Jean-Baptiste Dessort, who founded the information site and the YouTube channel “Le Billet Auto”, died on June 24, 2023 in an accident in Gironde. He was driving a Tesla Model S Plaid from the brand’s press fleet.
Videographer Jean-Baptiste Dessort died on June 24, 2023 in a car accident, Numerama learned from several sources. The firefighters would have intervened around 11:45 p.m. in the town of Val-de-Virvée (Gironde), reported several local correspondents in the French media such as France 3 and Actu.fr.
The 37-year-old was driving a Tesla Model S Plaid from the company’s press fleet. The gendarmerie states that he would have hit a tree after leaving the road. No additional information to date allows us to say more about the circumstances of the accident. The electric vehicle was found ablaze at the scene, the driver outside the car. Tesla did not wish to communicate on the subject.
Car manufacturers (thermal or electric) often make vehicles available so that journalists or content creators can test them for several hours — or days — in order to issue a complete critical opinion on the products.
A car enthusiast
Jean-Baptiste Dessort was a car enthusiast, whose YouTube channel is followed by nearly 60,000 subscribers. He published more than 800 videos there in ten years, including half a dozen on Tesla vehicles, which he knew well. In 2011, he also founded Billet Auto, a recognized information site on thermal and electric cars.
The world of automotive journalism is a small tight-knit environment, in which many experts rub shoulders on tests and trips. On Jean-Baptiste Dessort’s latest Instagram post from last week, messages of condolence have been multiplying since Monday, June 26. Numerama joins them in sharing its condolences and thoughts to his family and loved ones.
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