--- title: "Tesla Faces Lawsuit for Cybertruck Doors Allegedly Trapping Occupants: TDS" date: "2025-10-03" modified: "2025-10-03" authors: - name: "Adam Ismail" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/adam-ismail" url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-faces-lawsuit-for-cybertruck-doors-allegedly-trapping-occupants-tds" categories: - "News" - "The Downshift" --- # Tesla Faces Lawsuit for Cybertruck Doors Allegedly Trapping Occupants: TDS ![A Tesla Cybertruck is displayed at a Tesla dealership on December 20, 2024 in Corte Madera, California.]() *\Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\* Good morning and welcome to *[The Downshift]()*, or *TDS* for short. *The Downshift* gathers all the automotive headlines you need to know as you start your day. News is summarized in a sentence or two, and you can follow links for a deeper dive. Happy Friday, let's get into it. 🧑‍⚖️ Tesla has been sued over the Cybertruck's door design, following "a series of incidents," in *[Bloomberg's]()* words, of people being trapped inside the vehicle following a loss of power, in some cases leading to injury or death. The suit was filed on Thursday in California state court by the family of a college student who died in a Cybertruck crash last November in Piedmont. 🔌 In other Tesla news, sales of the EV maker's products increased by 7.4% in the third quarter, compared to last year. However, the market doesn't seem to think that trend will hold now that the federal tax credit has disappeared, and so shares fell by 3.6% anyway, *[Bloomberg]()* reported. 🫰 More than one in six car buyers are financing vehicles with $1,000 monthly payments, according to data from Experian, relayed by *[Automotive News]()*. And if you want to identify precisely when that happened, blame the supply shortage between 2021 and 2022, when the percentage of buyers with $1,000-plus payments ballooned from 6.7% to 15.5%. 🗓️ If you're wondering when Jaguar Land Rover will restart production after a crippling cyberattack, it seems they are, too. All a spokesperson could tell *[Autocar]()* as of Friday was that activity would resume "in the coming days." Wednesday marked a month since the company's plants shut down due to the hack. 🔥 Nissan will recall 19,000 Leaf EVs in the U.S. due to a fire risk when fast charging, the NHTSA said Friday, per *[Reuters]()*. 🇬🇧 British startup Encor has announced a Lotus Esprit restomod in the style of the Series 1 cars, though they will use Series 4 donors from the '90s because they incorporated V8s. They'll cost $580,000 *in addition* to the cost of sourcing your own Esprit for the project, according to *[Hagerty]()*. 📱 A Xiaomi SU7 owner in China claims that their car drove away on its own while parked and with nobody in the driver's seat, per *[CarNewsChina]()*. It was reported that an Apple device sent a remote parking command to the vehicle, though the owner says their phone was not in use at the time of the incident, and [supplied a video]() to back this up. *Have feedback on the formatting of TDS? Send us a note: tips@thedrive.com*.[]() ## Author Adam is a Senior Editor at The Drive, concentrating on curating and developing the site's slate of daily journalism, from initial pitch to final copy edit. When he's not at his desk researching leads and working with writers, he's testing vehicles or reviewing racing games, new and old. He joined The Drive in 2023, following seven years of covering consumer technology and cars. A car lover and gamer since his earliest memories, Adam came to know the automotive world through video games. First it was Daytona USA, Sega Rally, and Ridge Racer; then came Need For Speed, which inspired an encyclopedic knowledge of '90s supercars, and, of course, Gran Turismo. If not for them, he'd assuredly be doing something else right now. Adam is based in the suburbs outside Philly, where there are ample roads for his hot hatch to stretch its legs. In his car, he's probably listening to indie rock, drum and bass, or Yankees baseball. ### Author social links [Bluesky]() [Instagram]() [LinkedIn]()