• dohpaz42
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    1631 day ago

    Officials are now reviewing the Tesla sales data to determine if any irregularities occurred during the program’s final days.

    8,600 Teslas 4 Locations in 3 days (one reported 1,200 sales in one day) $43 mil in rebates ($4 mil in one day)

    Let’s be generous and say the cheapest Tesla is $40k before any rebates. That’s $344 mil in sales, with an average of 2,150 Teslas per day.

    I’m pretty sure it’s obvious there are irregularities.

    • sunzu2
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      2421 hours ago

      Ohh wow governments actually can do basic forensic analysis when they don’t like the oligarch…

      hmm, why can’t they do this shit with grocery stores engaged in price gouging?!

        • sunzu2
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          220 hours ago

          Just just highlighting that the regime can do something about these crimes but they give crocodile tears and do nothing.

          Loblaw CEO should the rope for his crimes… but somehow government does not see it like that. hmmm

      • dohpaz42
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        718 hours ago

        Governments are like the people. They tend to react only when it’s them that gets hurt. Until then, it’s thoughts, prayers, and “stop buying coffee”.

  • bizarroland
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    871 day ago

    This is the kind of shit that happens when you think everybody is stupid except you.

  • Yerbouti
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    1312 days ago

    Is this loser buying his own cars to try to fraud the government now? “We sold 68 tesla each hours in this location were there’s literately people protesting in front of the dealership.” Of course you did lol. What a pathetic clown.

    • Em Adespoton
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      92 days ago

      Well, Usk is a Canadian citizen, so is allowed to buy cars in Canada. Even his own.

      • @[email protected]
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        961 day ago

        Buying a shit ton of your own cars to then claim the government rebate for EVs, but still having those cars available for sale is fraud.

      • @GreenKnight23
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        382 days ago

        true as that may be, not filing the appropriate paperwork for 6800 cars is likely going to be a problem.

        example: Capone was taken down for tax evasion.

  • @[email protected]
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    1042 days ago

    This is FALSE! Elon Musk would NOT Abuse the Government to line his OWN pockets! That’s what SINGLE MOTHERS WORKING THREE JOBS would do!

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      -152 days ago

      …really don’t know if you forgot the /s or not. My instinct is to assume you did forget it, but my assumption is also that nazis died in the 40s, and yet here we are with government officials giving the nazi salute on tv. So trusting my instincts hasn’t gone so well recently.

      • Encrypt-Keeper
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        421 day ago

        If you couldn’t suss out the obvious sarcasm, it might be time to go offline for awhile and recalibrate.

      • @[email protected]
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        118 hours ago

        It’s okay! Mac is actually really funny in their sarcasm. They’ve been around for awhile, and this is their schtick. They talk like Trump or MAGAts would for the satire. :)

      • @RonnieB
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        382 days ago

        They didn’t forget it, it’s obvious sarcasm.

        • bizarroland
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          131 day ago

          It’s a level of obvious sarcasm, so obvious that if it weren’t sarcasm, people would rally together to hunt them down like the dogs they are.

            • bizarroland
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              101 day ago

              Cons wouldn’t use the phrase “single mother working three jobs”.

                • sunzu2
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                  113 hours ago

                  Don’t you hate strapping young bucks buying a tbone at the steak house with their welfare checks tho?

  • @SinningStromgald
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    There is no way Tesla offloaded 8600 swasticars in three fucking days. I bet this is hung on some no name middle manager

    • @rottingleaf
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      41 day ago

      I suppose they can offload a lot of them into the ocean or something like that. But still too fast.

      • @SinningStromgald
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        82 days ago

        One dealer sold 1200. No idea how many more sold the rest. Or how many Tesla dealers there are in Canada.

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            8600 from 4 dealerships in 3 days, or 12 dealership-days. So, about 700 per dealership per day on average. The 1200 in one day is likely the max, which is typical for these kind of statements.

  • @lexiw
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    301 day ago

    None of you is asking the real questions: has he done something similar somewhere else?

    Don’t you find it suspicious that sales have fallen massively everywhere but risen in the UK? How do we start an investigation there?

    • @[email protected]
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      521 hours ago

      I saw a chart that said they were up by a factor of like 3. Would be interesting to see if this were true.

  • @[email protected]
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    532 days ago

    All Tesla sales are suspicious unless it’s for sale by owner trying to purge Nazi paraphernalia.

  • @Oaksey
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    41 day ago

    Later in the story it mentions registrations. I wonder if they just registered a heap of them shortly after the government said they were likely going to pause the rebates but before they did. I wonder if all that is now effectively stock they can sell but with the rebate?
    Should be investigated either way.