General Man blows up his Tesla rather than paying $22K to repair it

[The Helper]

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Why not right?

 

[Ghan]

I heard about this. I think the issue was around the battery losing charge. Tesla has plans to recycle batteries but right now their problem is that they simply don't have enough batteries to recycle. They can't really start the program until there are more older EVs around. I think this is an early adopter problem that will be solved eventually.

 

[The Helper]

I heard about this. I think the issue was around the battery losing charge. Tesla has plans to recycle batteries but right now their problem is that they simply don't have enough batteries to recycle. They can't really start the program until there are more older EVs around. I think this is an early adopter problem that will be solved eventually.

 

[jonas]

I think this is an early adopter problem that will be solved eventually.

Unless those guys all blow up their teslas.
The other issue is that it's a matter of rate of growth; as long as Tesla is producing more and more cars, there might be more cars that need replacement batteries than there are cars that can donate old batteries.