Minister of Transport Christia Freeland announced on Tuesday that Canada froze all payments of discounts for Tesla And that he wants to exclude Elona Musk from future discount programs for electric vehicles, “Reuters said.
In the information sent by e -mail to the Freeland agency, he stated that the returns would not be made until each claim was examined individually and considered justified.
The Canadian Minister of Transport also wants Tesla vehicles to be excluded from future subsidies. To achieve this goal, Freeland ordered the transport department to revise the requirements so that Tesla vehicles do not qualify for future IZEV programs. The Elon Muska brand is to be excluded from subsidies as long as “illegal and unlawful duties of the USA are imposed on Canada.”
Tesla did not respond to Reuters’s request for comment.
Suspended 30 miles USD
Reuters passed for Toronto Star that Canada froze payments for Tesla in the amount of 43 million Canadian dollars (USD 30.11 million).
At the beginning of this month, the Gazeta The Star announced that in January Tesla has submitted an extremely large number of applications for reimbursement of the purchase of electric vehicles. One sales salon in the city of Quebec demanded almost $ 20 million in Canadian public subsidies, documenting the sale of over 4,000 electric vehicles in one weekend.
At the beginning of this month, Toronto suspended the offer of financial incentives For people buying Tesla cars as a taxi or shared journeys due to commercial tensions from the USA.
Trade war of the corpse
Reuters reminds that US President Donald Trump imposed a lot of new duties on Canada and Mexico, closest neighbors and US economic partners. The new tariffs, in the amount of 25 %, are to include most Canadian goods, and are to enter into force at the beginning of April.
