So, the Rumours Appear to be True

Completely removing inventory doesn’t make sense. Maybe it’s sold out?

Aren’t the Canadian Model 3s imported from China? That would make them difficult to ship to the US for sale.

Not sold out. Tesla sales in Canada have been in a free fall for about 18 months. In Quebec for instance, sales are effectively zero. All used and demo inventory has magically disappeared, too

Does that apply to used Cars?

I think they're German built due to tariffs on Chinese vehicles being 100% (until recently) EDIT: They're built in Freemont. Our MY is built in Germany

They are all going to SpaceX.

Yeah, I think I got it confused, Canadian Ys are made in Germany, and German 3s are made in China.

There's zero new model 3 in the Lower Mainland according to their website and only two used ones.

Canadian M3s are made in Freemont. They were made in China up until a couple of years ago when the Canadian government put a 100% tariff on Chinese built vehicles. That will come to an end soon, but even so, imports from China will be restricted to 49,000 units per year across all manufacturers and average MSRP will be restricted, too.

They're sold out! All depends on how you look at it.

M3 is waaaay too expensive here in Canada. Maybe Shanghai built ones would be more reasonable?

No used or demo inventory in the GTA

I'm sure this is how Elon will paint it 😆

They probably just got bought up by some federal government department in the States.

Same logic as the Roadster. Demand is so high that they are absolutely sold out for the next 10 years! What a genius!!

Stack them one on top of the other, to the moon!

The sales dropped like 46% last year cause of the moron lol it was in the news so funny and they gave him a trillion dollar package

Are you planning on importing a used car from China?

He is getting his cakes frosted by either having one of his other companies buy them or from corrupt government deals.

Feb 25, 2025 Elon Musk "Canada is not a real country" -- per Forrest Gump "Stupid is as stupid does"

Musk: today we are pivoting from a robot company to a space elevator company.

Get them out of our country. I don’t think they are pulling out or anything. They still opened new service centres in the past year.

Doubtful they would be sold out, those are cheap in the EU, to the tune it's cheaper to lease 3 than small ICE car, yet sales are disappointing.

This isn't the first time the inventory search returns no results. It's always been obvious that the inventory cars on their website have never truly reflected physical inventory, and there is some algorithm behind it. This algorithm, in my opinion, is designed with two functions goals: 1: Drive sales orders of new cars by falsely implying scarcity of immediately available cars. 2: Prevent analysis of things like sales mix, average ownership life, inventory financial valuation, residuals etc. Speculating somewhat here as the algorithm is not known, I suspect there is a date component to it, as we often see wild swings around the start of the month.

He sold them to xAI and now are taken with the rest of the patrimony by SpaceX :-)

The inventory only shows 1 of each configuration. So there might be 3 model 3s in white of a certain year and with the standard interior but the website will only show 1.

Only if he manages to sell millions of FSD. That is why autopilot was killed and the subscription was introduced.

Maybe they're waiting for stock from Shanghai?

I drove passed a Tesla location (Indianapolis, 82nd street, next to a mall) on Thursday and there are at least 200 model Ys parked; likely new. The Tesla sales center is next to this with another 100 or so unsold Tesla's

Yup. Canadians are actively avoiding US built cars, product of USA food, as well as traveling to the US.

Demand is so high you cannot buy a new one today in the area and need to be put on a waitlist for which we charge 100 dollars/day

People pay a premium for other cars, solely to not have a Tesla, that is remarkable…

It's funny that they prefer Renault Clios or Dacia Sanderos, that's how cheap the 3 is (was) to lease in the EU.

I don't think they're pulling out, either. It seems it's inventory shuffling

I confirmed with Grok that there's no new, used or demo inventory M3 inventory in Canada. But it wouldn't explain why. The reason I did the search in the first place was an acquaintance of mine was in a sales centre yesterday and was told all inventory had been shipped back to the USA. I'll be going near a sales centre later today so I'll pop my head in there and check

All Tesla's are too expensive in Canada. While I was on the site I checked CT inventory. $160-$180K!!!

Like that’s going to happen if there aren’t enough new sales to help boost that number. Older owners are going to subscribe to FSD with old hardware.

How ? Canadian cars are left side driving Edit: left hand to left side

Huh?

Used model 3s in Canada will usually have been produced at the Shanghai plant.

So's the USA

Ah so looking to import a used M3 from Canada to the USA?

Yea because US cars are heavily tarried and rhe US made model 3 coats 20,000 more than the German made model Y

Canada doesnt tariff any USA built vehicles outside of CUSMA.

In Canada Model Y starting price is $50k model 3 starting starting price is $80k Geee I wonder why they’re not selling 🤔

You've hit the nail on the head! Plus, people don't like being told by Musk that Canada's a nothing country

Model Y is selling very well though,

Return to sender.

🤣 they get what they deserve

100% we are avoiding all that as much as possible.

Does the trade deal between Canada and China delete or reduce reciprocal auto related tariff?

The guy never intended to run a car company long term... He thought he would be on Mars by now... So his antics are becoming increasingly ridiculous as he tries to keep Tesla looking like a legitimate car company... IE... To hide the Cybertruck failure on paper he purchased a bunch of the inventory using Space. Wouldn't be too surprised if he was doing the same with other models as their sales continue to tank as people become less willing to buy vehicles from a guy making a CSAM-friendly AI while he does the "Roman salute" 🤷‍♂️ Tesla isn't viable without the rebates that he helped to end by helping the current administration be elected.

Model 3s come from the US and are slapped with a 25% tariff. The Model Y currently comes from Germany with zero tariffs. Model 3s are more expensive than the Y because of this. Model 3s will most likely come from China now since we lifted the EV tariff. Germany does not make model 3s at this time. I am in Canada and just bought a new Y in December.

Ok.. guess I'll just go buy one of the 20 other EVs on the market. Or just wait on the BYDs to get here from China and blow them all away. Tesla who?

My post was sarcastic to explain the marketing tagline to there not being as Tesla’s as a joke

I understood your sarcasm. The Canadian EV buyer now has so many options compared to 10 years ago. It's a wonder buyers still put up with the Musk BS.

Good, get rid of them. Every time I see them it reminds me of that dingus

Separate issue but I obviously agree. BYD especially I think will really take off

Without a minimum price for FSD it's going to be easy to hit that number. Without a clear definition of what an optimus robot is, making a lot can be incredibly easy. The sales target can be reached within 10 years even if sales are down and never reach 22/23 levels ever again. The stock price is detached from reality so that's possible to reach even for a failing company. There are some targets that are real, but the tranches are set up so that the easy ones pay out even if the last ones are not met.

It's almost as if giving sieg heils and supporting a convicted felon con man who wants to annex Canada is bad for business.

And this is even though a lot of 'experts' predicted the boycotts would not last. That people would eventually forget about it and move on. If anything the boycotts are becoming more entrenched. I know that I am still doing my part.

So same with their 'public robotaxi service' in Austin. Just can't get them. Obviously very high demand. /s

Well, prove them right. Buy something else then if they don’t want to make it available in Canada.

I don't want one. This whole thing was kicked off by a colleague of mine who went to look at an M3 and was told they were all shipped to the US, demos and all

Definitely.

I think this is a strictly business decision that most CEOs would make. Products made in the U.S. are subject to tariffs, whereas products made in China are no longer subject to tariffs. So, I think Tesla will import cars made in China to sell in Canada.

Can you tell the folks in Quebec about that please? They still seem to be clogging up the roads here in South Florida.

Yep. It's Model 3s all the way down.

For what it's worth. We went to the dealership 2 weeks ago to buy ours and the place was booked beyond belief. It looked like a carnival of people. There were some 3s on the lot, but not in the variation we wanted and it had to be built. It was in production on the 8th day and will be here in 2 weeks.

As a border town kid who grew up adjacent to the border, I have pivoted to Canadian bacon. I still miss the real thing from my youth we would get on short jaunts to Ontario as it was rolled in pea meal. I can still remember how it would crackle in the pan :)

You got a massive amount of them not going there anymore. So much that Air Transat and Air Canada canceled their flights between Mtl and Fort Lauderdale.

If anyone will buy them. Why buy 10 year old design when the Chinese will flood the market with newer (and objectively better) models?

Have you seen Phineas and Ferb? When they take a picture, they say "Say Canadian bacon!", and everyone says, "Ham!"

Yes. I Love Phineas and Ferb. I have good friends who spent most of their lives in Italy. I spent part of my career adjacent to the food industry. Over time got to see how all sorts of things are made. Canadian bacon is still mostly done to the weird North American standard of wet curing rather than dry curing. Wet is way cheaper, faster and more dependent on chemical processes. My Italian friends remain partial to pancetta vs bacon as well as proscuitto vs ham. One of my favorites nowadays is dry cured canadian bacon. Once you see the wet curing process so popular in North America it is hard to get psyched to eat the products. Of course I knew nothing of any of this as a youngster. I just knew that crackling sound of the pea meal was fun!!!

Well now that they're sold out I want to buy one. 🤔🤔😂

Reminds me of South Park after the purchase of the theme park by Cartman when other places try his you can’t come in mentality. And they show an empty restaurant with the front desk saying you cannot come. We are full. Lol

> Stack them one on top of the other, to the moon! That makes sense: it's a lot closer than Mars.

You clearly are not familiar with south Park. https://youtu.be/bOR38552MJA?si=Uy2iduVR1YoXiR61

😂 😂 😂

Wonderful! One of the many things I am thankful for that my children introduced me to many years ago!

As a long time south Florida resident I can confidently say we love the Canadians - but every single French Canadian can stay in Canada. We don’t need their money. We don’t need their bad attitude. Ask anybody in south Florida and you will hear exactly the same thing. Again- love Canadians, but the French Canadians can stay in Canada. Thank you.

That's just one of twelve tranche of the package. The tranches are: * 20 million vehicles delivered... which should be relatively easy given that they've already delivered about 9 million and are delivering 1.6 million per year. * 10 million active FSD subscriptions. Easy given that Musk can change the terms of FSD at any time. Maybe he gives free access to everyone (or $1 if it needs to be paid) for a week. * 1 million robotaxis deployed... should be easy since this doesn't seem to be clear what a robotaxi is. Is it a taxi with a driver inside, with a monitor driving behind it, with a remote operator... etc? * 1 million Optimus robots... should be easy if you have a mass production line. * The rest are EBITDA targets between $50 billion - $400 billion.

Basically reverse-ponzi scheme

Is that all? Why didn’t they make him stop ruining Tesla brand which caused sales drop worldwide by 30%. And stop him post stupid on X. This falls all on Teslas brand. This interview was painful to watch especially when he couldn’t answer an easy question why people should use x. https://youtu.be/Rni7Fz7208c?t=592s

They are pivoting to import Model 3s built in Shanghai in order to benefit from the newly implemented Chinese EV quota program

Sounds like what I hear from my Canadian flight attendant friend about Americans, to be honest. Flight attendants don't need their bad, entitled attitude, especially. Many don't want to fly US routes because of it. P.S. Canadians born in or living in Quebec are still Canadians. P.P.S. You don't love Canadians.

Surely you have an independent source for that?

Correct, they don’t have any usable batteries to put in them. The cathode department in Austin is the hub and is so mismanaged that they are now trying to shutter that operation and just import materials from Ronbay and china directly. They closed the Freemont facility and now cannot make batteries in Cathode Austin due to sub-par management and are relying mostly on in-place stocks or refurbished/repurposed batteries. This is Elon’s swan song as the vehicles no longer interest him nor are they making any money due to poor demand.

No, US made teslas are USMCA compliant and so still are tariff free (as long as Tesla can figure out how to fill out some pretty basic paperwork).

Why would be a benefit financially? The cars made in the US and Germany were already tariff free with no car count restriction

Wow! That’s a very classy statement. Many people could say the same about Americans, but hey, we’re Canadians—we don’t generalize like you seem to do!