If we assume that the dealers did a 24 hour shift it means:
If we assume normal 8 hours per day:
Without reading through the article: No, I'm pretty sure they didn't sell that many cars. --
Per the article it was a combines sum from 4 dealerships. Multiply the times by 4 for the average per location.
A dealership selling a car every 40 seconds is still physically impossible.
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it was a graveyard math
it was a graveyard ~~math~~ graph
It cosined in a flash
I was gonna do the math but I knew my fediverse nerds would math the math first.
Now the Canadian government wants to know exactly how the electric carmaker managed to move two cars a minute off its lots — a rate that assumes those four dealers had stayed open 24 hours from Jan. 10 to Jan. 12.
the article's author did the math too!
I don’t come here to read articles. Most of them are behind paywalls anyway
the real articles were in the comments all along
They technically probably did. They sold them to themselves. The plan was to sell them, get the credits, then sell them as used zero mile vehicles at a discount.
It’s shady as hell and they should be fined.
Nah of course not it’s obvious fraud. Question is what happens now ?
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