Guy blows up Tesla

Guy in Finland explodes his 2013 Tesla Model S. Media gleefully reports and omits any journalism (background). So this guy in Finland blows up his 2013 Model S -- and the media loves to report it. (The left hates Elon Musk for standing up to them, and thus loves to bag on Telsa). But instead of journalism and explaining the what/why, they just took glee in the environmental violence. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2021-12-26

The Finish guy had a car for 8 years and needed a battery replacement that would cost $22K, so he blew it up as a protest against the high cost of a factory battery replacement. OK. I don't care, a little drama queen, but mostly a publicity stunt.

What about the rest of the story that no journalist decided to add to the story?

1. A battery repair in the U.S. can be had for ≈$6-8K... and putting in a used battery is similar in price. So the full replacement was not his only option.

1. We never got details on how many miles the cars had on it, but if it was only driven average for Finland, it would have about about 160K/miles. I suspect it was more as to make the residual value lower.

1. Finland (like all good big government leaning Scandavian countries) has a retarded anti-environmental tax structure -- the older a car gets, the higher its taxes are. And they allow unsecured loans up to $50K. And the culture is very collectivist (follows everyone else). The results are the Fins have a cultural bias towards new cars and against used cars.

1. Because of that tax and collectivism culture, cars depreciate faster than in free markets. So this car was likely worth less than $30K. And t.

1. That tax also encourages people to pollute more: dispose/replace otherwise usable cars... and when you factor in that most of the energy costs in a car are in initial production and recycling of materials, this is horrid environmental policy). Of course the left only likes to count the pollution of usage, and not the pollution of production, so this seems like a win to them. But if you can do basic big picture economics, you know better.

==Conclusion=-

So the economics for him was that it was a $30K car used with a $22K repair bill.

• He seems to have sold most of the car for parts, making more money than he would have to repair the car and reselling it working (or selling it as scrap).
• He could have found a used battery pack... but for cultural reasons, he decided to do a big display instead.

I have no problem with any of that. I do have a problem with the media that did no justice to the economics of why this happened -- and that's failures of government policies.

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🔗 Links

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG9Izqp6WWU
• https://observatorial.com/news/technology-and-science/32515/a-man-from-finland-with-a-tesla-model-s-blew-up-his-vehicle-with-dynamite-because-of-the-cost-of-replacing-the-battery-of-over-22000/
• https://nypost.com/2021/12/24/tesla-explodes-after-mechanics-charge-man-23k-for-new-battery/

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