Tesla has used about 12% of Canada’s first-window quota for Chinese-built EVs, the only automaker yet to move volume under the new system announced last January.
Global Affairs Canada data show 2,910 vehicles imported under the quota as of May 29, against a cap of 24,500 for the window that opened March 1 and runs to August 31.
The figures leave 21,590 permits available.
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Car shipments from Shanghai adds roughly four to six weeks, so even permits filed on day one would not have landed cars much before mid-spring.
The 2,910 figure equals 11.9% of the window’s allocation, and competitors have yet to register a single unit.
At this pace, Tesla could claim a large share of the 24,500 ceiling before the window closes at the end of August.
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Any Canadian buying a Tesla is a traitor. And the cars are absolute garbage to boot.
I tend to be a little forgiving to people driving them as it’s possible they bought before learning. Cybertruck owners (and elon) can
(I know there’s an elon gif that’s appropriate but seriously fuck that guy).I don’t because Musk was always an ass. Even before he supported Trump and came out as a Nazi.
i actually never jumped on the fanboy bandwagion when he was at the height of his popularity, there was always something so disengenious about him, it was pretty much unforgivable when he ruined californias chances of a highs speed rail with his HYPERLOOP scam, after the “cave pedo incident”
There was a time when the media lionized him, I can forgive people that because I can’t expect everyone to research every public figure in depth.
Musk was a POS long before the cybercuck came out.
But buying Chinese vehicles isn’t a traitor?
Why don’t you explain how it is?
China’s larger geopolitical ambitions are directly opposed to Canada’s. Helping a hostile foreign government make surveillance and economic inroads into Canada is treasonous.
China hasn’t said they want to annex us, the us has. China isn’t actively promoting fossil fuels and making it harder for us to switch to renewable tech. China does some bad shit, right now they are looking a whole lot better than our neighbour to the south.
What the fuck is wrong with you.
Nothing is wrong with me. A rival doesn’t have to explicitly state their intentions FFS. Chinese cops policing Chinese-Canadians on Canadian soil, chinese intelligence assets caught infiltrating government and tech companies, Chinese expansion in South China Sea and exertion of control of Taiwan and it’s fabs. China has been engaged in geopolitical maneuvers for decades with belt and road and it ain’t to strengthen Canada but to strengthen China is relation to Canada, and everyone else.
America is a dumpster fire but running into China’s orbit isn’t a good answer and selling out Canadians isn’t a way forward.
What geopolitical ambitions of China’s are in direct opposition to Canada’s?
China builds trains and canada hates trains.
OK that’s fair
Which aren’t?
Idk I think China wants to cut back on climate change, that seems in line with Canadian interests. But if you want to stop being a dumbass and back up your claim rather than shout “nuh-uh!” That’d be nice.
I mean, how could I resist a dialogue with someone who characterizes my comments so respectfully?
and musk isnt? his platforms is the reason for the rise of right wing propaganda in canada.
Of course he is, and China, Russia and India all operate disinformation campaigns in Canada through communication mediums like X. There’s Chinese propagandists blatantly operating on Lemmy.
It’s not just Canada.
And Musk isnt doing the exact same?
Musk isn’t a country so no, not quite the same. He’s the corporate equivalent though and yes, he can also kick rocks.
But why? No sane person would buy a Tesla in Canada, you’re asking for your million $ dumpster-fire to be vandalized, and it’s not even a good EV these days. Tesla is just paying taxes on fields of rusting lithium coffins.
There are Canadian MAGA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_separatismReally the majority of people buying Teslas nowadays just don’t care / don’t know better… like “I don’t do politics” people or “I’m not an Elon Musk fanboy I’m just buying a car”.
The slimiest ones will go for the Cybertruck of course, but people still buying Model 3’s are just everyday idiots, not Maple MAGA (these folks prefer their F150 and similar stupid trucks)
The “I’m not political” people are almost as bad as the far-right in a way, because they see the world burning around them and demonstrate that they don’t stand for anything, and can be convinced to vote for the far-right with a tax break dangled in front of them.
Yeah, I don’t disagree. I different type of problem but still a major problem. Don’t even need real tax breaks, usually just tough on crime rhetorics and zero action suffices
MAGA hate EV, they love oil, coal, and being grifted.
thats why they have thier giant F-150 monstrosities, or equivalent, sometimes lifted. most of them are lifted to varying degrees.
I’m an Albertan, I am all too painfully aware. Even Maple MAGA however would never buy a Tesla on account of the fact that driving an electric in oil country is a bad idea. If it’s not belching smoke they don’t want it, so the only market for them is people with a lot of money, not much intelligence, and a deathwish. That’s a very small and already heavily saturated market.
I’m confused, why does an American manufacturer count towards a Chinese quota?
These cars come from Tesla’s plant in Shanghai, China.
This is the worst of both worlds.
Tesla should be excluded.
On the other hand, having Tesla mixed in the bunch does poison the straw man argument that Chinese EVs come from slave labour… the slave labour allegation instantly becomes a self own if the company responsible is from the USA.
the straw man argument that Chinese EVs come from slave labour
There is ample evidence for forced labour in China, and this includes not just BYD and other Chinese automakers but foreign brands, too.
Yes, and there is ample evidence for forced labour in Canada too. I didn’t imply that there isn’t, but I am saying that China is held to a different standard in that regard
China isn’t held to a different standard. Labour rights are much weaker in China than in Western democracies (Xi Jinping has been rejected social welfare frequently as, according to him, it makes people 'lazy), coercive practices are more widespread (the 996 working culture in China is well-known), and particularly supply chain transparency in China is non-existent.
Just look what Chinese carmaker BYD has done in its factories in Brazil and in Hungary.
Forced labour is bad everywhere if it happens, but your argument amounts to whataboutism.
China isn’t held to a different standard.
It is, and nothing you said is evidence of the contrary. Labour rights in the US are much weaker than western democracies (Republicans have rejected social welfare frequently as, according to them, it’s socialism). And?
Just look what Chinese carmaker BYD has done in its factories in Brazil and in Hungary.
These reflect the labour relations in Brazil and in Hungary, and the fact that they are in these countries will mean that the labour relationship they build there will reflect what the local laws will dictate.
Forced labour is bad everywhere if it happens, but your argument amounts to whataboutism.
It would be if I were saying that slave labour in China isn’t a bad thing because Canada also does it. It’s not what I’m saying. China has a forced labour problem, but using it to control car imports is to hold China to different standards unless you support that Canada should also be subject to international sanctions on our agricultural exports.
