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Man Destroys Tesla Instead Of Replacing $23,000 Battery
The cost of a new Tesla Model S is about $95,000, but the experience of blowing one up is priceless.
Finnish man Tuomas Katainen bought his Tesla in 2013, and it rode like a dream, for about the first 930 miles. “It was an excellent car,” he said. “Then the error codes hit.”
After a month in the shop, mechanics said he’d need the “whole battery cell” replaced, at a price of 20,000 euros, or about $23,900.
“So I told them I’m coming to pick up the Tesla,” he said in a video, produced by Finnish YouTuber Pommijätkät. “Now I’m going to explode the whole car away.”
More than 2.8 million have watched the eight-and-a-half-minute episode of the reality stunt web show, which received a call from Katainen for help blowing up his out-of-warranty Tesla.
Crews set up the explosion at a former quarry in snowy Jaala, in southern Finland, where they flanked about 66 pounds (33 kilograms) of dynamite to the self-driving sedan.
The event wouldn’t be complete of course without Elon Musk in attendance, which, naturally, he was not. But the crew did go so far as to hire a helicopter to fly over the blast site and drop a crash test dummy with a portrait of Elon Musk glued to its face. It was also wearing a jumpsuit and a helmet, for realism.
Tesla has been fighting off a lot of negative feedback as of late. The carmaker is currently dealing with some heat from the government after the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced a probe into their built-in gaming console earlier this week. Tesla quickly responded and agreed to disable the “Passenger Play” feature from 580,000 vehicles from their 2017 lines.
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