{"id":345195,"date":"2026-02-02T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/china-finalizes-proposed-ban-on-tesla-style-hidden-door-handles-for-safety\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:39:00","slug":"china-finalizes-proposed-ban-on-tesla-style-hidden-door-handles-for-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/china-finalizes-proposed-ban-on-tesla-style-hidden-door-handles-for-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"China finalizes proposed ban on Tesla-style hidden door handles for safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/china-finalizes-proposed-ban-on-tesla-style-hidden-door-handles-for-safety.jpg\" \/>China has officially moved forward with a proposed ban on flush EV door handles, with an effective date of January 1, 2027. The regulation will force a redesign of many EVs with sleek, electronically-actuated handles, a design popularized by Tesla. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/02\/02\/china-finalizes-proposed-ban-on-tesla-style-hidden-door-handles-for-safety\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/china-finalizes-proposed-ban-on-tesla-style-hidden-door-handles-for-safety\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":345196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}