New Jersey journalist is shocked to see his crashed Tesla show up in UKRAINE after logging into navigation system and discovering new owner was playing Drake on his Spotify account
- CNBC government Jay Yarow tracked the automobile’s location on his Tesla cellular app
- He found it was round 125 miles from the war-torn metropolis of Kherson
- He’s certainly one of a number of Tesla homeowners who’ve discovered their junked automobiles in Ukraine
A journalist’s wrecked Tesla turned up in Ukraine – with its new owner playing Drake on his Spotify account.
CNBC government Jay Yarow was ready to observe the automobile’s location on his Tesla cellular app and found it was round 125 miles from the war-torn metropolis of Kherson.
‘Here’s an uncommon scenario. I had a Tesla, crashed it, it was totaled. And now it is… in Ukraine? And somebody there is listening to Drake on my, nonetheless logged in, Spotify account,’ Yarow tweeted on Thursday.
His Tesla is certainly one of a number of which earlier homeowners have traced to Ukraine after they have been totaled in the USA. It’s thought many wrecked automobiles are auctioned off by insurance coverage corporations and snapped up by consumers in the nation who restore them.
Others have additionally turned up in Belarus, which shares a border with Ukraine.
Wrecked Teslas can fetch upwards of $10,000 on public sale web sites, that are utilized by mechanics to discover automobiles they’ll restore for a revenue or salvage for elements.
The web sites are in style in some Eastern European international locations, together with Ukraine, the place makes like Tesla are more durable to purchase.
Yarow, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor for CNBC Digital, did not say when he crashed the automobile.
The map confirmed it shut to Kryvyi Rih, a metropolis in central Ukraine round 125 miles from Kherson. Kherson was occupied by Russian forces for round 9 months in 2022.
In May, a Reddit consumer stated their Tesla had additionally ended up in Ukraine after it was totaled in the US.
Another Reddit consumer posted in June 2022 about discovering their Tesla Model Y had ended up in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, round a yr after it was totaled 4,500 miles away in Toronto, Canada.
Car public sale websites like Copart checklist dozens of Teslas which both want in depth repairs or are completely ruined.
The automobiles’ wealth of expertise – together with their sensors and batteries – make them a lot more durable to restore than common gasoline automobiles, that means they’re extra possible to be written off by insurers if broken in an accident.
