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 ...

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 ...

A new lawsuit was filed in Wisconsin against Tesla, alleging that the defective door designs prevented the passengers from ...

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

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 ...