[ Now this guy was seriously angry. -- SD ]

From: https://tiny.cc/3uzmuz

Video mentioned in story in p.2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_9aVzf5fC4

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Finland Man Blows Up His Tesla After Claiming to Face $22,000 Replacement
Battery Bill

By Katabella Roberts
December 24, 2021
Updated: December 28, 2021

A man in Finland has blown up his Tesla vehicle with 66 pounds of dynamite
in defiance over the cost of a new battery after he claimed to face a
$22,000 repair bill.

Tuomas Katainen, who lives in Jaala village in south Finland's
Kymenlaakso, exploded his 2012 Tesla Model S at a former quarry in a video
uploaded to YouTube.

The Tesla S model 2012 cost around $57,400 to $77,400 when it was
released.

Tesla's warranty covers battery replacements if the capacity drops below
70 percent within 150,000 miles or eight years of purchase, leaving some
owners of the older models facing large repair bills.

The video, which is over eight minutes long, shows Katainen and a group of
people loading the car with the dynamite before notably placing a dummy
with Elon Musk's face on it inside the car.

The vehicle then explodes into pieces amid a rather serene and picturesque
scene of snowy mountains.

"When I bought that Tesla, the first 1,500 km were nice. It was an
excellent car. Then error codes hit. So I ordered the tow truck to take my
car in for a service. So the car was at a Tesla dealer's workshop for
about a month. Finally, I got a call that they cannot do anything for my
car and that the only option is to change the whole battery cell,"
Katainen said in the YouTube video.

He didn't reveal the total miles the car has been driven or show proof of
the would-be repair bill in the video.

The Epoch Times reached out to him for comment.

"The cost would be at least 20,000 EUR ($22,000), and permission to
operation has to ask Tesla. So I told them that I'm coming to pick up the
Tesla. Now I'm going to explode the whole car because apparently there is
no guarantee or anything," he added.

Tesla didn't respond to a request for comment.

Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk-who has said he will pay more than
$11 billion in taxes this year-is the world's richest person with an
estimated net worth of $244.2 billion, according to Forbes' real-time
billionaire's list.

Battery issues are not the only problems Tesla vehicle users have
encountered, as safety issues have also been raised over a number of the
vehicle's features, including its autonomous driving features.

In August, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
opened a formal probe into Tesla's Autopilot and full self-driving (FSD)
systems following nearly a dozen crashes with parked emergency vehicles
that left one person dead and injured 17 others.

According to an NHTSA document issued on Aug. 13 (pdf), the agency's
Office of Defects Investigation was probing 765,000 Tesla vehicles-Models
Y, X, S, and 3, from model years 2014 to 2021. On Aug. 31, that
investigation was expanded to cover a 12th incident (pdf).

In October, Tesla withdrew its latest version of its FSD beta software
just one day after it was released after noting "some issues," and said it
would roll the software back to version 10.2 for now.

While Musk didn't specifically mention what the issues were, he noted that
Tesla's internal quality assurance had found problems with some left turns
at traffic lights.

"Regression in some left turns at traffic lights found by internal QA in
10.3. Fix in work, probably releasing tomorrow," Musk said at the time.

Earlier this month, the NHTSA said it was in discussions with Tesla
to replace cameras in some U.S.-made vehicles after it was made aware of
an issue related to faulty Autopilot cameras.

The Tesla CEO said this month that no other CEO on the planet cares as
much about safety as he does and insisted that he had not misled Tesla's
customers about the company's self-driving technology,
including Autopilot and FSD, and any potential risks to their safety.

Musk has sold nearly $14 billion worth of Tesla stock since November and
the electric vehicle maker is worth about $1 trillion.
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Re: Now this is pissed off
By: Sean Dennis to All on Tue Dec 28 2021 01:39 pm

A man in Finland has blown up his Tesla vehicle with 66 pounds of dynamite
in defiance over the cost of a new battery after he claimed to face a
$22,000 repair bill.

Well, that was the problem with old Teslas since the begining. Maintenance costs were
going to suck.

I would not have blown the thing up if I had found I could not pay for the repairs.
I'd rather have sold it and cut my loses. I appreciate the defiance gesture though.

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Hello Arelor!

** On Tuesday 28.12.21 - 17:42, Arelor wrote to Sean Dennis:

I would not have blown the thing up if I had found I could
not pay for the repairs. I'd rather have sold it and cut my
loses. I appreciate the defiance gesture though.

But who would have bought it? The repair cost on that thing
would have been $22K.

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Re: Now this is pissed off
By: August Abolins to Arelor on Tue Dec 28 2021 07:54 pm

Hello Arelor!

** On Tuesday 28.12.21 - 17:42, Arelor wrote to Sean Dennis:

I would not have blown the thing up if I had found I could
not pay for the repairs. I'd rather have sold it and cut my
loses. I appreciate the defiance gesture though.

But who would have bought it? The repair cost on that thing
would have been $22K.

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The local Chinesses and Gipsies here buy everything for scavenging parts.

You would nto get a good price, but you would get something.

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Hello Arelor!

** On Wednesday 29.12.21 - 09:22, Arelor wrote to August Abolins:

The local Chinesses and Gipsies here buy everything for scavenging parts.

You would nto get a good price, but you would get something.

Maybe he figured that he'd get a better payout from the
millions of YT views?

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Re: Now this is pissed off
By: August Abolins to Arelor on Wed Dec 29 2021 06:46 pm

Hello Arelor!

** On Wednesday 29.12.21 - 09:22, Arelor wrote to August Abolins:

The local Chinesses and Gipsies here buy everything for scavenging parts

You would nto get a good price, but you would get something.

Maybe he figured that he'd get a better payout from the
millions of YT views?

It is hard to make anything meaningful from Youtube Videos. Have you checked how many views this guy has? (I haven't).

Making money out of Internet videos requires you to keep working and working and working, enhancing your personal brand non stop, because the moment you stop, you stop getting viewers.

Also, everybody is doing it. It is very hard to stick out. This is why you see so many attempts at groundbreaking outrageous displays... people is trying to differentiate themselves from the other video makers, nothing else.

Now, if the guy takes advantage of the viedeo for something else and makes it, that is something else entirely.

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Hello Arelor!

** On Thursday 30.12.21 - 12:23, Arelor wrote to August Abolins:

Maybe he figured that he'd get a better payout from the
millions of YT views?

It is hard to make anything meaningful from Youtube Videos.
Have you checked how many views this guy has? (I haven't).

It seems that it depends on what video version you look at.
Apparently there are copies out there. One had 5.1M veiws. Two
more have 1.1M and 1.2M respectively. Doesn't a 1M views
translate to $10,000? The payout seems to depend on a variety
of factors, but one article mentioned "1 million views -
between $3,400 and $40,000"

So.. the fellow is probably well on his way to get a fine
return on blowing up his Tesla.

Making money out of Internet videos requires you to keep
working and working and working, enhancing your personal
brand non stop, because the moment you stop, you stop
getting viewers.

For some people, pushing out videos where they mostly gab is no
problem.


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Hello Sean Dennis!

** On Tuesday 28.12.21 - 13:39, Sean Dennis wrote to All:

=== Finland Man Blows Up His Tesla After Claiming to Face
$22,000 Replacement Battery Bill

The Tesla S model 2012 cost around $57,400 to $77,400
when it was released.

"The cost would be at least 20,000 EUR ($22,000), and
permission to operation has to ask Tesla. So I told
them that I'm coming to pick up the Tesla. Now I'm
going to explode the whole car because apparently there
is no guarantee or anything," he added.

Tesla didn't respond to a request for comment.

Too bad that Musk wouldn't respond. In a case like that, a
leader ought to step up and "make it right". Given that Musk
is so flippant with his riches, could he not surely make an
exception for the cost of repair?

Anyhow, based on the nummber of views that fellow is getting on
YouTube, blowing up the car might have been a good "investment"
for his used Telsa since he's now getting paid for blowing it
up.
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