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A Finnish car owner Tuoma Katainen angrily blew up his Tesla car because it was too expensive to change batteries for Tesla, which has also been widely reprinted in the domestic media. So in the end, where did this Tesla break down and need to use explosives? Let's take a look at it.

The owner of this car is the 2013 Tesla Model S, a newly purchased used car, but 1500 kilometers later, Tesla's screen popped up with an error code, so he went to the dealer's maintenance station to repair it. However, after a month of repair, the dealer told the car owner that there was no choice but to replace the battery, which would cost at least 20,000 euros. While the auto industry focused on searching a local second-hand Tesla's Model S model of the same year, the price is generally about 35-40, 000 euros, while the new Model S in the European market is about 100000 euros.

The owner said, "I got a call and the maintenance station said there was nothing they could do. The only option was to replace the entire battery at a cost of at least 20,000 euros." So after I got the car back, I decided to blow up the whole car because there was no safety guarantee for the car. "

For this unfortunate car owner, replacing a battery is equivalent to paying half of the car price. Of course, it is not cost-effective to fix it. Therefore, I thought of the way to dispose of Tesla with explosives, which was obviously legal locally, so this decision was made, and it was obviously a serious crime in other areas. Perhaps to vent his dissatisfaction, he contacted a video blogger whose daily job is to shoot all kinds of explosive videos to attract netizens' attention in order to get traffic.

However, it is not a professional thing to detonate the vehicle safely. The staff of the video blogger installed explosive sticks on the side of the car to guide the explosion in one direction and to ensure that the debris hit the stone wall behind the car, which looks like a fixed-point blasting of an old factory building in China, and the car owner obviously knows that professional things have to be done by professionals. When they planted the explosives, perhaps to create more influence, the video also arranged for a helicopter to drop a helmet-clad portrait of Tesla CEO Musk from the plane.

This professional and sensational live broadcast attracted 223000 online viewers on that day, but today, the number of broadcasts on the relevant platform has reached 900000, which may be a good income for car owners. I don't know if this will recover the car owner's loss.

When the task was completed, the owner Tuoma Katainen said, "there is nothing left. I have never liked Tesla so much!" Maybe I was the first person in the world to detonate Tesla. I made history. " This eye-catching move certainly attracted a lot of interaction from netizens, with one netizen responding at the bottom: "Yes, you are the first car owner who artificially let it blow up." Obviously, these netizens are taking the opportunity to complain about some social news about electric cars in the past. It seems that no matter where the country is,

Similar things happen from time to time.

But going back to the incident itself, maybe there will not be too many accidents when the car owner has been using fuel vehicles for 10 years and there are some fatal failures around 200000 kilometers. But for electric cars, it may be necessary to accept this fact. It requires different criteria, such as battery life and possible battery failure after long-term use, which may be a potential expense for car owners. It is often reported on the Internet that a 100000-odd electric car needs to replace its battery after using it for two or three years. When asked for a price in a 4S store, the maintenance cost actually reached 60% of the purchase price.

At present, electric vehicles are just beginning to develop, and different manufacturers have different ways to deal with this problem. A car owner of Biatang, who had been driving for three years, suddenly felt that there was a problem with the battery life, so he planned to replace it with a new battery. BYD replaced the battery for him free of charge, and the car owner only paid the man-hour fee and testing fee. This made the car owner very happy and posted a photo of the consumption bill online with the caption: "after driving for almost three years, it saves 59800 to change the battery, and BYD has proved to be very reliable." In fact, the price is still so high, but it is borne by the manufacturer.

Two years ago, Li Bin, CEO of Xilai Automobile, said, "I don't understand why anyone still buys an oil car. Do you want to smell the oil?" It has attracted a lot of traditional car owners to fight back, and the battery is one of the arguments of the counterparty. Xilai's solution to the battery is to reduce the car price by 70,000 yuan and pay a monthly battery rental fee of 980 yuan. Take its newly launched ET5 as an example, the starting price of a naked car is 328000 yuan, but if you use the BaaS battery rental scheme to buy a car, the initial purchase price is 258000 yuan, and the annual battery cost is 11760 yuan.

The development of new energy is a trend, which mainly includes the innovation of manufacturers' technology and the speed of improvement after the emergence of problems, while the improvement of public awareness of electric vehicles is less important.

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