Congresswoman Robin Kelly of Illinois introduced a bill that would force Tesla to redesign its deadly door handles and ...

A new bill in Congress, the SAFE Exit Act, would mandate easy-to-find manual door releases for EVs, directly targeting ...

Predictably, the NHTSA has expanded the previous Model Y emergency door handle investigation to the Model 3, which features a similar door release design ...

A U.S. lawmaker is proposing legislation that would effectively require automakers, including EV firms like Tesla and Rivian, ...

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 is now under a new federal investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, according to an Office of Defects Investigation announcement on September 15, 2025—but it isn't ...

Tesla's stock dropped after a Christmas Eve announcement of a new U.S. investigation into emergency door releases ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday it had opened an investigation into about 174,000 Tesla Model Y cars from the 2021 model year over ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a defect investigation into Tesla's Model 3 vehicles over the car door's release and concerns the controls may not be easy to find in an ...

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 ...

I'm interested in understanding all the failure modes of the various approaches. The door locks prevent exterior people from opening the doors as well. Most cars auto-unlock in the event of a crash ...