Hi all,
i just registered on this forum to vent my frustration for the MTO and how incompetent they are. I got an email yesterday after following people's advice of contacting them directly to check up.
Warning: Don't be drinking anything/coffee or holding anything when you read below as you may spit out your drink or want to throw it at the screen.
Electric and Hydrogen Vehicles Incentive Program (MTO) <[email protected]>
Feb 28, 2019, 3:44 PM (15 hours ago)
Hello,
Thank you for applying to the Electric and Hydrogen Vehicle Incentive Program (EHVIP). After carefully reviewing your application, we regret to inform you that your application is ineligible for an incentive for the following reason:
· Your vehicle was not on the ministry approved order list.
The program was cancelled on July 11th 2018; as a result, eligible vehicles ordered on or before July 11, 2018 but plated and registered between July 12, 2018 and September 10, 2018 must be on the ministry approved order list from dealers and manufacturers to be considered for an incentive. If you have concerns with this decision, please reach out to your dealership. If the dealership states that your vehicle was on the ministry approved order list, please have them contact the Ministry at
[email protected] to provide the required information for Ministry review.
For more information on vehicle eligibility following the cancellation of the program please consult the ministry’s website at
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/vehicles/electric/electric-vehicle-incentive-program.shtml. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this notice of denial, please contact the Ministry by email at
[email protected] or by telephone at (647) 274-0356
Thank you,
EHVIP Team
Ministry of Transportation
Government of Ontario
So here is the crazy thing. I ordered my car mid march - and got my car
plated on July 12, 2018. So my dealer shared with me the document they received on July 12, 2018 regarding the cancellation. the gist of it:
Action required by close of business Monday July 16, 2018. Submissions will only
be accepted once. In order to avoid any mistakes and to ensure remaining
incentives will be applicable to your inventory, please consult your RSC prior to
submitting your inventory list(s).
Honda Claritys that have been delivered, registered and plated on or before July 11, 2018* will receive the
incentive
Clarity inventory on dealer lots and Clarity orders placed by dealerships with Honda Canada on or before July
11, 2018 will be eligible for the incentive provided the vehicle is delivered to customers, registered, and
plated by September 10, 2018*
Eligible inventory must be confirmed with the Ministry of Transportation by end of day Monday July 16,
2018
There's a bit more to the notice but i didnt put all the unimportant stuff. Clearly my Clarity was being plated while the Government dropped the bomb on July 11, 2018 with no prior notice. Since the deadline to submit the inventory was July 16, and my car was already plated July 12 (i picked it up right away)!, no dealerships in their right mind would put that car in this inventory list if i drove the car away already.
I fired back an email to that email address:
Attached to this email is the correspondence my dealership received from the MTO regarding the cancellation. I would like to point out that my application was not carefully reviewed as one can see that my vehicle was possibly in the process of plating on July 11, 2018. It is unfair that the Government is not providing a transitioning grace period - if you look at your own notice to my dealership, the deadline to fill out the inventory is
July 16, 2018. My vehicle was plated
July 12, 2018. When your notice reached my dealership
my car was already plated. And that is the reason why my dealership did not put the car on the inventory list, and my car should not given this harsh treatment on matters that are basically within minutes. In my opinion the deadline should not be July 11 and should be July 16 which is what MTO has given to the dealerships to fill out the inventory.
I can ask my dealership to provide the date that the vehicle registration forms were submitted to a Service Ontario and maybe i can claim that they held up the process if it becomes necessary. I have also asked my salesperson to contact the EHVIP team as per this email.
Will see how this goes....