#ElectricCar haters love to spread lies and misinformation – one of those is that all electric cars have electronic-only door handles so if you’re ever stuck inside during a power loss or fire, you’ll be totally unable to get out. Those that do acknowledge the existence of the manual release levers (on EVs with electronic door releases – of course, not all EVs have them and some ICE cars have them too) like to pretend they’re hidden away, hard to find and/or hard to use.
The TRUTH is that the manual door releases on electric cars are neither hidden nor hard to find. So this is a Model Y and the normal way you open the door is by pressing that electronic button there. The reason for that is because it opens the window slightly because it’s a frameless design. But the manual door release is literally just there. You pull it up and open the car.
It’s the same story if you come over to the passenger side. Normal way to open it is like that there. But if for any reason you need to, you can just do that.
In the back they are slightly more hidden, granted, they’re just underneath here and then you go in there. If this is your family car then just make sure your family knows where they are, and the driver/passenger doors would be openable even if you couldn’t find the back door releases!
Other electric cars like the Volkswagen ID3, for example, or this BYD dolphin only have completely normal mechanical door handles.
So next time someone on the Internet tells you that all electric cars are unsafe because you can’t open the doors if there’s a power loss or a fire, you know that that’s one big fat fossil fuel LIE!