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Posting my comment from another forum:
The point isn't to sell 93 mile range Teslas, and Tesla purposely chose that pitiful range just to dissuade people from ordering. The real purpose is to qualify the more expensive Teslas for the $5k rebate.
"Tesla is changing the Model 3 Standard Range to a software-limited 93-mile range vehicle that starts at $44,999, just $1 under the $45,000 limit set by Canada. Since its base price is under $45,000, then the Standard Range Plus also qualifies for the $5,000 incentive. This vehicle starts at $53,700, and is available for ordering via Tesla's website. Because it's considered a trim level of the Model 3 "Standard Range" and comes in under $55,000, Tesla and Canada say it's good for the $5,000 EV incentive. The $53,700 base price is no different than what was listed before this revelation, but after the incentive it's down to $48,700.
These are the chicken tax sort of games we play when the government thinks it's going to outsmart the free market for their benevolent purposes.
I'm going to LOL if Tesla is able to offer a purchasable upgrade to the software limited 93 mile range version, which should be legally possible considering they can sell the more expensive trim.
I expect dumb laws to be circumvented by ingenuity, but I never considered it could be done in software. Practically no effort to circumvent that dumb law. Tesla can implement the change tomorrow if they wanted, meanwhile fixing this crack in the law will probably take a year for corrupt politicians to finally "fix".
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