The cost of a new Tesla Model S is about $ 95,000, but the experience of one explosion is invaluable. A customer from the company’s Finland named Thomas Katainen bought his Tesla in 2013, and he ‘lived the dream’ for the first 930 miles. “It was a great car,” he said. “Then came the error codes.”
After a month in the store, mechanics said he would have to replace the “full battery compartment” at a price of 20,000 euros, or about $ 23,900. “So I told them I’m coming to pick up the Tesla,” he said in a video produced by Finnish YouTuber Pomyacatate “Now I’m going to blow up the whole car.”
No less than 2.8 million watched an eight-and-a-half-minute live broadcast of the reality stunt show, which received a phone call from Katainan to help blow up his Tesla outside of warranty. Crews set up the site of the blast at a former quarry in the snowy town of Jala, in southern Finland, where about 33 kilograms of dynamite were transported to blow up the car.