• Telorand@reddthat.com
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    22 days ago

    That’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.

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      22 days ago

      Yeah I was really confused by the story, surely they actually have to provide some kind of evidence. Surely the Canadian government didn’t just run it based on honesty. 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.

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        22 days ago

        Right, you’d think they would provide vin numbers, which the government would then check against vehicle registrations with whatever DMV equivalent.

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        I’m open to being wrong, but this certainly doesn’t pass a smell test. We’ll see what happens.