A slightly excessive decision. In Finland, a disgruntled owner set fire to his own Tesla brand vehicle accompanied by a model bearing the image of Elon Musk, reports the website La Nouvelle Tribune. The car broke down as a result of a problem with the battery cell. The young man, named Tuomas Katainen, had acquired this Tesla S Model 2013 thinking he was driving the ultimate in electric cars. “When I bought this Tesla the first 1,500 kilometers were nice, it was a great car so far,” he said. Then the Tesla experienced some complications.
“The error code came in, so I ordered a tow truck to take my car to a service. The car spent about a month and a half in a Tesla dealership workshop and finally got a call. telling me that they could not do anything for my car, the only option is to change the whole battery cell “, continued Tuomas Katainen in his explanation.
20,000 euros in repairs
The decision to destroy the vehicle came to him when he learned that the repairs should cost him at least 20,000 euros. “So I informed them that I was going to blow up the whole car because apparently there was no guarantee or anything,” he reiterated before carrying out his threat.
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In videos recorded and shared on Twitter, we see that the car was loaded with explosives on snow-covered terrain in Finland. Slow-motion sequences break down the scene frame by frame until the high-end vehicle explodes, reduced to ashes.
#Finland ?? – ?? The owner of a #You’re here detonates his car and cremates an effigy of Elon Musk to protest the € 19,000 cost of replacing the battery. Explosion of a Tesla S Model 2013 with 30kg of dynamite ?
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