Tesla sues maker of ‘extremely unsafe’ breakaway EV charging adapters

Tesla suing an organization that makes a MagSafe-style connector designed to let EV house owners make a fast escape from a charging stall in the event that they really feel their security is threatened.

The automaker alleges that the Escape Connector by firm EVject is “extremely unsafe and poses a excessive threat of harm to individual and/or property,” in keeping with the lawsuit filed within the US District Court docket for the Northern District of California final week.

Tesla is looking on the court docket to dam EVject from calling the product protected, ban the import of the adapter within the US, and make the corporate pay at least $75,000 in damages.

Within the submitting, Tesla says it has examined the North American Charging Normal (NACS) model of the EVject accent in a high-current simulation with the corporate’s Supercharger cable and a automobile EV port. Tesla discovered the EVject product acquired as scorching as 100 levels Celsius (the boiling level of water) whereas DC fast-charging at 420 amps.

Tesla additionally factors out that the corporate has admitted that the adapter could get scorching when charging a Cybertruck. EVject’s web site markets the product by portray a fearful state of affairs: EV house owners attacked whereas charging, and so they can’t drive away to security with out getting out the automobile and unplugging.

EVject advertises the adapter as “totally appropriate” with NACS autos and lists many Tesla fashions by title. Tesla, which runs the biggest electrical automobile charging community on the planet, argues that the Escape Connector may additionally put its charging cables in danger for injury. EVject advertises that the outer a part of the breakaway adapter will defend the station plug when disconnected.