- Tesla sold about 8,600 cars in three days In four separate stores in Canada, or approximately one every two minutes per exhibition hall in January. This is equivalent to around 18% of its annual volume for the market. Now some $ 30 million in consumers have been frozen by Ottawa.
Canada is launching surveys on the question of whether Tesla has acquired affairs illegally by obtaining $ 43 million CAD ($ 30 million) in government grants for its customers, freezing the disbursement of funds until the case is resolved.
In January, four exhibition halls in three major cities managed to sell 8,600 cars in the space of a weekend just after the news that the country would no longer help finance part of the purchase price of a new electric car under its Izev program.
While a peak had to expect Tesla commands to be generally placed online rather than in a physical store, it works nevertheless to be two cars every minute of each hour for three days in a row. In addition, according to Quebec Illustrated engineTesla represented 89% of all complaints made during this period.
“No payment will be made until we are convinced that complaints are valid,” said Minister of Transport Chrystia Freeland in a statement At Toronto star.
Earlier this month, the Canadian Daily reported for the first time the suspicious number of complaints to reimburse electric vehicles in the last days of January of the program. A Quebec dealer documented more than 4,000 vehicle sales over a single weekend.
“I also ordered my department to modify the eligibility criteria for future IZEV programs to ensure that Tesla vehicles are not eligible for incentives as long as illegitimate and illegal American rates are imposed against Canada,” added Freeland based in Ottawa. Three provinces also havecanceledTheir local EV subsidies for Tesla.
Tesla did not respond to aFortuneComment request.
A Canadian spassport holder, Musk posted “Canada is not a real state” before removing it
Even if there were no such cases of potential fraud, Tesla is an easy political target at the moment, because the CEO Elon Musk has been the public face of the Trump administration – not just in the United States, but in Canada too.
A key board of the failed Freeland offer to assume the management of the Liberals of the Center-Gauche des Outpatients that Justin Trudeau tilted the threat of imposing 100% tariffs in Teslas.
Even if Musk’s mother was born in Saskatchewan and her family side is from the country, Musk fully supported Trump’s pricing attacks against the country as well as his openings for Woo Canada to join the Union as a 51st state.
Consequently, an official petition for parliament to examine the stripping musk of its Canadian passport has Stap report. Musk replied On the effort by saying that “Canada is not a real country”, before removing the position.
For decades, there have been warm ties between the two North American, allied neighbors and trading partners, with an open conflict between the two so far away that it was the thing of Southern park parodies.
However, a few weeks following the Trump administration which took power, relations between Canada and the United States fell to a all the low weatherAnd there was little or no domestic perspective against Trump Treatment of friendly governments.
Meanwhile, the tonic version of Donald Trump’s Canada, conservative chief Pierre Hairyvre, saw his support slump In the midst of a wave of new nationalism north of the border.
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