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.
Probably all of them are fraud. A friend bought a Tesla last year and they said Tesla DOESN’T do the paperwork for the EV rebate. The client must go after it and pocket the money. All other dealers do the job for you.
So maybe they found a way to identify customers that didn’t, and submitted the paperwork in order to get the rebate for themselves?
I suppose they sent the requests so they could sell the cars cheaper than the competitors when the rebate is cancelled.
For my money, that’s the most probable reasoning for why Tesla tried this.
Falls under the “cool motive, still fraud” umbrella, but it makes the most sense.
Yeah, it’s definitely some kind of fraud, although they might have found a loophole that wasn’t in the spirit of the law but still legal.
Well now they are not getting the money. So their loophole did not work so well.