Ottawa freezes Tesla’s $43-million rebate payments, bars it from future rebates because of tariffs
Ottawa freezes Tesla’s $43-million rebate payments, bars it from future rebates because of tariffs
Canada has frozen $43 million in payments to Tesla pending a line-by-line investigation into its last-minute surge in EV rebate claims.
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... frozen $43 million in payments to Tesla pending a line-by-line investigation into its last-minute surge in EV rebate claims on the final weekend of the government program.
That's the critical part. Tesla is being investigated for fraud and for allegedly abusing the EV rebate program, costing taxpayers millions of dollars.
They shouldn't be given a penny because of that. But also, because Canada doesn't support Nazis anyway 🤭
Assuming it was fraudulent of course.
From the info I saw posted a few days after this whole something started with actual info... The same situation could also be explained by Tesla not submitting claims as they come, instead submitting them as a group after there were comments about the funding starting to end, therefore putting a deadline on submissions. Which would also make sense. Large companies paying and submitting claims for things in bulk on longer cycles like quarterly is very common.
I haven't specifically looked up more info recently though, so there may be new stuff that came out that slipped through my feed.
The same situation could also be explained by Tesla not submitting claims as they come, instead submitting them as a group after there were comments about the funding starting to end
Yes, that's possible. That's why there's an ongoing investigation.
Which would also make sense. Large companies paying and submitting claims for things in bulk on longer cycles like quarterly is very common.
These are not large companies, these are car dealerships. They operate and submit those independently from each other. And when they submit the form, they state when the sale was made. That's how the investigation came to be, because they stated a surge of sales.
The simplest explanation is they registered sales that they intended to make later, just to get the rebates while it was still possible, which is fraud.
When you start trying to find excuses and possible explanations, a Nazi salute may as well be a high 5...
Don't try to find a way out for them. Let them do the work.
I think you missed the point. Because of how they submitted these claims ("by the book" or not), they screwed over all other local dealers as a result.
"This left more than 200 independently owned Canadian auto dealers out of pocket approximately $10 million after they fronted rebates to customers and were not able to file for reimbursement. The Star spoke with four dealers who were all out more than $100,000 and were considering layoffs as a result."
And then you read...
"Tesla has been the biggest recipient of Canadian EV rebates, claiming $713 million since 2019."
No more subsidizing this asshole. They want to talk about Canada being subsidized by the States? He's the one being subsidized!
Misleading headline. It should read.
Canada freezes Tesla’s $43-million rebate payments due to fraud investigation, bars it from future rebates over tariffs
Thank fuck Canada has the balls to look into this.
Archive link is available at https://archive.is/fCfth
But I've noticed that it's not resolving universally - e.g. if using cloudflare's DNS then you can't get to archive right now. But you can use something like https://www.croxyproxy.com/ to access the archive link...
CBC article on this: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-freezes-rebates-tesla-1.7493434
Picking the "Archive" tab in this link allows the article to be read.