Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Everything was fine until after the first 1500km the error lights came on … €20,000 to replace the battery … no warrantee or anything.
The former Tesla owner also went to the trouble of putting an Elon Musk doll in the car before detonating the bomb.
Assuming its not some kind of crazy fake stunt, I’m guessing this particular customer won’t be upgrading to the new model Tesla, unless maybe Elon Musk has the balls to fly to Finland to deliver the new Tesla in person.
Update (EW): More background (h/t Harri Luuppala) – MTV (Finnish).
Update 2 (EW): According to reports they removed the battery first before blowing it up. My guess is they didn’t want to spray toxic lithium all over the landscape, or maybe they wanted to sell it for scrap. So environmentally responsible pyromaniacs… 🙂
Update 3 (EW): Behind the scenes video (In English – h/t Observer).
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Not bad as videos go. But I still prefer a good Wind Turbine fire, blades flying off and smoking collapse of the tower video.
At lunchtime on the 27th, the video had already almost 4 Mio. views. If it doubles to 8 Mio., it’ll make a substantial contribution for a new car … not a Tesla for sure …
December 29th at about 3:30PM, PST, Views: 5,088,957.
Saw that on the news; haven’t had such a good laugh in a long, long time.
Merrily, we roll along, roll along, roll along! I’ll stick to bicycles, horses (and a curricle, thank you!) and carbon-based fuel-powered 4-wheeler vehicles for transportation.
If you go back to the original newspaper report you will find that
a) This tesla is over 8 years old – it was a 2012 model purchased originally in 2013.
b) The warranty for the batteries in Tesla expire after 8 years.
c) I am highly suspicious of the claim that a light came on after 1500 miles – does that mean that he only drove the Tesla for 1499 miles in the first 8 years of ownership?
d) It seems to me that any journalist who is actually a journalist might of asked this gentlement when HE bought the tesla because the story seems to to suggest he bought it used. IN which case he bought a lemon from someone who was dumping the vehicle before the battery warranty ran out.
If you want see how difficult and infuriating it can be to be a Tesla fan, go to YouTube and search Rich Rebuilds. All the guy wanted to do was repair his own Tesla – he’s a fan of them – and Tesla customer support acted like he was doing something criminal. Wouldn’t even sell him parts.
What this article doesn’t tell you was that the car was 10 years old and out of warranty. He should have known the batter was reaching the end of its life and planned accordingly.
Had a Swedish co-worker say that the Finns are the :”Rednecks of Scandinavia.”
Yup. 🤣
Rednecks are my favorite kind of people, they can repair anything, and only when desperate use original parts.
Don’t bother responding to Ingraham, he’s been banned for refusing to behave himself.
However he keeps finding ways to sneak back in.
If you disagree with him, he’ll just hurl insults at you.
He’s not banned. Something….different.
To replace just a piece of plastic on a Tesla can cost as much as an entire late-model used car that would run for more than ten years.
Steve Lehto (Yes, a Finnish name) covered this here:
https://youtu.be/4e4yzQ0ewEU
It’s customary to overdo the explosives. Here is the you-tube link to the State of Oregon getting rid of a whale carcass on the beach in the 1970’s.