Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Disappearing door handles of death? Tesla's stylish electronic door latches are widely coveted, but also are reportedly involved ...

Door handles on a Tesla Model 3 in front of the company's store in Colma, California, US, on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. Tesla Inc. is working on a redesign of its door handles, which have drawn scrutiny ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into the emergency door release controls on some Tesla Model 3 sedans, over concerns that the mechanical release to open the ...

Elon Musk wanted Tesla Inc.’s electric door handles to embody the future — sleek, seamless and emblematic of the cool he envisioned plug-in cars would come to personify. He succeeded: In just over a ...

Federal regulators are investigating Tesla's emergency door release systems on its Model 3 and Model Y vehicles. A separate investigation into the Model Y's emergency door handles began in September ...

Congress is moving to rein in the sleek, flush door handles that helped define the Tesla look, arguing that design has gone too far at the expense of basic safety. The Securing Accessible Functional ...

Tesla is facing growing scrutiny in the United States over allegedly faulty electric door handles that fail to open in an accident, making it difficult for emergency services to rescue occupants. For ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a defect investigation into Tesla's Model 3 vehicles over the car door's release. NHTSA already investiging door handles on Tesla Model Y.