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Why a man blew his Tesla car up instead of paying repair bill. Video in blog.

By Austin Michael Dec 29, 2021 | 1:18 PM

A man in Finland wrapped sticks of dynamite around his Tesla and blew it up. And he did it because the thing costs too much too fix. The battery wasn’t working and it was going to cost more than $22,000 to fix it. He can pick a used version of the same car for $30,000. So, you can see how that could be frustrating.  So, he told them he was coming to get the car and he was going to “explode the whole car away”. He got a film crew and some explosive experts together. They towed the car out to what looks like the side of a mountain in a clearing near a forest. Then they blew it up.

The video shows a couple angles when it happens, but the super slow mo video it actually really interesting to watch. The way they set the explosives and charges off almost looks like a specialty light show when they play it in slow mo. You can see it at the 8:27 mark.