Not surprising but I hope no Canadians buy them
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
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Fuck you Tesla.
At this pace, Tesla could claim a large share of the 24,500 ceiling before the window closes at the end of August.
Fuck no, they actually have to sell the cars and they dropped sales 64% in 2025 and are still dropping, in a market with little competition. No one wants a Tesla.
IIRC Tesla vendors were using provincial carbon credits illegally (they were selling car to themselves and grabbing the credit for daddy Musk or something like that). Sadly I cannot find any articles, it was 2-3 years ago
It looks like it was a case of Tesla being behind on the paperwork and then rushing to file all the sales before the deadline.
This is also the irony with the EU EV market. Most Chinese EVs are from European car companies, but made in China, because it is cheaper.
Not exactly, some are being built in EU. Magna is building Xpeng SUVs in Austria.
Xpeng is clearly a Chinese car company though. I am talking about the BMW iX3, Mini Aceman or Cupra Tavascan. All those are European brands and developed by them, but made in Chinese factories and then shipped to the EU. Pretty sure most people would presume they are made in Germany, UK and Spain or so.
Also, some of those “European” companies have been Chinese owned for a while. Companies like Geely and SAIC are behind Volvo / Polestar, Lotus, LEVC, MG, Maxus, etc.
Okay, but how many Canadians are actually depraved enough to buy Teslas, regardless of where they're made?
Are unsold Teslas clogging abandoned parking lots in Canada like they are in the US?
edit: Apparently, Tesla moved their existing Canadian inventory of US made Model 3s back to the US to make room for Shanghai Gigafactory Model 3s. https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/3727/tesla-clears-out-model-3-inventory-in-canada-ahead-of-chinese-ev-imports
I'm not sure how this will help, since few Teslas are being sold anyway.
Are these the China-Eletric Vehicle quotas or the China-Electric Vehicle quotas?