Tesla Canada says its shady $43 million incentive grab was a misunderstanding
Tesla Canada says its shady $43 million incentive grab was a misunderstanding
Tesla says there was nothing untoward about its sudden filing of thousands of rebates from a single location in a single day.
Sounds like gaslighting
For real. "Tesla says this is all perfectly normal" might as well mean "Tesla confirms Transport Canada's investigation is justified and overdue" lol. If they game something like this, who knows what else they're abusing?
THEY DONT EVEN TAKE GAS! /s
Electric lighting.
"I'm sorry, we misunderstood that we actually had to sell those cars to claim that money."
More like:
I'm sorry, we misunderstood that these claims were monitored and expected to get away with it!
It was absolutely a misunderstanding, they misunderstood that it wasn't business as usual like in the US.
“We didn’t mean to get caught”
Hahaha, you beat me to it.
Go fuck yourself with a flaming lithium dildo Tesla.
Obligatory fuck musk.
Reading the article, sounds like the government was like "hey this rebate program is about to run out of money" so Tesla is saying they rushed to submit various sales they had already made, but hadn't submitted yet.
I bet regulators would like to take a closer look at the itemized list for funny business.
Even if what Tesla says is true, that's a pretty sloppy way to run a business.
Tangentially, I'm curious why the government would structure a rebate program this way. Technically the rebate is for customers, not the dealer. But the way it works is the dealer gives a lower price to the customer, then collects the rebate to make up for the discount. If it's possible for the money in the rebate program to run out, then doesn't it seem obvious that some percentage of dealers will be left on the hook for rebates they extended on behalf of the government but won't be reimbursed?
Even if what Tesla says is true, that’s a pretty sloppy way to run a business.
Correct. This has been the excuse circulated around from day one. However, given the slumping sales of Teslas since last year, it still sounds like they basically had 6 months or more worth of rebates to process which sounds incredibly shady... how many businesses you know leave millions of dollars on the table for months?!
Better start checking insurance records for each of those cars. Each of these cars are required to have insurance the moment they drive off the lot, so let's see when those cars were ACTUALLY sold...
But it's totally Musk's company, and he's super efficient, so his company is OBVIOUSLY sitting on millions of dollars of rebates from months of sales without collecting. That's peak efficiency.
I find it hard to believe that they had THIS much of a backlog. The article says only 1400 Canadian employees - thats a lot of money for a subsidiary that small, and means, on average, there was 7 backlogged cars for each employee.
From what I can tell, the message was that there was a final date to submit claims to be reimbursed, giving dealers the opportunity to stop offering the incentive and shore up any outstanding claims for exactly that reason.
They just didn't expect dealers to be backlogging months worth of these claims for no apparent reason.
They have the dealers do it because paper work is annoying as fuck and they want to make it easier on the consumer to help adoption. The dealer has the incentive to file it and the consumer gets the discount.
Just a prank bro.
We misunderstood, we thought that we owned you and could do whatever we wanted
We didn't do it We may have played a part we may have a misunderstanding it's Bidens fault we did it
lol