Electric door actuators are hardly a new idea. They’ve become a common sight across the auto industry, yet they seem to draw most attention, and the sharpest criticism, when attached to a Tesla. Over ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. auto safety regulator investigating whether certain Tesla Inc. door handles are defective received additional complaints within days of initiating its probe from consumers who were unable to ...

Design-wise, flush exterior handles look sleek and help reduce aerodynamic drag slightly. At the same time, electronic handles have made their way inside cars, too, ranging from buttons to, again, ...

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) has had its share of problems this year. Sales in the United States have stumbled, largely due to CEO Elon Musk’s relationship with President Trump. Its U.S. market share has ...

The NHTSA has launched an investigation into the doors of Tesla's Model 3 EVs after a consumer petition alleged they may not be safe in an emergency Tesla's Model 3 sedan is the focus of the latest ...

U.S. safety regulators have launched a probe into some Tesla Model 3 cars over the vehicle's door handles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said in a December 23 online ...

Tesla has been hit with yet another lawsuit related to its electrically powered doors. Last week, the mother of a 20-year-old man who died following a collision in a 2021 Tesla Model Y filed a lawsuit ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] The U.S. auto safety regulator investigating whether certain Tesla Inc. door handles are defective received more complaints within days ...

Bloomberg report claims Tesla’s electronic door releases have led to at least 15 incidents wherein occupants were killed after being trapped in fires. Design-wise, flush exterior handles look sleek ...