Tag: Tesla door handles
China Tightens Restrictions On Electric Door Handles, Forcing Tesla To Recall 3 Million Vehicles
Tesla didn’t start the electric door handle craze. Hotrodders in the late 1940s and early 1950s substituted electric buttons for mechanical door handles in their effort to “de-chrome” their cars. But Tesla, under Elon Musk’s direction, took the idea and ran with it when it introduced the Model S. Subsequent … [continued]
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The Hidden Lever: A PSA & What Tesla’s Door Handles Reveal About Its Safety Culture
I’m in Teslas regularly these days. Vancouver’s rideshare ecosystem has quietly standardized around them. Open the Uber app, call a ride, and odds are good a Model 3 or Model Y slides up to the curb. I don’t own a car, so my view of these machines is almost entirely … [continued]
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China To Ban Hidden Door Handles
Hidden door handles were almost nonexistent until Tesla made them the only option in all of the EV company’s cars. But they have become the norm among new electric vehicles since then, in China as well as in the US and Europe. It makes some sense, too, because aside from … [continued]
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Tesla Model Y Rear Door Emergency Release Hack. Redesign In Progress.
Two weeks ago, I wrote an article about a couple in Virginia who are suing Tesla, claiming they were trapped inside their Model Y after it collided with a utility pole in 2023. An off-duty first responder rushed to the stricken couple, but the exterior door latch was not working. … [continued]
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