Science & Tech · Gadgets & EVs · 9 hrs ago
Maextro V800 Brake Brackets Failed in Emergency-Stop Tests
The Maextro V800 is a luxury minivan sold in China, priced as high as $150,000.
In independent tests, the bracket supporting the brake pedal failed in three separate vehicles when drivers braked hard from 62 miles per hour.
The pedal itself did not break, but its bracket, which lets it pivot, failed.
The automaker said it knew of no such failures in vehicles delivered to customers.
It said it would improve the bracket’s design and offer owners a free upgrade.
The failure raises a safety concern because hard braking can be needed to avoid a crash, even in a luxury vehicle.
The company’s planned redesign and upgrade are the next steps described.
Three Maextro V800 minivans had brake-pedal brackets fail during emergency-stop tests, according to InsideEVs.
The tests simulated hard braking from 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour).
The brake pedal itself did not break; its supporting bracket failed.
Maextro said it knew of no such failures in cars delivered to customers, but would optimize the bracket and offer owners a free upgrade.
- Who
- Three Maextro V800 minivans were tested by automotive journalists. Maextro responded to the findings.
- What
- The brake-pedal brackets failed during emergency-stop tests.
- When
- Not stated
- Where
- Not stated
- Why
- The tests simulated emergency stops from 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour); the cause of the bracket failures was not independently established in the article.
Automotive journalists
Maextro
Safety concern
Automotive journalists
Journalists found bracket failures in three tested vehicles and said this kind of failure during a hard stop was unacceptable.
Maextro
Maextro said it knew of no brake-pedal bracket failures in cars delivered to customers.
Response
Automotive journalists
The tests raised concerns about the bracket design.
Maextro
Maextro said it would optimize the design and offer owners a free upgrade.
No direct quotes in the coverage so far.
Three V800 brake-pedal brackets failed when drivers simulated emergency stops from 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour).
Maextro said it knew of no similar failures in customer vehicles and would optimize the bracket and offer a free upgrade to owners.
- Vehicles tested
- Three Maextro V800 minivans
- Test speed
- 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour)
- Failed component
- Brake-pedal bracket, not the pedal itself
- Bracket material
- Polypropylene and 40% glass fiber
- Planned response
- Maextro said it would optimize the design and offer owners a free upgrade
Sources
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