Electric Cars Are Proving Safer in a Crash

electric cars were different in a lot of ways you know that also different when they crash is that a good thing or a bad things we've all seen and probably spent way too much time watching those fascinating crash test videos typically from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety it's how they figure out who gets a top safety pick foreign but to test electric cars they had to make a change they had to basically test their rig and see if it can lug up to 9 500 pounds of vehicle down the runway into that cement block this is because electric cars can weigh a ton you know a Hummer EV weighs over 9000 pounds they'd never tested anything like that before even a Mercedes eqs about 6000 pounds the new Volvo ex-90 electric SUV about 6200 even a Tesla Model S merely a sedan not a utility clocks in at like 4 800 pounds all of these are far above the 4 100 pounds or so that is the average weight of a non-electric car purchased in 2022 and even that 4100 is being skewed High by th...