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 ...

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 ...

There’s no denying that a car looks very high-tech and futuristic whenever it has concealed door handles. Even more so, when it pops out when you press the unlock button. It’s somehow a symbol of ...

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'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 Inc. is working on a redesign of its door handles, which have drawn scrutiny over safety incidents that trapped passengers inside their vehicles. Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla’s longtime design ...

Tesla has now confirmed that it will look into redesigning its door handles in order to improve safety features as the company was recently embroiled in a controversy concerning the dangers of its ...

Auto safety regulators in the United States (US) have launched a preliminary investigation against Tesla due to problems with the door handles of some Model Y vehicles reopening, according to foreign ...