{"id":13656,"date":"2021-12-28T09:23:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T01:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/battery9999.com\/en\/?p=13656"},"modified":"2021-12-28T09:23:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T01:23:55","slug":"tesla-owner-blows-up-his-model-s-with-dynamite-over-22000-battery-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/battery9999.com\/en\/tesla-owner-blows-up-his-model-s-with-dynamite-over-22000-battery-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla owner blows up his Model S with dynamite over $22,000 battery replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Tesla Model S owner in Finland decided to blow up his electric car with dynamite after it needed a battery replacement, which Tesla said was going to cost $22,000.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s not a lot of information about how much an electric car, or especially Tesla vehicle, battery replacement costs.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a hard question to answer since the vast majority of Tesla battery replacements have been done under warranty.<\/p>\n

Early on, Tesla offered eight-year unlimited mileage powertrain warranties for Model S and Model X.<\/p>\n

With Model S production starting in 2012 and higher volumes not coming until 2014, only recently have those vehicles started to come off their powertrain warranty. We have seen quotes from Tesla for battery pack replacements between $20,000 and $30,000. That\u2019s a lot of money, but the good news is that Tesla\u2019s battery packs have been known to last a long time.<\/p>\n

I have\u00a0a Tesla Model X that had a battery pack last for more than 300,000 miles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, even if the problem is not necessarily battery degradation, the battery packs simply fail sometimes, and it\u2019s expensive to replace those early packs.<\/p>\n

We recently reported on a case where a Model S owner was told by Tesla that he needed a $22,500 battery replacement.<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t really an option since it\u2019s basically equivalent to the value of the vehicle.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the owner managed to\u00a0find a third-party repair shop the fix the battery pack<\/a>\u00a0for a fraction of the cost \u2013 though the fix is somewhat controversial in the Tesla repair community.<\/p>\n

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Now we learn of a similar case in Finland where Tuomas Katainen, a 2013 Tesla Model S owner, had a battery pack that was out of warranty fail, and Tesla asked for the equivalent of $22,000 USD for a battery pack replacement.<\/p>\n

Katainen didn\u2019t like the value proposition considering used 2013 Model S vehicles go for about 35,000 euros in Finland and he didn\u2019t have access to a third-party shop to fix the pack.<\/p>\n

What options does one have at that point? Quite a few actually: You can try to find a used battery pack, you can sell the car as non-functional and still get decent money for it, or you can sell it for parts.<\/p>\n

But Katainen decided to go a different way.<\/p>\n

He reached out to YouTuber\u00a0Pommij\u00e4tk\u00e4t<\/a>, a channel known for blowing things up, to strap 30 kg of dynamite to the electric vehicle and blow it up:<\/p>\n

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