Tesla is suing an organization that makes a MagSafe-style connector designed to permit electrical automobile homeowners to rapidly escape from a charging station in the event that they really feel their security is threatened.
The automaker claims EVject’s escape connectors are “extremely unsafe and current a excessive threat of harm to individuals and/or property,” based on a lawsuit filed final week within the U.S. District Court docket for the Northern District of California.
Tesla is looking on the court docket to dam EVject’s claims that the product is secure, ban the import of the adapter in america, and require the corporate to pay at least $75,000 in damages.
Tesla stated within the submitting that it has examined a North American Charging Commonplace (NACS) model of the EVject accent in a high-current simulation utilizing the corporate’s Supercharger cable and automobile EV port. Tesla discovered that EVject merchandise can attain temperatures as excessive as 100 levels Celsius (the boiling level of water) when charging at 420 amps DC quick.
Tesla additionally famous that the corporate acknowledged that the adapter could get scorching when charging the Cybertruck. EVject’s web site promotes the product by portray a horrific state of affairs: EV homeowners are attacked whereas charging and can’t drive safely with out getting out of the automobile and unplugging.
EVject advertises the adapter as “absolutely appropriate” with NACS automobiles and lists the names of many Tesla fashions. Tesla, which operates the world’s largest electrical automobile charging community, believes the Escape Connector might additionally put its charging cables liable to injury. EVject claims that the outer a part of the breakaway adapter will shield the charging station plug when disconnected.
