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 ...

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 ...

Child locks are why it's not required to have a release in the back seat. The Tesla front doors do have a mechanical release in the front on the armrest but it's completely separate from the normal ...

Consider door locks as well. My 2014 Impala has protruding locks you can lift manually, but the 2017 version I drove as a loaner had the door locks flush when locked. Worse, they lock automatically ...