Thank God they're not just letting that shit slip
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2025
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What kind of first-world county would let it slip?
Glances nervously in US
We don't merely let it slip by nowadays. We lube up the grifting slide to make it faster.
US? first-world? What? No! It really isn’t. Like health care is worse than some “third-world” countries…
Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Bankruptcy! Woo!
Hope so. They’ve been trying to undermine the Swedish job market here, and even fucking stalked their employees. Horrible company.
Wait what? Can we give more details? What do you mean by stalked?
Idk about Sweden, but in Germany middle management visited sick employees at their homes to check whether they were really sick.
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/tesla-hausbesuche-krankschreibungen-100.html
Holy fuck. I'm sorry, if I take a sick day I take a sick day - you might see me out shopping for groceries to survive the day, but I am by no means well.
Uhm excuse me. If you can walk and carry groceries, clearly you are well 👏 enough 👏 to work 👏. I’m waiting on those TPS* reports tetris11!
Them probably.
I miss the days when the employees collectively knew where their bosses lived and how to tie fuel-soaked rags to sticks
Suomessa, tiedämme muutamia asioita Molotovin cocktaileista. ;)
I understood two of those words, and that's all I need. We meet at nightfall.
My completely uneducated guess would say that this is the language of a country who know a few things about a Molotov Cocktail!
The closest word in my mental vocabulary which comes close to "Suomessa" is Suomi which is Finnish for Finland
Tiedämme? They tied a dam?
Muutamia has to do with a mutiny!
Asioita, I have no clue.
Then they reference the infamous Flaming Sambucca!
So Finland once staged a mutiny with fiery alcohol and a dam!
Maybe bean (I forget how to tag people in Lemmy posts) can tell me how close I was.
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Jail time would be even better.
Maybe keep your shitty politics out of your shitty product next time, and then you won't face political consequences.
In this case it looks like they commited fraud, so it's not even just political.
That's not even what happened. I work in the auto industry, and they very blatantly abused the rebate program with what are almost certainly fake vouchers.
Some individual dealerships reported thousands of sales in a single day, and that would be a miracle even at the best of times for a well established dealer. There's no way Tesla is declining around the world and still selling miraculous numbers of vehicles.
Yeah I was really confused by the story, surely they actually have to provide some kind of evidence. Surely the Canadian government didn't just run it based on honesty. Wouldn't they have to provide the VIN or something.
But the very least I would have assumed that they had to list the name of the person they sold the car to.
Right, you’d think they would provide vin numbers, which the government would then check against vehicle registrations with whatever DMV equivalent.
The iZEV program began in 2019 I believe, and given the timeline these sort of investigations and hearings take I would bet they did catch it pretty quickly.
Rather than comparing VINs another way to compare would be to go off the monthly or quarterly tax statements from corporations comparing sales to volume of rebates that way, but if they were committing fraud on the rebates that means they would also be committing tax fraud, but I have absolutely no idea how it was actually implemented I'm just spitballing here.
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I wonder if there is the possibility of the shareholders suing Elon because what he's doing is so demonstrably damaging the company. He could totally have done this and not had the big PR problem by just not doing random stuff without running it past anyone. But nooo.
People weren't happy about him essentially buying a governmental position but what they really objected to is all the subsequent things he did.
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Trump calling this "Domestic Terrorism" and threatening Tariffs in response in 3.... 2.....
“Illegal boycott!” Was one of the stupidest things I’ve seen Trump say and that’s saying a lot
Hopefully, this amounts to a fraud investigation and shareholders dump their stocks and cause Musk to fall below the margin call and then he liquidates and Tesla goes to rock bottom.
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The jig is up
Now freeze the editor's paycheck - no editor worth that much should be misspelling 'suspicious' in a headline.
Option 1: Tesla fraudulently filed rebates
Option 2: Tesla filed a backlog of rebates when they realized they had to
Both are possible, but everyone is jumping to conclusion that it's option 1, while option 2 is the easier answer.
Also the government said they're going to let all the other rebates that this pushed out at the last minute get the rebate regardless of if these were legit or not.
Option 2 should be easy to prove, so why didn’t they do that already, like literally the same day they were accused of it? Then their funds wouldn’t have been frozen.
Especially considering this was months ago
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Maybe they shouldn't have kept a backlog then? That certainly sounds like a 'them' problem though, doesn't it?
Doesn't strike me as very efficient either
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Canadians taking on the Nazis they should send canned food to tesla next.
What's going on in Quebec?
The federal government is following the same strategy as some provinces. British Columbia has recently banned Tesla products from its EV charger rebate. Nova Scotia just announced that it has excluded Tesla from its $2,000 rebate at the purchase of a new EV.
Quebec just relaunched its own EV incentive program today. It will come into effect next week, and so far, Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y vehicles are still included in the list of eligible vehicles.
Quebec always marches to a different drummer. Nevertheless, I expect they will be dropping the Tesla vehicles from their list sooner or later. They may just not want to make any more adjustments so close to a launch.
after what US has done tariff wise I'm surprised that they haven't blocked all US companies from it.
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