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

Tesla suing a institution that makes a MagSafe-style connector designed to fto EV owners marque a speedy flight from a charging stall if they consciousness their information is threatened.

The automaker alleges that the Escape Connector by institution EVject is “highly unsafe and poses a precocious hazard of wounded to idiosyncratic and/or property,” according to the suit filed successful the US District Court for the Northern District of California past week.

Tesla is calling connected the tribunal to artifact EVject from calling the merchandise safe, prohibition the import of the adapter successful the US, and marque the institution wage nary little than $75,000 successful damages.

In the filing, Tesla says it has tested the North American Charging Standard (NACS) mentation of the EVject accessory successful a high-current simulation with the company’s Supercharger cablegram and a conveyance EV port. Tesla recovered the EVject merchandise got arsenic blistery arsenic 100 degrees Celsius (the boiling constituent of water) portion DC accelerated charging astatine 420 amps.

Tesla besides points retired that the institution has admitted that the adapter whitethorn get blistery erstwhile charging a Cybertruck. EVject’s website markets the merchandise by coating a fearful scenario: EV owners attacked portion charging, and they can’t thrust distant to information without getting retired the car and unplugging.

EVject advertises the adapter is “fully compatible” with NACS vehicles, and lists galore Tesla models by name. Tesla, which runs the largest electrical conveyance charging web successful the world, argues that the Escape Connector could besides enactment its charging cables astatine hazard for damage. EVject advertises that the outer portion of the breakaway adapter volition support the presumption plug erstwhile disconnected.