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> Tesla didn’t respond to the lawsuit and the 30 owners behind the case were automatically awarded 136,000 kroner (~$16,000 USD) each in compensation unless Tesla appeals to the case, which it has a few weeks to do.

So that's half a million dollars. One wonders if it was incompetence on Tesla's part, or calculated "well, it will cost that in lawyers fees to settle." Dunno. Leaving it unchallenged in court is a terrible look.

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Or they are straight up guilty and want to avoid any more publicity from skeletons which would turn up in discovery.

Guilty of what though? The interesting question is not ‘did they change charging speed’, it’s whether their motives were good & whether doing so is OK.

I imagine charging speed could influence battery life, likewise if done at charging stations be beneficial to everyone charging at same time?

Who knows. They could just have missed a letter from the court.

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