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 ...

Proposed regulations in China would mean the end of flush handles on car doors, with precious little time to roll out the changes. Car door handles seem innocuous. Tesla’s electronic, retractable ones ...

Two Bay Area families are suing Tesla over the death of their 19-year-old daughter and 20-year-old son after a crash which left them and one other teenager dead, trapped inside the vehicle due to what ...

A wrongful death lawsuit alleges Tesla’s electronic door handle system trapped a 19-year-old inside a burning Cybertruck. A wrongful death lawsuit alleges Tesla’s electronic door handle system trapped ...

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 ...

Tesla’s flush door handles have trapped at least 140 passengers since 2018, with some incidents resulting in injuries or fatalities. Unlike mechanical car doors that typically fail open, Tesla’s sleek ...

China is preparing to reshape how carmakers design something as simple yet crucial as a door handle. A new draft regulation from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is now open ...

The Tesla Model Y's flush-mounted electronic door handles are under scrutiny after U.S. regulators started looking into more than 174,000 Model Y crossovers with door handles that could fail during ...

Tesla’s door handle design is notoriously terrible, unintuitive, and dangerous. Customers have been saying it for years. After multiple damning reports, the company might finally be doing something ...

Tesla recently announced that it is planning to redesign the door handles of its electric vehicles amid growing safety concerns that passengers could become trapped inside. The move was confirmed by ...