Canada has frozen all rebate payments for Tesla and banned the electric-vehicle maker from future EV rebate programs, Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Tuesday.
Freeland also directed the transport department to revise eligibility requirements for future iZEV programs to ensure that Tesla vehicles are not eligible as long as the “illegitimate and illegal U.S. tariffs are imposed against Canada.”
Tesla filed an extraordinary number of EV rebate claims in the final days of the program in January, with a single Tesla dealership in Quebec City claiming nearly C$20 million in public subsidies by documenting more than 4,000 electric vehicle sales over a single weekend.
Toronto stopped providing financial incentives for Tesla vehicles purchased as taxis or ride shares because of trade tensions with the U.S. earlier this month.
I quickly googled online the price for Teslas in Canada and apparently the they’re sold at C$ 60k - 150k. How many cars does a single dealership sell over a weekend and how much of a rebate are they getting to make those numbers??
That was in the synopsis above.
https://www.canada.ca/en/services/transport/zero-emission-vehicles/zero-emission-vehicles-incentives.html
Gee when I read the article yesterday I didn’t see that