Today on Critical Materials: the auto industry faces a reckoning over electric door handles. Plus, are Americans fed up with big trucks? Tesla isn’t just a car company. It’s kind of a whole vibe. For ...

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

After a series of fatal crashes linked to electric door handles, China is banning them and forcing automakers to rethink global safety 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 ...

The 2021 Tesla Model Y's electric door handles may not work, so the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened an investigation. The federal safety agency said that nine ...

Tesla is a company that prides itself on minimalism, whether it's for cost-cutting purposes or style or a little of both. But in doing so, the automaker sometimes overcomplicates basic car functions, ...

The SAFE Exit Act would create a standard for easily identifiable manual door handles. It would require Tesla Inc. to modify its design.

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 ...