The families of two college students who died in a Cybertruck crash filed lawsuits claiming the deaths were caused by Tesla design defects.

Electronic and flush-mount door handles are getting attention from regulators. Safety advocates are calling for change following several high-profile crashes where hard-to-find or ...

Trouble opening Tesla’s doors dates back to the early days of the Model S. An otherwise positive New York Times review ...

(AP) - 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 ...

(CNN) — Tesla is looking into redesigning the way to open its car doors in an emergency following several accidents where passengers were reportedly trapped in burning vehicles because rescuers could ...

Sleek, futuristic, and a giant safety hazard—retractable and electronic door handles on EVs are now on regulators' radars. Electronic and flush-mount door handles are getting attention from regulators ...

Tesla is looking into redesigning the way to open its car doors in an emergency following several accidents where passengers were reportedly trapped in burning vehicles because rescuers could not open ...

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 Model Y cars do have manual door releases inside, but NHTSA pointed out that small children usually cannot operate these handles by themselves, leaving them trapped if the electronic handles ...

The U.S. has opened a probe into 174,000 Tesla Model Y vehicles after door handles failed without warning. In some cases, parents smashed windows to free children trapped inside. Tesla is facing ...

When Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency began wielding its ax at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration earlier this year, many believed this was done to weaken the agency's ...