Company reportedly set for series of legal cashes, relating to its Autopilot technology, SolarCity takeover, and alleged email scam
Lawyers at Tesla are set for a busy few months after the electric vehicle giant found itself facing a flurry of legal actions in recent days.
It emerged this week that the company is being sued in China by the family of a Chinese driver who was killed when his Tesla vehicle smashed into a truck at high speed on a Chinese motorway.
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The driver's family claim the car was using Tesla's Autopilot technology at the time of the crash, although Tesla dispute this and insist the crash was not due to a technology failure.
The lawsuit has prompted renewed concern about the carmaker's Autopilot technology, coming just a few months after a fatal crash in Florida when a Tesla Model S hit a truck on a highway.
The carmaker is also facing shareholder lawsuits alleging that board members breached their fiduciary duty by agreeing to a $2.6bn merger between Tesla and SolarCity. Tesla warned this week the lawsuits could delay the acquisition process, but insisted the claims are without merit.
In addition, Tesla is instigating legal action of its own in a bizarre case that alleges the chief financial officer of a firm that works for the oil industry attempted to acquire confidential financial information about the carmaker by impersonating its founder, Elon Musk.
In a lawsuit filed last week by Tesla in California, the carmaker says its chief financial officer Jason Wheeler received an email in August from 'elontesla@yahoo.com' requesting more information about financial data that had been released by the firm earlier that day.
Tesla claims the email in fact came from Todd Katz, who it said works for Quest Integrity Group, and says the message was an attempt to acquire "highly confidential" information about the firm.
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