The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration cited the additional complaints in an Oct. 27 letter to Tesla about the ...

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 ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday it had opened an investigation into about 174,000 Tesla Model Y cars from the 2021 model year over reports that electronic door handles ...

It’s not just in the United States where Tesla is facing scrutiny over its electric door handles. Shortly after it was revealed that safety regulators in the US were probing the door handles of the ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday it had opened an investigation into about 174,000 Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab Model Y cars ...

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 ...

A heroic shop-owner who desperately tried to free a man and two children from a burning Tesla after its retractable door handles failed to open has described how he tirelessly worked to put the fire ...

Four people were killed in Toronto after the Tesla they were riding in crashed into a pillar and burst into flames. A fifth rider, an unidentified woman in her twenties, narrowly survived the crash ...

The family of a college student killed in a Cybertruck car crash has sued Tesla, claiming the design of the vehicle’s doors were a “death trap.” Krysta Tsukahara, 19, and two others were killed when ...

The family of a college student killed in a Cybertruck car crash has sued Tesla, claiming the design of the vehicle’s doors were a “death trap ... release cable forward and then push the door open.

Tesla is now under a new federal investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, according to an Office of Defects Investigation announcement on September 15, 2025—but it isn't ...