And yes, TESLA is involved. In Canada. Possibly okay, possibly not.
Suspicious is a good way to phrase it.
The MSM item reports:
- Disused parking lots in Canada are filled with rows of brand new Tesla EVs.
- The cars appeared after 8,600 were registered in four locations one weekend.
- The unusual spike occurred just before Canada put a hold on iZEV subsidies.
Tesla was accused by the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association (CADA) of cheating legitimate car dealers and buyers in Canada out of iZEV subsidies earlier this month. Critics have now grown even more suspicious after footage emerged of hundreds of new Tesla EVs left in disused parking lots.
Canadian media discovered huge fleets of brand new Model 3s and Model Ys languishing in the lot of an old strip mall in Toronto, conveniently located across the street from a Tesla dealership. Hundreds of miles away in Laval, Quebec, reporters founds scores more Teslas jammed into parking bays in another lot.
A staggering 8,600 cars were registered in just three days at four Tesla retail outlets in Canada, which breaks down as one car every minute, 24 hours a day for three straight days, even when the stores were closed. That kind of activity is highly unusual, but what really raised eyebrows was the timing of the sales flurry.
The sales came during a period when demand for Teslas in Canada had tanked, in part due to CEO Elon Musk’s association with President Trump, who has threatened to impose significant import tariffs and repeatedly suggested that Canada could become the USA’s 51st state. But the sales also occurred right before the country paused its iZEV electric vehicle subsidy program, leading some to suggests Tesla had gamed the system.
Since Canada is a soverign nation not wanting to be any part of the U.S., DOGE cannot get to the heart of this situation, check out databases and such.
That's probably good for the integrity of the involved databases. Contracts should exist for every legitimate TESLA sale in the Canadian nation. As well as the history of the specific VIN identified items, tariff status, etc.
Fraud, waste and abuse is the DOGE buzzword set, and now this. We live in interesting times. 43 million bucks on the table, so if fraud is there it is big time fraud, not petty, and what do we make of how Elon's cash cow behaved? This story could grow legs. Hopefully so.
FURTHER: Perhaps related; here and here. Again, lawful boycott and protest is okay. Vandalism is a crime. Arguably a hate crime, if circumstances fit.
People should not vandalize property.
Boycott, if sustained and widespread, is more effective a statement, since it is done by people willing to disclose their identity. They are not night time petty crooks not wanting their identity discovered.
Political boycott was fine in the past when the NAACP did it, and now when anti-DOGE protest reaches toward Elon's cash cow, it is political, not otherwise.
Trump fronts Elon, so the ultimate responsibility here is at the White House.