The sales numbers provided by the company-owned shops allowed them to claim tens of millions in government rebates. Now those numbers are under scrutiny.
Now the Canadian government wants to know exactly how the electric carmaker managed to move two cars a minute off its lots — a rate that assumes those four dealers had stayed open 24 hours from Jan. 10 to Jan. 12.
If we assume that the dealers did a 24 hour shift it means:
If we assume normal 8 hours per day:
Without reading through the article: No, I’m pretty sure they didn’t sell that many cars. –
Per the article it was a combines sum from 4 dealerships. Multiply the times by 4 for the average per location.
A dealership selling a car every 40 seconds is still physically impossible.
!theydidthemath@lemm.ee
!theydidthemonstermath@lemm.ee
it was a graveyard math
It cosined in a flash
I was gonna do the math but I knew my fediverse nerds would math the math first.
the article’s author did the math too!
I don’t come here to read articles. Most of them are behind paywalls anyway
the real articles were in the comments all along