Oslo Police District Certain On X, formerly Twitter, there were two people in the car and were saved by the floating sauna.
The Tesla driver told Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang that he thought the car was stationary when he pressed the accelerator, shooting the car from the dock into the dock. Wire service photos showed a crane later pulling the intact car out of the water.
“One of the guests came running and informed me that a car had fallen into the water. Then I ran as fast as I could towards the people who got out of the car,” she added, adding that two French sauna guests and Nordahl helped with the Rescue operation.
Both saunas and Teslas are very popular in Norway. Reuters reported that Tesla cars were the best-selling car in the Scandinavian country for the third year in a row, and that more than 80 percent of new cars sold in 2023 were electric. The country has for years subsidized the purchase of electric vehicles as it attempts to become the first country in the world to halt sales of gas-powered cars.
Tesla is facing unions across the Nordic countries, after refusing to sign a collective bargaining agreement with its mechanics in Sweden. Norwegian port workers showed their support by refusing to unload Tesla shipments into the country.
Oslo sits at the top of the 60-mile-long Oslo Fjord, which connects the Norwegian capital to the North Sea. The water temperature in the fjord was 33.6 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday, barely above freezing. At this temperature, humans can generally survive for only 15 to 45 minutes, even with a flotation device, according to the University of Minnesota.
