China is banning hidden electric door handles for EVs

Close-up of flush-mounted, retracting doorway grip connected Tesla automobile. | Gado via Getty Images

China is banning Tesla-style concealed doorway handles connected electrical vehicles to code information concerns regarding radical getting trapped wrong their cars. The prohibition volition instrumentality effect connected January 1st adjacent year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's announcement, and volition necessitate each vehicles sold successful China to person mechanical merchandise doorway handles connected the wrong and outside.

The prohibition specifically targets hidden handles that retract to beryllium flush with conveyance doors, a plan popularized by Tesla and has since been adopted by different EV makers. According to China Daily, much than 60 percent of the apical 100 hybrid and electrical vehi …

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