Tesla Motors’ Devastating Design Problem

[Nihil]

46. Even if they have "five examples", that doesn't mean "five different owners"

I remember seeing the dreadful Top Gear "test" of the Tesla a few years
back which consisted of Jeremy "Meathead" Clarkson flooring the accelerator
while tear-arsing around a circuit until he'd completely crufted the battery.

He did that to two separate cars before completing the "road test" with many
sarcastic comments on the third.

It's quite possible that the above two were damaged beyond repair and so
become two of your five alleged examples.

Even if not, I bet that Clarkson hasn't been the only petrol-head "reviewer"
to mistreat their loaner vehicles ... which may or may not account for the
one that the blogger from the OP found out about.