New safety rules could force Tesla to rethink its sleek, flush door handles as regulators raise concerns about accessibility during power loss or crash events. Regulators are scrutinizing Tesla’s ...

Striped crescent-moon pulls. Zigzag timber handles. Brass that patinates elegantly with time. These designers treat hardware as a deliberate design feature, never an afterthought. Spring light has a ...

The families of Krysta Tsukahara, 19, and Jack Nelson, 20, have each filed separate lawsuits against Tesla, over a deadly 2024 crash in Piedmont involving a Cybertruck. Attorneys for both families say ...

Specifically, the emergency door handles are hidden and hard to find when in a panic. But Tesla isn't the only manufacturer with issues related to emergency releases; a report says rival EV-maker ...

The parents of two college students who died in a Cybertruck crash last fall are suing Tesla, alleging the truck’s door design trapped the victims inside. Separate lawsuits filed Thursday by the ...

Tesla's design chief says the company is planning to redesign interior door handles on its vehicles to combine powered and manual releases. However, the designer, Franz von Holzhausen, stopped short ...

Tesla is apparently rethinking one of its door handle designs as US regulators ramp up scrutiny. On a Bloomberg podcast this week, Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen revealed the company plans to ...

Tesla is looking into redesigning the way to open its car doors in an emergency following several accidents where passengers were reportedly trapped in burning vehicles because rescuers could not ...

Tesla is “working on” redesigning its door handles so they are less likely to trap people inside their cars, chief designer Franz von Holzhausen told Bloomberg News on Wednesday. The news comes just ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into reports that faulty electronic door handles on 2021 Tesla Model Y SUVs prevented owners from entering and exiting the vehicles, ...