So about 700 cars per lot per day, minimum. Nice.
It's so obviously a scam. To even entertain the thought, each of the four lots would have to empty a stock of over 2000 cars in 3 days. Can any lot even hold that many cars?
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I guess it could have been four people ordering 2000 cars each on back order?
Or perhaps one person ordering 8000.
That person's name? Nole Ksum. You've not met him. He goes to a different school.
According to the article that would be 2 cars/min for 72 hours straight (that's three 24-hour shifts in a row) spread over 4 dealerships. It's so ridiculous, absolutely no possible way that happened. Not unless a billionaire came along and simply bought them en masse
Not unless a billionaire came along and simply bought them en masse
Are we suggesting Musk did this to get the rebate before it expires and then was planning to “resell” them in the future?
No we aren't "suggesting" at all.
I hadn’t thought of this until reading the post I replied to, but that’s actually at least something you could attempt to defend somehow, rather than just flat out lying about number of sales which is what I was assuming all along.
It's probably 1 rebate per customer.
No.
The only possible explanation for this not being fraud is that Tesla was sloppy about submitting the rebates for purchases going back months and months and months and they had to scramble to get the legitimate claims in before the program ran out of money.
But I’m pretty much 100% certain that’s not the case because if it were true, Tesla would be loudly saying that’s all it was. Instead it’s silence or poop emojis or whatever that idiot has their communications department doing now.
I mean, did any of those dealers manage those sorts of sales in any month?
I don't know that much about dealerships, but I find it hard to believe that any but the exceedingly most exceptional manage four digit sales in an entire month in general, let alone in three days for a single brand that's been hemorrhaging popularity over the last two years or so.
Tesla does not have dealerships in the sense of dealerships being middleman franchises that have their own owners. Tesla is direct to consumer, meaning Tesla owns its stores.
I'm not saying this to negate what you said, rather to emphasize that the "suspicious" sales were not the act of some rogue local dealership owners, they are the actions of Tesla itself.
Four digit sales for any dealer group in a month is simply not possible.
Right before the government rebates on EVs ended as well, odd.
Not according to the article.
It doesn't say that it was right before that rebate program ended no, but this story has been mentioned more than once, and that's the context.
To be fair, I was under the impression that it was all EV's but apparently it's only Tesla's.
EDIT: Actually, that link I provided link to an earlier article from the 18th.
No, the article very clearly states this was in January and precipitated from the government saying they didn't expect the funds to last to the end of the program.
Rebates ended because they cash grabbed the money
If we're going for the cartoon reference, surely Steamed Hams would work:
"Thousands of premium car sales, in this part of the year, in his part of the country, localized entirely within the last seconds of a government incentive scheme?"
"Yes."
"May I see?"
"No."
(Musk's mother, off screen) "The company is on fire!"
"No, mother, it's just a red hot deal!"
Well, Muskrat, you are an odd fellow, but you steam a good company.
Tesla doesn't have dealerships though - they have stores.