Automobile giant Tesla leads the EV sector with innovations and mind-blowing futuristic features. But this was not enough to stop an unhappy Tesla customer from blowing up his car using 30-kilogram dynamite after being told that repairing the damages would cost a staggering 20000 euro, which comes around Rs 17 lakh.
Jaala, an ice-covered village in south Finland’s Kymenlaakso region with just a few thousand people, witnessed this incident as the 2013 Tesla Model S owner set his car up for an explosion.
The crew of a YouTube channel – Pommijatkat – shot the entire episode that premiered on Sunday.
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The owner, Tuomas Katainen, wanted to draw the world’s attention and express his disappointment towards Tesla’s poor after-sale services.
Tuomas said he faced problems like multiple error codes in the instrument cluster, after which a tow car had arrived to take the car to a Tesla service centre. However, a month later, Tuomas was told that the issues can’t be fixed without repairing the whole battery pack that would cost him 20000 euros.
The warranty of the car expired as it was already eight years old.
All this prompted Tuomas to blow the car up.
The video on YouTube starts with a shot of the snow-covered countryside of Finland. It then features Tuomas talking to a team with his white coloured Tesla car parked behind him.
“When I bought that Tesla, the first 1,500 km were nice. It was an excellent car. Then the error codes hit. So I ordered the tow truck to take my car to the service station. For almost a month the car was at the dealer’s workshop and I finally got a call that they cannot do anything for my car. The only option is to change the whole battery cell,” said Toumas.
“It would cost me at least 20,000 Euros. So, I told them I am coming to pick up my car. And now I am going to explode the whole car away because apparently there was no guarantee or anything,” he added.
The team also placed an effigy of the brand’s CEO Elon Musk inside the car, with a helmet strapped to the car’s front seat.
