Tesla’s flush door handles have trapped at least 140 passengers since 2018, with some incidents resulting in injuries or fatalities. Unlike mechanical car doors that typically fail open, Tesla’s sleek ...

The EV giant has copped criticism from owners and regulators over a door handle design flaw which has left occupants trapped and, in severe cases, caused fatalities. Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla’s ...

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’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 is being officially investigated by the NHTSA due to allegations that their door handles are unsafe in the event of an accident. Here's why the door handles have allegedly contributed to ...

Tesla recently announced that it is planning to redesign the door handles of its electric vehicles amid growing safety concerns that passengers could become trapped inside. The move was confirmed by ...

Federal auto safety regulators opened an investigation Tuesday into possible defects in Tesla doors that have reportedly left parents with children trapped in the back seat and forced to break windows ...

Tesla is redesigning the Model Y’s flush electric door handles, which are being investigated for trapping people inside. According to a Bloomberg interview, Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen ...

Tesla has confirmed that it is redesigning its door handles with electronic releases after people were left trapped inside its cars. Earlier this week, we reported that the NHTSA had opened a new ...