25 May 2021, 06:05 am Tesla is currently accused of degrading the speed and battery capacity of its electric vehicles. Because of this, the court in Norway now wants the giant EV manufacturer to pay around $16,000 to thousands of its consumers. (Photo : Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) The inside of a Tesla vehicle is viewed as it sits parked in a new Tesla showroom and service center in Red Hook, Brooklyn on July 5, 2016 in New York City. The electric car company and its CEO and founder Elon Musk have come under increasing scrutiny following a crash of one of its electric cars while using the controversial autopilot service. Joshua Brown crashed and died in Florida on May 7 in a Tesla car that was operating on autopilot, which means that Brown's hands were not on the steering wheel.