Many electric vehicles have used retractable door handles, but they've fallen under scrutiny in recent years. Why have automakers stuck with them for so long?

China has become the first major nation to ban hidden or retractable door handles on all new cars, a design popularized by ...

China is considering a ban on retractable door handles, which were popularized by Tesla in the early 2010s. In September 2025, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology began drafting ...

Technology advances at such a rapid pace that sometimes it creates more problems than it solves. China’s regulators are preparing to crack down on what they see as a great example of that: fully ...

Many new cars—in particular Teslas and a few recent Mercedes-Benz products—feature electronically retractable door handles that disappear into the body as a flush component. These handles look sleek, ...

Headlights. Indicators. Trunk releases. Seatbelts. Airbags. Just about any part of a car you can think of is governed by a long and complicated government regulation. It’s all about safety, ensuring ...

China is banning Tesla-style door handles as U.S. regulators look into safety issues too. Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Retractable door handles, popularized by Tesla, are now ...

China is the first country to ban retractable doorhandles from new cars after tragic incidents saw people trapped in vehicles with no ability to escape. A new law introduced by China’s Ministry of ...

Lucid Group has been granted a patent for a car door handle that lies flush with the car door surface when not in use. The handle rotates out and presents a grip-through loop for easy door control ...