TREE NEWS update: Berteli chairman Yuan Yongbin said on October 9 that a brake pedal could not be snapped by an ordinary driver, arguing the tester applied lateral force and the pedal was pried off in an abuse condition. He said the national standard requires the pedal to withstand 200 kg for five seconds under straight-on pressure, not sideways force. Berteli also denied supplying parts for the Zunjie vehicle.
Berteli Chairman Says Zunjie Brake Pedal Was Broken by Sideways Force, Firm Denies Supplying Parts
The dispute now hinges on test methodology rather than a plain defect claim, with Berteli arguing the failure occurred outside the straight-on loading the standard contemplates. That framing matters because it shifts scrutiny onto how independent testers replicate real-world abuse, and onto supply-chain attribution, which Berteli denies. Whether the standard's lateral-force gap becomes the central question, and whether parts provenance is independently established, are the threads worth watching.
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