General Motors: The 400,000-square-foot Ingersoll facility will make packs for CAMI Assembly, which last week temporarily halted production of BrightDrop s Zevo electric vans because of an ongoing battery shortage.
kris van cleave reports federal safety regulators have taken notice. reporter: crash tests show electric vehicles hold up well in a collision. there batteries make the cars heavier. offering better protection to passengers inside. but that extra weight, hundreds to even thousands of pounds, comes with some risks. i think it does resent significant challenges for safety. reporter: national transportation safety board chair jennifer homendy. if you think about an impact in a crash, with a lighter vehicle, with a pedestrian, it is going to have a much different outcome than we have seen in the past. terribly tragic. reporter: this crash test shows a sedan being hit by an suv weighing nearly 1,000 pounds more. the car suffers noticeably more damage. >speak with a simple model r: rarbelaez hiy fety he crash in the vehicle heavier is meant to be more severe. reporter: the hummer ev can go from zero up to rack 60 in