Owner Blows Up Tesla Electric Car With 30 Kg of Dynamite After Seeing Repair Bill

Tesla Model S Electric Car Blown Up by Its Owner. He Gave His Reasons for His Decision, Filmed It, Uploaded It to YouTube, and Then Cleared the Site

There are different ways to channel anger, and while any method that includes violence is never the best way, there are people who do things a little bolder. This seems to be the case of a Finn named Tuomas Katainen, who bought a Tesla Model S in 2013 and, after using it for about 1,500 kilometers, began to suffer from vehicle malfunctions, which were noted with alerts and messages on the onboard screen.

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According to reports of this curious news, the problem arose when he took his car to an official Tesla agent, left it for almost a month to review the problems it presented, and received the response that the battery had to be replaced and that, since the car was no longer under warranty, he would have to shell out over 20,000 euros to do so, equivalent to about R$ 127,000.

Watch the Video Below and Check Out the Tesla Electric Car Being Blown Up by Its Owner

Mr. Tuomas Katainen, with a lot of anger and imagination involved, decided instead of fixing it, to take the car with a truck and transport it without the battery to express his indignation with the situation, making it fly through the air with 30 kg of dynamite.

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To do this, he contacted a team of YouTubers from the channel Pommijätkät and agreed to hold a great event that would generate many views for the video uploaded to the channel and perhaps even generate more revenue for the Tesla owner. And they succeeded. In a week since it was published, the video already has almost 4 million views.

The show, with almost cinematic characteristics, was held in a quarry in southern Finland. This location was chosen because the natural walls of the site where the car would explode would be a containment for the shock wave. Being in the middle of winter, snow was also present at the site.

Yes, they had several cameras of different quality to record the moment from various angles, including a camera on a crane and a drone. The cameras and people were protected by trenches built to protect them. And the car was prepared by specialists in controlled explosions, with 30 kilograms of dynamite placed in different locations on the car to create a spectacular visual effect.

The Tesla electric car disintegrated into thousands of fragments of different sizes, although some parts, like one of the wheels with its suspension, were left intact in a single piece. Without the batteries, the explosion did not cause spills of toxic substances, and once the event was over, the team was responsible for completely cleaning the site and leaving it in the same condition as before the explosion.

Elon Musk and Tesla will likely get the message. They, who are so skilled with direct marketing, could surprise everyone with a response in the coming days. The publicity isn’t good, of course, but it doesn’t cause major damage because it’s an electric car, about which there are some doubts about its safety in cases of fire in an accident. This was a provoked explosion, and it would have been the same in a car with an internal combustion engine. In any case, what will have to be reviewed is the after-sales service, at least in Finland.

Tesla Sedan Electric Car Worth R$ 650,000 Explodes in Flames After 3 Days of Use, Trapping Owner After Electronic Doors Fail

A Tesla Model S Plaid EV caught fire on June 29, 2021, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, while the owner was driving, three days after the top-of-the-line car worth $129,900 (around R$ 650,000) was delivered following its launch in June, an attorney for the driver told Reuters.

The driver, identified as an “executive businessman,” initially could not get out of the car because its electronic door system failed, leading the driver to “use force to push it open,” said Mark Geragos from Geragos & Geragos last Friday (07/02/2021). Watch the video below of the burning car.

The Company Did Not Make an Immediate Comment When Contacted by Reuters

The CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, highlighted the performance version of his Model S sedan as being “faster than any Porsche, safer than any Volvo” at a launch event at the automaker’s factory in Fremont, California, last month. In early April, he said that the new Model S sedan and Model X SUV had a new battery.

“It took a little development to ensure that the new S/X battery is safe,” Musk said in a conference call, addressing production delays. “There were more challenges than expected in developing the new version.”

The agency is investigating alleged defects that may cause fires in Tesla sedans and SUVs, including the older Model S and Model X vehicles, an investigation that was opened in 2019.

The fire resembled previous Tesla fires, where there was an electrical or smoky smell followed by a bang, and the owner was trapped in the vehicle after its electronics failed. The Washington Post reported a similar series of events in Frisco, Texas, in November.