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cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/nottheonion@lemmy.world/t/1889794

Between January 10 and January 12, after being warned that an EV rebate program was running out of funds, Tesla dealerships in Canada managed to claim 8,669 individual iZEV EV rebates, or about $43 million CAD in incentives. That’s a staggering number of sales to log in a single weekend, about 1.5 sales per minute. Let's dig into the numbers.

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[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Fraud? Question the executives - and if suspicions are confirmed and this was ordered by Elon, issue a warrant.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Remember, it's an Elon Musk gig. He easily confuses billions and millions on his DOGE website.

My guess is, Tesla in fact sold 8.669 vehicles this weekend - i.e. eight new cars and 0.669 car's worth of spare parts.

It's so easy to mistakenly type a comma when you meant a period...

[–] TxTechnician@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So.... Fraud. But how, and who all does it benefit. Surely the sales tax far exceeds the rebates. So Canada is probably fine.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They could have “bought” all those cars themselves and now have them on the books as pre-owned.

That would probably reduce the value of the car more than the rebate but I imagine that Tesla would have no issue with selling them as new even though they are technically second hand.

They’d then be able to carry on selling them at rebate values going forward giving them an advantage over other manufacturers.

[–] datendefekt@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I always thought it was normal that dealers buy their own cars to buff the sales figures, especially towards the end of the quarter.

When I'm looking for a car or motorcycle I always check for young, preowned vehicles - they're pretty much new and much cheaper.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It is quite normal but I’m sure that they wouldn’t normally do it to that extent.