[Ol' Dan Tucker]

In Finland, an unhappy Tesla owner decided to blow up his Model S after learning it would need a new expensive battery pack. In the video on YouTube with English subtitles, Tuomas Katainen explains his 2013 Model S was in the shop for more than a month for service. When he heard back from the shop, they told him they couldn’t repair his car, and the only option was to change the entire battery cell.

One of Lithium batteries' shortcomings is usage during extreme low temperatures, such as those found in Finland.

Useful life is severely impacted when charging at temperatures below freezing.

What's missing from this article is how well or poorly Katainen treated his batteries.

[brianl703]

The Chevy Volt (plug-in hybrid) has a battery heater for it’s lithium-ion batteries. I would think a Tesla would have a battery heater too...