet order on the same day at the same dealership? there's no way the wanker who constantly manipulates stocks would manipulate sales!

used to

grats on getting out fam

those parasites are scum of the earth

i used to work for BB&T (oh shit that place got merged and calls itself Truist now. Damn)

That's fine, he'll just ask Trump to start a non-trade war to save him /s

My guess is that nobody wants a nazi-mobile, stock prices are crashing through the bedrock, and they need imaginary sales on the books to appear to be less of a radioactive hot potato.

My guess is the dealership owner bought them on paper to secure the rebates and then was going to resell them as new at full price and just pocket the extra.

I think dumping stock is less the fraud, could have been structuring sales to take advantage of tax year stuff. Like they delayed reporting.

Or they regain less from writing them off then giving them away and taking the credit.... Hmmm....

Maybe the ceo of the dealership or elon musk on a few thousand proxy?

However, who bought the Teslas?

Likely nobody. These are probably sold only on paper, so "someone" can cash in on millions in rebates.

I hope the investigation is swift and expands to other Tesla dealers, because this is probably not an isolated scam.