These incidents highlight the importance of knowing how to manually open the doors of a Tesla in case of a power failure. The Tesla Model S has a manual door release mechanism for both front and ...

See, Edmunds has a long-term Model S and there is some discussion there over whether the car's slide-out-as-you-approach door handles are ... leaves his or her hand in an open handle for too ...

The Tesla Model S P85D that Consumer Reports is testing had problems with it door handles, making the car temporarily undrivable. Tesla Motors needs to get a handle on those door handles.