Car dealers still seeking reimbursement for EVs sold under old rebates program
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The reborn federal electric vehicle rebate program is set to launch Monday — but some of Canada's auto dealers say they're still out tens of thousands dollars from the last one.
The reborn federal electric vehicle rebate program is set to launch Monday — but some of Canada’s auto dealers say they’re still out tens of thousands dollars from the last one.
Starting Monday, Canadians can access up to $5,000 in government rebates toward the purchase of new electric vehicles that cost less than $50,000. Plug-in hybrids will be eligible for $2,500 in subsidies.
The return of the popular program is being welcomed by car dealerships. But some dealerships have their guard up because the government’s portal to submit reimbursement claims won’t be launched until April.
“It’s a little worrisome. Obviously my antlers are a little bit more raised with what’s going on, and I’m going to be on top of every claim. Just because I don’t trust the system anymore,” said Dean Woods, sales manager at a Kia dealership in Grimsby, Ont.
Woods told The Canadian Press his dealership is out $20,000 from the old program after Transport Canada refused to reimburse it for rebates applied to EVs it sold.
The cars were sold in 2024 but the dealership’s office manager didn’t notice they hadn’t been reimbursed by the government until a month ago. Woods wrote to Transport Canada asking to be reimbursed but Transport Canada refused because the program had ended a year ago.
After Woods pressed the department further and provided documentation to support the claims, Transport Canada chalked it up to an error in the submission form.
“Therefore, you never received the claim number confirmations for these four submissions, and it was never received by the iZEV Program,” a Transport Canada official said in a letter to Woods last month, which he shared with The Canadian Press.
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