The one guy who has more to fear from Tesla than anyone else says he's not afraid at all

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October 17, 2018 6:56 PM

Tesla has said only Tesla can fix a Tesla, but Rich Benoit does it anyway. He even publishes his work on YouTube, and says he's not scared of the company and its lawyers. We interviewed him for Business Insider's podcast, Household Name.

Tesla has mandated that it alone can fix its cars, but one Massachusetts man doesn't care about that.
He buys salvaged Teslas and fixes them on his YouTube show,
Business Insider interviewed him about why he's not afraid of the company going after him for our podcast '

Only Tesla can fix a broken Tesla. But Rich Benoit does not care about that.

From his home in Massachusetts he fixes any Tesla "donor car" he can buy and switches bad parts for good ones. He does this even if the car has been flooded with water, even if it's mangled from an accident, even if it "

Benoit says he loves and admires Tesla, and for right now the two sides are at a stalemate. Benoit is on his own, and inside Tesla there is a sense that what helps more than it helps — for now.

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