Meet Rich Benoi, founder of the Rich Rebuilds YouTube channel where he shows off his incredibly talented entrepreneur who seems to be getting a run for money for Elon Musk.
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Elon Musk is known to completely disregard people who hang out with his cars but Rich Rebuilds on Youtube made an online career tinkering with Tesla parts and of course rebuilding one with scrap parts! Rich also does not have an engineering degree or training.
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Basically he built a completely new Tesla using scraps from other Tesla vehicles he bought.
Rich Rebuilds ’latest work that had everyone’s mind exploding is Tesla’s redesign. He bought Tesla for $ 15,000 (INR 10,91,617). The same was caught by the Telsa drowning and literally had to clean the dead fish and the batteries that suffered salt water damage.
It sold all 12 battery models (out of 16 that survived the drowning) for $ 900 each ($ 10,800 in total), a motor for $ 3000, and interiors and leather parts for $ 1200. As the total amount amounted to $ 15,000, he had recovered his investment and was now left with the shell of a car which he received for free.
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“You have a broken car and a working car. So put them together, ”he says in the YouTube video shared with LivingBobby who was looking for the cheapest Tesla in the world. Rich set up all the wiring, got extra parts he needed like sets and supplies from Mercedes and Range Rovers.
In his latest build, Rich had to salvage two Tesla S models, one for which his electric motors were flooded and one for recycling structural parts for the car that the engine would receive. His latest update video shows how successful he and his group of engine hire and transmission hands were in front of the Model S.