{"id":42448,"date":"2025-10-08T01:12:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=42448"},"modified":"2025-10-08T01:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:13:07","slug":"tesla-used-bots-to-run-the-bank-on-millions-in-canadian-ev-rebates-but-didnt-fake-sales-government-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=42448","title":{"rendered":"Tesla used bots to run the bank on millions in Canadian EV rebates \u2014 but didn\u2019t fake sales: Government investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68cc860a8c759.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Tesla filed more than 8,600 rebate claims in under 72 hours to make a run on the bank of Canada\u2019s dwindling EV subsidies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/tesla-used-bots-to-run-the-bank-on-millions-in-canadian-ev-rebates-but-didnt\/article_9c4ba4fb-dc8e-4275-b336-884480207912.html\">Tesla used bots to run the bank on millions in Canadian EV rebates \u2014 but didn\u2019t fake sales: Government investigation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>tl;dr: tesla did a whole bunch of automated applications; should have done them more timely per the rules, but said rules not well enforced; easy solution: disbar automated robots filling forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fta: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla filed more than 8,600 rebate claims in under 72 hours to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,244,123],"class_list":["post-42448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-ev","tag-tesla","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42451,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42448\/revisions\/42451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}