{"id":235723,"date":"2025-09-18T06:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235723\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T06:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:32:10","slug":"tesla-exec-says-the-company-will-redesign-door-handles-that-reportedly-pose-safety-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235723\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla exec says the company will redesign door handles that reportedly pose safety risks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation<\/a> into Tesla following a report by Bloomberg that its electric door handles could stop working when a vehicle’s low-voltage battery fails. That created a safety hazard that the publication found could trap passengers when a Tesla car was in an emergency situation, such as a crash. Now, Bloomberg is back with the news that Tesla plans to redesign<\/a> those problematic handles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tesla design head Franz von Holzhausen appeared on Bloomberg’s Hot Pursuit! podcast and said the company is considering a new approach that combines the electric and manual release mechanisms. “The idea of combining the electronic one and the manual one together into one button, I think, makes a lot of sense,” he said. “That\u2019s something that we\u2019re working on.” He didn’t specify why Tesla was working on a redesign, but it’s hard to imagine the timing of the federal probe isn’t relevant.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The company has already been in the NHTSA’s sights this year. Last month, the regulator opened an investigation<\/a> into how Tesla was reporting crashes with its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems. Although Tesla claimed the inconsistencies in reports were due to a system error that it has fixed, the NHTSA said it would continue the probe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into Tesla following a report by Bloomberg…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":235724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3638,64,126653,7829,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-235723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bloomberg","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-safety-hazard","11":"tag-tesla","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115223903856497548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}