Elon Musk wanted Tesla Inc.’s electric door handles to embody the future — sleek, seamless and emblematic of the cool he envisioned plug-in cars would come to personify. He succeeded: In just over a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent Tesla fire shows that drivers of some modern vehicles should learn where emergency door releases are located, before they ...

We've spent quite a bit of time on Project Scarlett, our 1972 coupe project car, converting her from a mild cruiser into a track-capable, 600+ horsepower beast. In order to keep the car relatively ...

Automakers cannot seem to leave simple mechanisms alone, often turning them into more complicated systems in the name of innovation, or whatever one chooses to call it. The 2026 Jeep Cherokee is a ...

Statistics show that driving is probably the riskiest thing any of us do on a daily basis — but because it has become such a routine in most of our lives, we don’t really consider safety as much as we ...

The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced the SAFE Exit Act, aimed at requiring manual door releases in vehicles with electric handles. The measure follows multiple incidents, including fatal ...

The Buick Wildcat EV concept made it obvious that Buick is headed in a new direction in terms of not only branding, but also the styling of its vehicles. On the styling end, GM Authority has now ...

BYD's first mini electric car, or Kei car, has a boxy design and a sliding door, which is typical in this category. The Rolls Royce Spectre has officially launched in India at a starting price of Rs.