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.

  • neatchee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    610·
    13 hours ago

    Is it possible some of these were liquidations or inventory sell-off or something? As a data person my initial assumption would be a few bulk purchases throwing this calculation out of whack

    I could see some private dealership figuring out a way to buy the vehicles and resell them as a hard-to-get item later

    Edit: down votes for asking a question? Y’all are weird. I’m not even saying it’s not fraud.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
      48·
      15 hours ago

      If by “private dealership” you mean the Tesla dealerships themselves. “Buy” their own cars, pocket the rebate, sell the car later.

      You know.

      Fraud.

        • KayLeadfoot@fedia.ioOP
          1·
          2 hours ago

          So, the data has a “commercial” or “consumer” flag, Canada is apparently quite sensible and thought one step ahead of the shady things auto dealers might try - so we’d be able to see if it was a wholesale sort of deal, I think.

          It wasn’t, all the sales I saw were consumer flagged.