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If we assume that the dealers did a 24 hour shift it means:

  • 3 Days á 24 Hours = 72 hours
  • 8653 Cars / 72 Hours = 120 cars per hour
  • 120 / 60 = 2 cars per minute...
  • So one car sold every 30 seconds.

If we assume normal 8 hours per day:

  • 3 days á 8 Hours = 24 hours
  • 8653 / 24 = 360 cars per hour
  • 360 / 60 = 6 cars per minute.
  • So one car sold every 10 seconds.

Without reading through the article: No, I'm pretty sure they didn't sell that many cars. --

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lemmy.world

If I had a crowd of people around me begging for a free car and all they had to do was sign the paperwork (the minimum legally required steps to buy a car) I couldn't keep up with that.

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Not to mention that you would then also need an extra person to continuously refill the paper in the printer for 8 hours. :)

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Per the article it was a combines sum from 4 dealerships. Multiply the times by 4 for the average per location.

A dealership selling a car every 40 seconds is still physically impossible.

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it was a graveyard math graph

It cosined in a flash

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Now the Canadian government wants to know exactly how the electric carmaker managed to move two cars a minute off its lots — a rate that assumes those four dealers had stayed open 24 hours from Jan. 10 to Jan. 12.

the article's author did the math too!

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lemmy.world

They technically probably did. They sold them to themselves. The plan was to sell them, get the credits, then sell them as used zero mile vehicles at a discount.

It’s shady as hell and they should be fined.

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lemm.ee

Nah of course not it’s obvious fraud. Question is what happens now ?

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