On December 20, according to the China Youth Network, a car owner in Finland was dissatisfied with the excessive cost of battery replacement, and in a rage, he blew up his Tesla car and shared the whole process through the network live broadcast.
It is reported that the bombed Model S was produced in 2012, because the battery failure needs to be repaired, but because it has been out of the 8-year warranty period, the owner was told that he needs to pay 20,000 euros (about 140,000 yuan) to replace the battery as a whole, which may be higher than the residual value of the vehicle.
After learning the price of the replacement battery, the owner lost confidence in Musk's company, believing there was no need for repairs.
So he prepared 30 kilograms of explosives and put a dummy built in Musk's shape in the car, trying to blow up his Tesla Model S. He also contacted video site bloggers to broadcast and record videos of blowing up Tesla.
"Three, two, one", as the countdown ended, the explosive rod installed on the side of the Tesla was detonated, and the fire was instantaneous, and the fragments of the vehicle hit the stone wall behind the car as planned. After the blast, staff and the owner of the car collected debris and piled it up.
The webcast shows the explosion process from multiple angles, with slow motion showing more detail. In just a few hours, it received more than 200,000 views. The owner's move is also considered to be to increase traffic revenue by "blowing up the car".
In fact, as Tesla's early Model S has aged, some vehicles have passed the battery warranty period.
Previously, American car owners have posted Tesla's battery maintenance costs, because Tesla has given a vehicle battery replacement plan, so the price has reached 22,500 US dollars (about 143,000 yuan).
Subsequently, through a third-party repair shop, the owner replaced 2 of the 16 battery modules with abnormal voltage separately at a cost of $5,000.
It is worth noting that compared with Tesla's overall battery replacement plan, the above-mentioned third-party repair shops have a certain risk of using the behavior of disassembling the battery and replacing it separately.
Although from the book, the $22,500 battery replacement cost is not low, it is almost the price of a compact fuel car. But there are arguments that it's acceptable to replace brand new batteries with a quarter to a fifth of the price of a car that cost more than $100,000. In addition, with the continuous decline in battery costs in recent years, the situation that "the price of the battery is equal to half the price of the vehicle" will no longer occur.
Domestically, the Tesla Model S first entered China in 2014, and the battery has not yet been released. According to Tesla's warranty rules for batteries, there are two kinds of battery warranty schemes for 8 years or 160,000 kilometers, 8 years or 192,000 kilometers for different models in China. When the battery capacity decays to less than 70%, you can apply to Tesla for after-sales service.