Finland Man Blows Up His Tesla After Claiming to Face $22,000 Replacement Battery Bill

A Tesla Model 3 electric vehicle is shown in this picture illustration taken in Moscow, on July 23, 2020. Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters

A man in Finland has blown up his Tesla vehicle with 66 pounds of dynamite in defiance over the cost of a new battery after he claimed to face a $22,000 repair bill.

Tuomas Katainen, who lives in Jaala village in south Finland’s Kymenlaakso, exploded his 2012 Tesla Model S at a former quarry in a video uploaded to YouTube.