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Obligatory fuck musk.
Reading the article, sounds like the government was like "hey this rebate program is about to run out of money" so Tesla is saying they rushed to submit various sales they had already made, but hadn't submitted yet.
I bet regulators would like to take a closer look at the itemized list for funny business.
Even if what Tesla says is true, that's a pretty sloppy way to run a business.
Tangentially, I'm curious why the government would structure a rebate program this way. Technically the rebate is for customers, not the dealer. But the way it works is the dealer gives a lower price to the customer, then collects the rebate to make up for the discount. If it's possible for the money in the rebate program to run out, then doesn't it seem obvious that some percentage of dealers will be left on the hook for rebates they extended on behalf of the government but won't be reimbursed?
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.