Tesla Referral Code for British Columbia

Buyers win, referrers don’t: BC is the province where the referrer reward disappears entirely. Here’s exactly what that means.

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What BC buyers still get

If you are buying, the referral is still worth using: you get the same 3-month free FSD (Supervised) trial on a Model 3, Y or Cybertruck. The exclusion only removes the reward the person who shared the code would otherwise earn.

CleanBC Go Electric (verify current amounts)

BC’s provincial rebate is income-tested and its amounts and Tesla-trim eligibility change — check the current CleanBC Go Electric terms at time of purchase. Treat any figure you see quoted elsewhere as needing confirmation.

BC is the one province where your income decides the rebate

Every other rebate on this site is gated on the car. British Columbia’s is gated on you. The CleanBC Go Electric passenger rebate has been restructured around household income, which changes the question from “does my Tesla qualify?” to “do I?” — and it is why two neighbours ordering the identical Model Y in Vancouver can receive very different amounts.

What British Columbia still pays for while the car rebate is paused

A paused vehicle rebate is not the same as no provincial support, and the distinction is worth money to a new owner. The support that survived the pause is aimed at the charging side rather than the purchase: BC Hydro runs a home-charger rebate covering up to half the cost of buying and installing a charger, capped at $350 for a single-family home, row home or duplex. For a strata or apartment there is a separate multi-unit stream with a materially higher per-charger cap, and a workplace stream for employers. Amounts and terms are set by BC Hydro, not by the paused provincial vehicle program, which is why one stopping did not stop the other.

The other thing that did not pause is the federal side. The federal iZEV program closed in 2025 once its funding was exhausted, and the EV Affordability Program that replaced it opened in February 2026 with rebates of up to $5,000 on an eligible battery-electric vehicle. A British Columbian and an Ontarian are treated identically by it. That is the number to build a budget around at the moment, because it is the one with an open application behind it.

Why “paused” is the word that matters here

Paused and ended read the same on a budget spreadsheet and mean very different things for a purchase decision. An ended program will not return under that name, so you can plan around its absence permanently. A paused one is held open administratively: it can reopen with new funding, and it can reopen with different rules than it had when it stopped. British Columbia has done exactly this on the commercial side, where the zero-emission vehicle stream reopened after its own funding pause — evidence that a pause here is a real state, not a polite way of saying closed.

The practical consequence for timing: do not delay an order in the hope that the passenger rebate returns before your delivery, because no reopening date has been published and a reopened program is not obliged to keep its old amounts. Equally, do not assume a rebate you were counting on last year is still there. Check the province's rebate portal on the day you order — that single check is worth more than any figure quoted on a page written months earlier, this one included.

What you can rely on in BC regardless

Two things are stable while the provincial picture is not. The referral benefit is federal-flat: the same three-month FSD (Supervised) trial a buyer gets in Ontario or Québec, unaffected by any provincial program. And the federal EVAP applies in BC on the same terms as everywhere else, gated on build market and a final transaction value under $50,000 rather than on your income.

The practical sequence for a BC buyer, then: settle the federal question first because its rules are knowable, treat any provincial amount as unconfirmed until you have read it on a government page yourself, and attach the referral link at the start of the ordering session because it costs nothing and does not interact with either.

The two federal eligibility screens, in detail

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J. Tremblay — Editor, Refera (placeholder persona — see README). Reviewed 2026-07-14.