On Feb. 27, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Ford Motor Company alleging that the Mustang EV posed a significant safety threat to vehicle occupants because its doors lacked external handles.

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 ...

As technology in vehicles continues to trend toward science fiction, car doors have started to be integrated into the vehicles themselves for sleeker designs. Modern vehicles like the Tesla Model S ...

Although sliding doors are usually synonymous with minivans today, the first car in America with them wasn't a minivan at all ...

ATLANTA — A Georgia man who got trapped in his Tesla as it caught fire is pushing for safety changes with the electric car maker. The concern is the doors on Teslas and some other electric cars.

Federal investigators are piling the pressure on Tesla over its cars’ electronic door handles. The NHTSA wrote to the automaker last week requesting access to internal Tesla documents that might ...

Back to the Future and its DeLorean made the gull-wing doors famous to the masses. However, a number of other vehicles have ...