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[–] [email protected] 172 points 1 month ago

Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank God they're not just letting that shit slip

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What kind of first-world county would let it slip?

Glances nervously in US

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

We don't merely let it slip by nowadays. We lube up the grifting slide to make it faster.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

US? first-world? What? No! It really isn’t. Like health care is worse than some “third-world” countries…

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hope so. They’ve been trying to undermine the Swedish job market here, and even fucking stalked their employees. Horrible company.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait what? Can we give more details? What do you mean by stalked?

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I miss the days when the employees collectively knew where their bosses lived and how to tie fuel-soaked rags to sticks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Suomessa, tiedämme muutamia asioita Molotovin cocktaileista. ;)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I understood two of those words, and that's all I need. We meet at nightfall.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We call them “TPS reports” buddy. slaps back

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Dang I was close-ish. Fixed

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Here's a video. It's also in Swedish.

😏

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Jail time would be even better.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe keep your shitty politics out of your shitty product next time, and then you won't face political consequences.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 month ago

In this case it looks like they commited fraud, so it's not even just political.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump calling this "Domestic Terrorism" and threatening Tariffs in response in 3.... 2.....

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

“Illegal boycott!” Was one of the stupidest things I’ve seen Trump say and that’s saying a lot

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Doesn't he only own like 13% of the stock in Tesla? His wealth is barely affected by Tesla going bankrupt

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

The jig is up

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Especially considering this was months ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I imagine they probably don't want to release the information that would prove it if they could, and if they did it'd be redacted enough that no one would believe it anyway. It also costs money to fight endless things like this.

Ultimately, if the government comes back and says its legit, then people will believe it. If it's fraud, there should be punishment.

That whole 1.5 billion accounting fraud story last week, I don't think Tesla said anything official about it or done anything at least to specifically disprove it, but the FT has now retracted the story saying they made a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They probably had their families threatened. That's what fascist regimes do.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think I'd ever call behemoth corporations efficient.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So I'm cruising through the rules surrounding Canada's iZEV program and contrary to all of the media coverage I can't find any requirement that the vehicle be "delivered".. It's even described on the official Transport Canada website as a "Point of Sale" program. Delivery at the time of sale doesn't seem to be a requirement.

Further if you look at the process, which also references this as a "Point of Sale or Lease" program, and the e-forms the end purchaser IS involved with this and consents to Transport Canada contacting them about their purchase.

The number of vehicles does seem high but only in the context of individuals however the iZEV program allows for Fleet Sales and some entities could claim up to 50 vehicles. Now all of a sudden what would need to be 8,000 individual sales could theoretically be as low as 160.

After reviewing the process and the forms it seems believable that Tesla slammed a bunch of legitimate sales into the system at the last minute. It's a LOT less believable that Tesla made up all of these sales as the documentation requirements mean they'd certainly be caught the minute anyone checked.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Now freeze the editor's paycheck - no editor worth that much should be misspelling 'suspicious' in a headline.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Canadians taking on the Nazis they should send canned food to tesla next.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

after what US has done tariff wise I'm surprised that they haven't blocked all US companies from it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Put local parasites in prison...

Claw back all the payments

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