- China will ban retractable EV door handles on new vehicles starting January 2027.
- Mechanical emergency releases will be mandatory for both interior and exterior door handles.
- Tesla and other automakers must redesign handles to meet new safety standards.
I was losing it over seeing an electric car that had its charge port door behind a motorized door. Car "engineers" and "designers" are jokers. Why have a simple latch and spring system, when you can have a slow and easily breakable motor without even an obvious button to open it that you can charge $2000 to repair?
So cool that we bailed these freaks out in 08.
Its not just CAR engineers. Its engineers ime. Theres something about the field that makes people very narrow minded. There's a bridge in vancouver BC canada that when it finally opened they had to shut it down to fix it cause the engineers never even considered that ice would build up on the cables and structure and massive ice bombs were dropping down on cars nearly killing them.
I stg that engineers are all taught to engineer shit for conditions in Los Angeles
It's to prevent people from opening up the charge port, taking a hose, and sucking out the electricity to funnel into their own cars.
You know, i heard of this great new invention called a lock and key that prevents people from accessing things that they should not access.
Give the charging cable a little suck first to get the electrons flowing
Don't drink the electrons when you get the siphon going, you'll get a nasty stomach ache
And if you do get a tummy ache, definitely do NOT drink anti-electrons to cancel it out
The only reason features like this exist is to assuage the paranoia of upper middle class treat demons who think every time they drive past a black person in their gated community they are about to be carjacked. Pretty soon these things will be spraying CS gas at paramedics.
Mechanical emergency releases will be mandatory for both interior and exterior door handles.
This is such an obvious safety necessity, i have to wonder how it was not yet regulation. Electronics can fail. Power supply can be lost for whatever reason. A mechanical mechanism is far more reliable and less prone to failure if well maintained (nothing rusted, bent or corroded). And i think this should apply to more things than just car doors. Any truly essential system should have an analog/mechanical backup.
i have to wonder how it was not yet regulation
obviously this should've been regulated the second these cars went to market but the idea of these doors is so contrary to common sense it's not surprising there wasn't a rule on the books beforehand
To me, the potentially catastrophic problem of a motorized door latch failing was immediately apparent. But I'm someone who will drive a car until it's an unusable pile of rust. I would definitely have this problem at some point. I'm thinking that I'm not the type of person these cars are marketed to.
gonna be in a tesla for 4 hours this coming weekend. really hoping this isn't the way I go lmao
look up where the door release are. i think for some it's in the glove box
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STILL LOVE THE CARIt's so versatile, why use a drum when I can use my luxury child crusher as a source of warm 
15 deaths in the US directly attributed to this bazinga feature
I don't think Tesla started this, Aston Martins from the mid 2000s had them.
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