The sales numbers provided by the company-owned shops allowed them to claim tens of millions in government rebates. Now those numbers are under scrutiny.

Tesla sold around 8,600 electric vehicles in just three days across four locations in Canada earlier this year. This unexpected sales boom, which took place in January, has triggered an official investigation into whether the company unlawfully benefited from government rebates.

Tesla has been barred from all of Canada's electric vehicle rebate policies due to "illegitimate and illegal U.S. tariffs."

Canada has banned cars made by Elon Musk’s Tesla from future electric vehicle rebate programs as the country engages in a tit-for-tat trade dispute with President Trump, the country’s transport

Chadd Ritenbaugh, 55, was charged with vandalizing a Tesla by scratching a swastika on it outside a Planet Fitness gym in Doylestown. The suspect was identified through security footage and his gym membership.

Canada has frozen $43 million in payments to Tesla pending a line-by-line investigation into its last-minute surge in EV rebate claims.

Along with the investigation into the last-minute claims, Tesla vehicles also will be banned from future EV rebate programs “so long as the illegitimate and illegal U.S. tariffs are imposed against Canada.

Canada has announced a plan that will probably hurt Tesla sales there. The EV maker's problems in Canada are the tip of a very big iceberg.