A federal safety investigation into Tesla’s Model S electronic door handles has drawn fresh legal action, with parents alleging the flush-mounted mechanism trapped their children inside a vehicle ...

Tesla’s ongoing legal headaches surrounding its unconventional door designs aren’t going away anytime soon. Reports about ...

After Tesla came under NHTSA scrutiny for its potentially deadly electronic door-release systems, Rivian promised to redesign a similar system for the upcoming R2. However, as testers experienced the ...

The parents of a college student who died in a Tesla Cybertruck crash last year are suing Elon Musk’s electric-vehicle company, alleging the truck’s electronic door design trapped their daughter in ...

A California woman’s experience at a charging station has raised serious questions about whether modern […] ...

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 ...

Federal safety records show the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration received complaints that Tesla’s electronic door handles sometimes fail to open when low‑voltage power drops, ...

Rivian is following Tesla in redesigning the door release systems for the upcoming R2 crossover. The electronic release systems have come under scrutiny because people could not get out of the car ...

Earlier this week, the Chinese government moved to ban retractable door handles in new cars following multiple deaths where occupants were trapped inside burning vehicles. Of course, China isn’t the ...