Want a safe car? Crash tests say you should go electric : electricvehicles

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not having 50L of volatile liquid in a tank might be helping: A battery might catch fire but it doesn't splash.

Being able to distribute mechanical components out of the traditional engine bay too: no longerdirectly inferring of the passenger compartment.

[–] HisArmsOpen@crust.piefed.social 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Once you've been EV, you never go back. (I don't have sufficient creativity!)

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

Fuel guzzlers now try to mimic the power of transmission-free driving.

[+] Sepia@mander.xyz -6 points 5 days ago

What do they understand safe? Is a remote kill switch safe?

[+] kepix@lemmy.world -9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

whoever wrote this advertisement, havent seen a burning car battery

[–] budget_biochemist@slrpnk.net 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Fires in Petrol/Diesel vehicles are about 20 times more likely than in EVs.

More data from Norway - at the time 28.3% of cars in the country were electric but they were involved in only 7.4% of total vehicle fires. More data in the article shows that the rate is decreasing too.

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 days ago

the rate is decreasing too

That's to be expected I guess as more and more batteries aren't even flammable anymore, e.g. LiFePo.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

Or a leaking gas tank.

[–] nimisnimi@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Basically, you require a special section in the car safety assessment documents, listing random people exclamations - when they see a fire burning?

Wow. /S

[+] fishos@lemmy.world -7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, for the same reason SUVs are "safer". They weigh a fuck ton more than the average car due to the batteries. Of course a tank is gonna do better in a crash against a small sedan. But what about vs pedestrians? What about the people in that sedan?

This isn't "safer for everyone". This is "safer for me while disregarding everyone else".

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Heavier vehicles get into more crashes. The safest crash is the one you avoid.

Teslas have more crashes that any other brand the lest two years.

[–] MagicPterodactyl@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago

The main reason EVs are safer in a crash is due to a low center of gravity which makes them extremely unlikely to rollover. Trucks and SUVs only make people feel safer but because of the much higher rollover risk they are actually generally less safe than most cars.

[–] schizoidman@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Scoring for the crash test also calculates safety for road users and the drivers assistant systems.

https://media.whichcar.com.au/uploads/2026/01/ANCAP-Top-Performers-2025.jpeg

[–] fishos@lemmy.world -5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

That doesn't account for safety of other car. That's the safety of people IN the car and pedestrians. And again, you're doing things like put a tesla 3 in the "small car" category. Size? Sure. By weight? Hell no. You're not properly accounting for those factors.

Force = Mass X Acceleration. A larger vehicle will always exert more force. Plow a Tesla 3 into a Civic and see who lives. It's literally why buses don't have seatbelts. The bus will always tank whatever hits it. All you're doing is building tanks and acting like that's somehow a safety improvement.

It's not "EV vehicles are safer" like you're trying to paint it. It's "heavier vehicles are harder to damage". This isn't an EV issue. It's basic physics that you're trying to spin into pro-EV propaganda. By the same logic you should buy a F650.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

But heavier vehicles also have more crashes because they can't turn or brake.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 1 points 5 days ago

electric vehicle vehicles?

Electric Vehicles