Electric cars are too big and heavy for crash barriers now
Heavy electric vehicles and their low-mounted battery packs are causing concerns for road safety infrastructure experts.
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Heavy electric vehicles and their low-mounted battery packs are causing concerns for road safety infrastructure experts.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA (AP) — Electric vehicles that typically weigh more than gasoline-powered cars can easily crash through steel highway guardrails that are not designed to withstand the extra force, raising concerns about the nation’s roadside safety system, according to crash test data released Wednesday by the University of Nebraska. Electric vehicles typically weigh 20 per […]
Preliminary tests by a University of Nebraska road safety research facility and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers point to concerns that the nation's roadside guardrails are no match for new heavy electric vehicles
New tests indicate the guardrails on US roads are not robust enough to stop heavy electric vehicles from breaking through.
A nearly 4-ton 2022 Rivian R1T tore through the metal guardrail and hardly slowed.