Suspicious Tesla Sales Surge Triggers Canadian Government Investigation

[sc00ter@lemm.ee]

Buying a shit ton of your own cars to then claim the government rebate for EVs, but still having those cars available for sale is fraud.

[encryptkeeper@lemmy.world]

If you couldn’t suss out the obvious sarcasm, it might be time to go offline for awhile and recalibrate.

[Guest]

None of you is asking the real questions: has he done something similar somewhere else?

Don’t you find it suspicious that sales have fallen massively everywhere but risen in the UK? How do we start an investigation there?

[anomnom@sh.itjust.works]

4 dealerships total were involved, so 1200 was probably the lesser of the 4.

[bizarroland@fedia.io]

It's a level of obvious sarcasm, so obvious that if it weren't sarcasm, people would rally together to hunt them down like the dogs they are.

[dohpaz42@lemmy.world]

Officials are now reviewing the Tesla sales data to determine if any irregularities occurred during the program’s final days.

8,600 Teslas
4 Locations in 3 days (one reported 1,200 sales in one day)
$43 mil in rebates ($4 mil in one day)

Let’s be generous and say the cheapest Tesla is $40k before any rebates. That’s $344 mil in sales, with an average of 2,150 Teslas per day.

I’m pretty sure it’s obvious there are irregularities.

[drdeadcrash@programming.dev]

It's just the kind of shit a con would say just to fuck with people

[bizarroland@fedia.io]

Cons wouldn't use the phrase "single mother working three jobs".

[drdeadcrash@programming.dev]

That's true, they'd say welfare Queen or something

[colesloth@discuss.tchncs.de]

Yall got reading issues. It says one of the dealerships sold 1200 in a single day.

[oaksey@lemmy.world]

Later in the story it mentions registrations. I wonder if they just registered a heap of them shortly after the government said they were likely going to pause the rebates but before they did. I wonder if all that is now effectively stock they can sell but with the rebate?
Should be investigated either way.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

I suppose they can offload a lot of them into the ocean or something like that. But still too fast.

[boonhet@lemm.ee]

If he's under investigation there, he'll probably never visit Canada again.

[greyeyedghost@lemmy.ca]

Yes, keep on reminding people how much better Canada is. And, unlike oil, this kind of better can't be exported by invading.

[greyeyedghost@lemmy.ca]

8600 from 4 dealerships in 3 days, or 12 dealership-days. So, about 700 per dealership per day on average. The 1200 in one day is likely the max, which is typical for these kind of statements.