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Between January 10 and January 12, after being warned that an EV rebate program was running out of funds, Tesla dealerships in Canada managed to claim 8,669 individual iZEV EV rebates, or about $43 million CAD in incentives. That’s a staggering number of sales to log in a single weekend, about 1.5 sales per minute. Let's dig into the numbers.

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[–] PeteWheeler@lemmy.world 30 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Elon Musk will go down in history as THE EXAMPLE of greed and generational wealth will do to you.

He is the wealthiest man in history, but is still never satisfied. He will never be happy. And you can't convince me he is happy right now. His actions are not the same as a happy man, but one that is insecure. Literally every decision, action, and even conversation reeks of it.

[–] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I think this may be less a money grab and more a 'how dare Canada stand up to me (acting president Muskrat) and levy all these tariffs against us?! Ill show you!".

Honestly though, is this just the musky one getting as close as he can to being president as he legally cant due to being a non-US born citizen? Buying his way in and fooling the worlds best business man to take him on as his '2IC' ?

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 6 points 20 hours ago

Hopefully this will educate future generations to tax the everliving fuck out of the rich. American democracy has gotten worse as the tax rates fell.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 6 points 23 hours ago

Powerful Crassus energy to this one.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 22 hours ago

Do the right thing Canada. Arrest warrants for all involved.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 23 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

So from everything I’ve seen about this situation, it looks a whole fucking lot like a massive amount of malfeasance from Tesla. I genuinely hope the Canadian government throws the book at them and absolutely reams them financially for fraud.

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know. The US might hit them with tariffs if they do that!

[–] CBYX@feddit.org 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's amazing how if you jump to tariffs the you have no real soft power left

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 9 points 22 hours ago

People who don't threaten physical violence often... you know, softies, the part-time tough guys... they don't anticipate how long-lasting the negative reaction from their victims will be.

The annexation talk, the 51st state talk, none of that stuff will be directly linked to whatever counterpunch Canada cooks up, but it'll be hardening the hearts of the Canadian voters to be in favor of ever-more-draconian countermeasures.

I hope those Twitter threats felt great to issue, because we'll all be paying for those for a good long while on every agricultural transaction (among others!) that we make with our closest ally in the coming decades.

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 10 points 20 hours ago

Smells like fraud! Tesla is ran by a grifter. Canada better get their stuff together and arrest or ban Musk from business in Canada or he will have you acting like the US.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

imagine being the richest person in the world and still committing obvious fraud for a quick million.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

That black Cybertruck almost looks good... as a dystopian Sci-fi prop...

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I saw a black one yesterday. It still looks like garbage in person. That photo is just unjustly flattering.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

They don’t come in black. Customers wrap them.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 22 hours ago

There are bits and pieces of the design that aren't incredibly offensive. But all put together, it just looks like a mess of a hulk.

The back end screams of 90's luxor. I was going to say that the hidden door handles are complexity for no advantage, but nearly every component reeks of that. It has one of the largest windshields in existence, yet, you still can't see out of it well.

Unless they're all detailed regularly, they look like they're dirty.

It's like someone looked at a delorian, then threw away everything they saw and tried to make a truck from a 6yo's drawing paper.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Sounds like fraud to me

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn. What's the difference between elon and a petty theif?? At least petty thief's have some morals. Elons moral compass is stuck in magnetic vortex spinning him out of control

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

A petty thief can only steal what you currently have. Elon can take away things that you don't even have yet.

It's a helluva thing killing a man; you take all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

When you make any climate policy other than a carbon tax (right amount is $300/ton = $3/gallon gasoline. Rebated at $4000+ dividend to citizens) you introduce corruption vectors.

What is likely happening here is that vehicles are sold with rebates to people who let it get resold as new, by same dealer, without rebate. Probably not illegal.

[–] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 215 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seize Tesla and Elon Musk owned property to make up the difference for obvious fraud.

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 68 points 2 days ago (1 children)

eminent domain seizure and fucking liquidate them

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This exchange reminds me of Soul Music

"I want a stagecoach with liver on the sides,"

"You mean Livery."

"That too."

RIP Sir Pratchett

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 99 points 2 days ago

Elon now stealing money from Canada taxpayers. US taxpayers not enough.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 75 points 2 days ago

Xelon + fraud? No one is shocked.

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 80 points 2 days ago

100% tarrifs will be a good start

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 57 points 2 days ago

It makes me so happy that I saw protesters today in front of the nearby dealership. Elon a shit.

[–] Auk@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

Up next, Elon makes a sovereign wealth fund disappear.

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

Somethings fucky here......

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