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Re:Tesla Canada says its shady $43M incentive grab was a mis... by s1artibartfast on Thursday April 10, 2025 @11:32PM (#43650264)
The entire outrage stems from the fact that other Canadian automakers were even more incompetent and slower with their backlogs.

Seems like this was standard practice and Tesla was the quickest to get them in.

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Re:Tesla Canada says its shady $43M incentive grab was a mis... by apical_dendrite on Thursday April 10, 2025 @11:42PM (#43650311)
The average auto dealer is a local, family business. They can be pretty big as local businesses go, but they're nowhere near the scale of Tesla.

It makes a lot more sense for a local dealer to be slow, especially if EVs only make up a small percentage of their business.

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Re:Tesla Canada says its shady $43M incentive grab was a mis... by s1artibartfast on Friday April 11, 2025 @02:41AM (#43651112)
Sure. Lots of Canadian dealers rushed to get them in. 72 million in rebates were claimed in the 48 hours after the government announced the program would close, and 40% of that was other dealers.

Tesla isn't the bad guy in this situation, the government is. The government is the one stiffing dealers for the rebate on cars already sold.

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