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 ...

From Tesla to Lexus, more and more vehicles have doors with an electronic button instead of a manual latch. CR lets you know how to open them in an emergency.

Feds want Tesla to hand over internal documents about complaints and accidents related to electronic door handles ...

You’re at the baseball field. You just dropped your kid off. Midway through a peaceful walk to the bleachers, your phone buzzes: “A door on your Tesla Model X is open.” No problem, you think. Open the ...

The U.S. auto safety regulator investigating whether certain Tesla Inc. door handles are defective received more complaints ...

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 ...

NHTSA expands its probe after more Tesla owners say faulty door handles trapped their children inside. Regulators push for ...

U.S. auto safety regulators are investigating whether some Tesla Inc. vehicle doors are defective, citing incidents in which exterior handles stopped working, trapping children inside. The National ...

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 co-founder and CEO Elon Musk gestures while introducing the newly unveiled all-electric battery-powered Tesla Cybertruck at Tesla Design Center in Hawthorne, California on November 21, 2019.