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 ...

China is preparing to outlaw the sleek, electrically actuated door handles that helped define Tesla’s design language, turning a once futuristic flourish into a regulatory liability. The move will ...

According to industry reports, there have been numerous recorded incidents of people being stuck inside Teslas due to not knowing how to manually open the electric door handles. Since several of these ...

The more I deal in The Future® here at InsideEVs, the more I see things that didn't need to be reimagined. Things like a simple flap that pops open for electric-vehicle charging, for example, just ...

Tesla is “working on” redesigning its door handles so they are less likely to trap people inside their cars, chief designer Franz von Holzhausen told Bloomberg News on Wednesday. The news comes just ...

Sleek, flush door handles may soon be a thing of the past in the world’s biggest auto market. China’s safety regulators are ...

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

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Tesla isn’t just a car company. It’s kind of a whole vibe. For two decades, engineers and designers—under Elon Musk’s infamously micro-managing eye, of course—have reimagined entire car components to ...