Comment on Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates
Telorand@reddthat.com 4 weeks agoThat’s not even what happened. I work in the auto industry, and they very blatantly abused the rebate program with what are almost certainly fake vouchers.
Some individual dealerships reported thousands of sales in a single day, and that would be a miracle even at the best of times for a well established dealer. There’s no way Tesla is declining around the world and still selling miraculous numbers of vehicles.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Yeah I was really confused by the story surely they actually have to provide some kind of evidence they don’t just claim that they sold the cars. Like wouldn’t they have to provide the VIN or something.
But the very least I would have assumed that they had to list the name of the person they sold the car to.
jaybone@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Right, you’d think they would provide vin numbers, which the government would then check against vehicle registrations with whatever DMV equivalent.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The iZEV program began in 2019 I believe, and given the timeline these sort of investigations and hearings take I would bet they did catch it pretty quickly.
Rather than comparing VINs another way to compare would be to go off the monthly or quarterly tax statements from corporations comparing sales to volume of rebates that way, but if they were committing fraud on the rebates that means they would also be committing tax fraud, but I have absolutely no idea how it was actually implemented I’m just spitballing here.
Telorand@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
I’m open to being wrong, but this certainly doesn’t pass a smell test. We’ll see what happens.