The owner of a Tesla car who needed to replace his car’s battery preferred to blow it up rather than pay a hefty sum to fix it.
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Tuomas Katainen refused to pay the more than $ 22,000 needed to change the battery in his car. The Finn bought his used 2013 Model S barely a year and a half ago.
The man therefore called in “Bomb Dudes”, Youtubers known to blow things up, CNN reported.
And the Youtuber trio didn’t do things by halves, even creating a model resembling Elon Musk, famous founder of Tesla.
Tuomas Katainen himself had the privilege of detonating the 66 pounds of dynamite that reduced his car to smithereens.
Video of the explosion has gone viral on the internet in the past few days, as netizens asked Elon Musk if he could gift the man a new car.
Tesla did not respond to CNN interview requests.
The standard vehicle warranty is eight years or 150,000 kilometers. It can however be revoked if the battery has been opened or repaired by a person not authorized by the manufacturer.