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Entertaining Or Outright Lunacy? Tesla Model S Blown Up With Dynamite

This Finnish guy chose to blow up his 2013 Model S with explosives, here’s why

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A Tesla Model S gets blown up by these guys from icy Suomi up in icy Finland. They using 30 kg (66.14 lbs) of dynamite and an Elon Musk dummy in the passenger seat. Here’s why they did it.

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It was Go time and everyone was waiting in anticipation to see how things unfold

The era of YouTube & social media has significantly blurred the distinction between truth and viral videos. This video from the Finnish YouTube channel Pommijätkät, which translates literally to "Bomb Dudes" would have us believe that a dissatisfied Tesla Model S owner contacted them and asked them to blow up his electric car. 

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Meet Tuomas Katainen from the Suomi, up in icy Finland

Meet Tuomas Katainen. In the video, which by the way you can watch with English subtitles, the man says that his 2013 Tesla Model S recently developed a slew of issues, prompting him to have it taken to a Tesla service facility. Four weeks later, after inspecting the vehicle, Tesla notified him that it would require a new battery, which would cost $22500.

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With such a steep quote, Katainen chose not to fix the car and instead decided it would be more fun to blow it up, possibly in the hope that the advertising revenue produced by the film would enable him to buy a new car. Either that or perhaps he was so fed up with the whole thing that he set out to destroy it regardless. To ensure the Tesla’s demise, Katainen fastened close to 70 pounds of dynamite to the Model S’s exterior and placed a mannequin of Elon Musk in the driver’s seat. The vehicle was then parked beneath a small rocky cliff, and the rest is history.

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Or be it a dummy, it was Elon Musk of course. They chose to strap on this dummy onto the passenger seat

The entire explosion was filmed by high-definition cameras recording in slow motion, and although it’s seldom pleasant to witness a car needlessly wrecked like this, it’s intriguing to watch how rapidly the car was almost instantly engulfed in a ball of fire. The explosives used were more than adequate to fully destroy the automobile. The Tesla was completely decimated after this. Was this taking it a bit too far? You be the judge. The video has raked up over 1.3 million views on YouTube so far.

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And before you know it, the entire car was engulfed in flames

Now this Model S in question was obviously an early example and belonged to an era when people still had their doubts about EVs and Tesla’s were notorious for bad build their myriad of build quality issues. But, Tesla has vastly improved the quality of their cars since and has closed the gap to the legacy automakers. What remains to be seen is if they can hold on to that position. But in the end, the brand did succeed in helping sway the entire auto industry towards electrification.

You can watch these guys destroy this 2013 Model S with dynamite in the video below


Khris Bharath
Khris Bharath
Khris is a classic car aficionado and adores his Jags and Alfas, although he keeps tabs on everything from super exotics like an old EB 110 to the latest from Lucid. Formula One is very close to his heart, and he diligently makes time to tune in for the Grand Prix on Sundays. Khris also loves his road trips and he prefers stick shift over an Auto any day.  Read full bio
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