Tesla referral code Canada — frequently asked questions

No. The code is free and applies at checkout. It gives eligible buyers a 3-month free FSD (Supervised) trial; the code’s owner may earn Tesla Credits.

After delivery, automatically — no coupon or paperwork. You must have opened the referral link before completing your order; there is no field for the code on its own.

Model 3, Model Y and Cybertruck. Model S and Model X were removed from the referral program in March 2026 and get no buyer benefit.

No. Tesla does not sell solar panels or Solar Roof to consumers in Canada (only Powerwall), so the U.S.-style solar referral simply does not exist here.

Up to C$325 in Tesla Credits per qualifying vehicle referral, rising to C$650 if the buyer adds FSD (Supervised). Benefits are capped per year — re-verify the current cap.

BC residents get no referrer benefit at all. In Québec, the buyer still gets the FSD trial, but the C$20 FSD demo-drive credit is not available.

Generally no. Tesla recognizes the referral at order time; if you start without one, it usually can’t be added later. Buyer benefits apply to your first qualifying Tesla only.

A referral link (ts.la/<code>) is just the owner’s code wrapped in a URL. Opening it pre-applies the code. Both routes lead to the same benefit.

Possibly, and it is worth far more than the referral — but two screens decide it, and neither is the price you see advertised. The federal iZEV program closed on 31 March 2025 and was replaced in 2026 by the Electric Vehicle Affordability Program, reported at $5,000 for 2026 and stepping down in later years. To qualify, the vehicle must be built in a country holding a free-trade agreement with Canada, and the final transaction value must come in under $50,000 — with options, paint and delivery all counting toward that figure. A configuration that clears the cap in base form can fail once specced up, so check your configurator total rather than the starting price, and confirm the current eligible-vehicle list with Transport Canada.

No, in either direction. The rebate is administered by government and the referral is a Tesla program; neither conditions the other, and there is nothing to declare or coordinate. What they do share is that both are decided before you finish ordering — the rebate by your configuration and its final transaction value, the referral by whether you opened a link before configuring. Sort the rebate question first: it is worth several times the referral, and unlike the referral it depends on choices you can still change at the configurator.

Yes, and they differ from each other in kind rather than just amount. Québec’s Roulez vert was halved for 2026 to a maximum of $2,000 on a new EV and is scheduled to end on 31 December 2026, with a new EV registration fee arriving in 2027 — so the Québec calendar matters more than in any other province. British Columbia’s passenger rebate is structured around household income rather than the vehicle, and public sources currently disagree on whether it is still being paid, so we publish no BC figure as fact. Ontario has no provincial purchase rebate we can verify, which leaves the federal program as the only layer. Confirm your own province on its government page before budgeting.

Not for the referral, which follows your order and is applied to the car regardless of the date. It can matter a great deal for the government layer. The federal amount is designed to taper year by year, so a delivery crossing 1 January can land on a smaller rebate — reported as stepping from $5,000 in 2026 to $4,000 in 2027. In Québec the effect is sharper still, because Roulez vert is scheduled to end entirely at the close of 2026. Eligibility generally follows the delivery rather than the order, so a December order with a January delivery may not help. Ask Tesla for an estimated delivery window before you commit, and let that inform the timing rather than the referral, which is identical in every month of every year.