When the federal government reopened the online portal for car dealers to claim EV rebates this summer, it was supposed to be for all the independent Canadian dealers who got stiffed when Tesla gobbled up almost all the remaining money and forced the subsidy program to close early.

But new data released Monday shows that Tesla came back for more and ended up claiming more government money than any other EV brand.

This summer, the American EV giant claimed more than 20 per cent of the additional $20.4 million in rebates filed during a special makeup period after the iZEV program prematurely shut down in January.

The government had abruptly paused its EV rebate program after receiving an “ unprecedented surge ” in rebate claims from Tesla, which used an automated system to mass-file

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