Finnish Man Blows Up Tesla Car Instead of Replacing Battery

There are instances in life when it’s a must to selected between paying a boatload of cash or watching a really huge explosion. Well, not likely, however Finnish man Tuomas Katainen certain did. Katainen is a 2013 Tesla Model S proprietor who was instructed he must pay greater than $22,600 to exchange the battery on his automotive. For him, it apparently wasn’t value it, so he determined to team up with a YouTuber to explode his Model S with 66 kilos (30 kilograms) of dynamite as a substitute.

According to Katainen, his Model S ran “excellent” for the primary 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) after he purchased it, however then the error codes began to look. He despatched his automotive to a Tesla supplier’s restore store, the place it remained for a couple of month, and was instructed they couldn’t do something for his automotive. His solely choice could be to exchange all the battery, which might price greater than $22,600, and he must ask Tesla permission to hold out the restore.

To put this in perspective, $22,600 would go an extended approach to shopping for one other used 2013 Model S in Finland, which seem to promote for more than $42,900. But Katainen decides that’s not for him, proving that there’s certainly a skinny line between logic, rage, and madness.

“So I told them I’m coming to pick up the Tesla,” he stated within the video. “Now I’m going to explode the whole car away.”

To perform his grasp plan, Katainen enlisted the assistance of YouTuber Pommijätkät, which roughly interprets to “Bomb Dudes,” based on Google Translate. (Whether that’s an correct translation or not, it appears acceptable contemplating Pommijätkät likes to make issues explode).

While blowing up a automotive with dynamite could sound enjoyable, it’s not a simple job. Katainen and Pommijätkät arrange the operation in a quarry at Jaala, a small rural city in Southern Finland. The group needed to contemplate elements just like the explosive’s enormous strain wave and the path the blast would go in an effort to guarantee security.

In the fascinating video, which contains a dummy of Tesla CEO Elon Musk that’s dropped from a helicopter and ends with the very huge explosion of Katainen’s Model S, Pommijätkät asks Katainen what is healthier: a working Tesla or exploding the automotive with 66 kilos of dynamite?

“Sort of both,” he stated. “Maybe more explosion.”