A Tesla owner blew up his Model S with 66 pounds of explosives

A 2013 Tesla Model S faces $22,000 in repairs due to a battery failure.

He worked with several YouTube bloggers to tie 66 pounds of explosives to a car and detonate it.

For the first 900 miles, Thomas Catenin's 2013 Tesla Model S, he said, worked well. Later, a leak and a miscode forced him to call a trailer to fix it.

About a month later, the store told him he needed to replace the battery in question, which cost about $22,000. In addition to the high cost, the work also requires authorization from Tesla, which is clearly less interested in the work it has done for the car before.

Katainen decided to do something different instead of spending half the cost of the new Tesla to fix the old Tesla. He contacted some like-minded people.

After removing lithium-ion batteries, motors and other expensive parts, crews dragged the chassis to an old quarry on the outskirts of a remote village about two hours' drive from Helsinki, Finland. Blasting experts strapped 66 pounds of high explosives to cars and surrounded the area with slow-motion cameras.

Just as they were getting ready, a helicopter flew over and threw a mannequin with the face of Tesla CEO Elon Musk in the driver's seat of the doomed sedan.

The crowd retreated to a bulletproof trench, where Katainen was honored to press the button and take his previous car to the Valhalla Temple.

In the video, an explosive can be seen speeding along the detonation line, detonating a series of detonators, breaking the windshield and loosening several body panels.

After a brief pause, 14 hot dog-shaped explosives erupted into a dizzying fireball, and a huge shock wave spread from the car.

Video of a drone flying through shrapnel and smoke showed gray and black stains where the car had been.

The Model S's standard warranty is 8 years or 150,000 miles, but the warranty period may expire if the battery is opened or repaired by someone not authorized by Tesla. The warranty does not cover "damage caused by deliberate acts," such as blowing up a car for a YouTube video.

The exploding video has been viewed a total of 5 million times, but unfortunately, for "unknown reasons", it is now inaccessible.