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It still means they should have sold something crazy like several dozens of full fleets per hour on the short span of a few days. Or imply that just 4 companies bought 2000 vehicles each, in just two days, during a weekend!. Nobody has ever done or does that. They filed the same weekend that the rebates entered pause. It is fraud.
Or as I said in my OP, a backlog they were forced to deal with when they were advised it was about to run out.
Saying it's fraud doesn't make it fraud. The investigation will tell us if it was fraud.
I appreciate your skepticism, but the sales numbers reported by some of the dealerships in question are nothing short of miraculous. I know, because car dealers are my company's clients.
So even if they had a backlog of rebates, the sales numbers would still be normal, and they're not.
This looks and smells strongly of fraud.
The Tesla show rooms / delivery centers aren't dealerships in the traditional sense. It's all Tesla. Tesla could have just dumped paperwork on a less busy area and said file all this shit.
Edit: and I agree, it's fishy and should be investigated, but all the calls that it IS fraud are really premature.
I wondered about that myself but I'm not familiar with how Tesla dealerships operate, especially since it's Canada.