Canada

Fereshteh Zeineddin, Tesla’s director of sales and service for Canada, says that Tesla’s filings were normal and that Transport Canada, the government office responsible for administering the incentive program, should know better.

Textbook gaslighting.

For real. "Tesla says this is all perfectly normal" might as well mean "Tesla confirms Transport Canada's investigation is justified and overdue" lol. If they game something like this, who knows what else they're abusing?

THEY DONT EVEN TAKE GAS! /s

Electric lighting.

More like:
I'm sorry, we misunderstood that these claims were monitored and expected to get away with it!

Hahaha, you beat me to it.

Even if what Tesla says is true, that’s a pretty sloppy way to run a business.

Correct. This has been the excuse circulated around from day one. However, given the slumping sales of Teslas since last year, it still sounds like they basically had 6 months or more worth of rebates to process which sounds incredibly shady... how many businesses you know leave millions of dollars on the table for months?!

Better start checking insurance records for each of those cars. Each of these cars are required to have insurance the moment they drive off the lot, so let's see when those cars were ACTUALLY sold...

But it's totally Musk's company, and he's super efficient, so his company is OBVIOUSLY sitting on millions of dollars of rebates from months of sales without collecting. That's peak efficiency.

I find it hard to believe that they had THIS much of a backlog. The article says only 1400 Canadian employees - thats a lot of money for a subsidiary that small, and means, on average, there was 7 backlogged cars for each employee.

From what I can tell, the message was that there was a final date to submit claims to be reimbursed, giving dealers the opportunity to stop offering the incentive and shore up any outstanding claims for exactly that reason.

They just didn't expect dealers to be backlogging months worth of these claims for no apparent reason.

They have the dealers do it because paper work is annoying as fuck and they want to make it easier on the consumer to help adoption. The dealer has the incentive to file it and the consumer gets the discount.