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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)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kecessa 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That's the number they sent, we don't know the sales dates on those so maybe they were just super bad at submitting the paperwork...

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The rebate is quite large. $5,000 or thereabouts in most cases. The company also fronts that money to the customer, and then claims reimbursement from the government.

Have you ever known any business to delay in collecting $5,000, particularly when it is sitting as a liability on their books until they collect? Much less to do that more than 8,000 times?

[–] Kecessa 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I'll never accuse Tesla of being managed by competent people 🤷

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaair point XD

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

And risk losing the money? No, my friend. Safer to assume it's fraud.

[–] jaemo 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Occams blunt, used-in-the-shower, needs-a-replacement-blade razor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Occam's got hairy legs and razor burn from how often I been borrowing the razor lately

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Safer and more reasonable to assume it is fraud.