Tesla has accused the Canadian government of unlawfully freezing more than $43 million in electric vehicle rebate payments and threatened legal action if the payments are not resumed “immediately.”
Like, fuck Tesla and Musk in particular, but they paid out the rebates to the customers as they bought vehicles over the year, and put all the rebate requests in on their behalf just before the deadline. This wasn’t fraud in any concievable manner.
Edit: holee fuk, people are big mad at not blindly condemning one company that does the same thing all the other dealerships do. I look forward to Tesla going tits up, but this is a nothingburger.
If that’s what happened, they should be able to prove that and the money will go to them. But I’ve certainly heard stories, and I look forward to the results of an investigation.
Please explain how that makes sense: customer buys car, Tesla gives them rebate, Tesla doesn’t collect rebate for months and just sits there with no money. Then tesla decides to call in rebates all at once when it’s announced that they run out?
Like, fuck Tesla and Musk in particular, but they paid out the rebates to the customers as they bought vehicles over the year, and put all the rebate requests in on their behalf just before the deadline. This wasn’t fraud in any concievable manner.
Edit: holee fuk, people are big mad at not blindly condemning one company that does the same thing all the other dealerships do. I look forward to Tesla going tits up, but this is a nothingburger.
They’re under investigation because it is believed they boosted sales in their books to get the rebates for cars that were not actually sold…
That sounds like a fraud scheme.
Considering Tesla did not asked for the rebates themselves, but it was something the buyers had to do, I think it’s fraud.
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And that’s fraud. I think it’s exactly what they wanted, to ask for as many as they could so they could sell the cars for less than the competition.
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Could you show where other dealers have done this?
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If that’s what happened, they should be able to prove that and the money will go to them. But I’ve certainly heard stories, and I look forward to the results of an investigation.
Please explain how that makes sense: customer buys car, Tesla gives them rebate, Tesla doesn’t collect rebate for months and just sits there with no money. Then tesla decides to call in rebates all at once when it’s announced that they run out?
HR Block does taxes, rebates people immediately out of their pocket. Submits all refund requests at April 30, gets money back.
Paperwork often gets done in batches. Companies invoice at the end of month but pay their employees weekly or biweekly.
This isn’t nefarious, no matter how much you (and I) hate Tesla.
If they were doing this monthly, that assumes they were selling thousands of cars each month. That seems unlikely.
It was also one location. So did no other location do rebates?