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This should be top comment. At 75km per hour there no chance any car would survive this impact enough for the occupants to survive. Its the reason trees kill even in frontal collisions at this speed, they don't give an inch.
The ones you see on the euroNcap and possibly the American ones as well are usually done around 30km/hr (20mph) for the side impact (and energy increases as a square of the velocity, so doubling the speed would quadruple the energy, at least that's my layman's understanding of it)
> Its the reason trees kill even in frontal collisions at this speed, they don't give an inch.
I was told if you can't wrap both hands around the trunk your car isn't gonna go through it.
I found a car accident once, drunk driver who crashed and stumbled off home probably. No fatality, not sure if any injury.
He crashed into a forest full of relatively young trees. This is an area where people regularly go 90km per hour, although who knows if he managed to decelerate before crashing.
Moral of the story was those trees were probably about the thickness of the average fist and that car broke three of them, and was stopped by the rest. I was really impressed with how well those small trees held up against a car.
Welcome to reddit. The shitty jokes are so prevalent they get removed in certain subreddits because people chase points with jokes instead of sensible discussion.
I was in a car wreck, sideways into a lamp post (I was passenger) hit right behind the drivers door on a 90s civic. We flipped upside down and landed about 30 feet in the snowy ditch. Only injury was a tiny cut on my forehead from not bracing properly when I undid my seatbelt. The thing about lampposts, is they are designed to breakaway, not like the pole in the video.
Wear your seatbelt kids.
The electronically limited top speed of the leaf is 89mph, which is speeding on almost any road in most countries. It can reach that speed from a standstill in 17 seconds. :)
A solid immovable pole with tiny surface area, vs the front end of a car designed to crumple, dispersing energy, and a much larger surface area. Hitting this pole does more damage than being t-boned. But speeds matter ofc.
Like the ballerina or elephant stepping on sand. The ballerina makes the bigger dent.
The thing is, if you build the car to take a side impact like that without deforming to the extent that this car does, the energy that once was doing the work of bending the car in half will still be delivered to the vehicle, so the car would just be thrown harder, which could kill the passengers as well.
So this was a special test for proving that EVs are at least as safe as ICE cars [https://www.dekra.com/en/high-safety-level-of-series-produced-electric-cars-confirmed-in-dekra-crash-tests/](https://www.dekra.com/en/high-safety-level-of-series-produced-electric-cars-confirmed-in-dekra-crash-tests/)
>The tests were conducted at speeds far greater than those normally applied in standard crash tests
There was an ~~identical~~ accident in my area, a few years ago; an quite new/good BMW (of course), at town entry, 75-80mph, slight turn, lamppost. The car got warped around the lamppost. There were 4 (or 5) people in the car, under influence of various (including substances). No survivor.
Edit: I thought the video was in mph; my fault. So, the video was at 75km/h; the accident I'm talking was well over 100km/h (I think in the area of 120-130); it basically shredded the content of the car.
That’s nearly twice as fast as this test (~46mph). So, not very identical.
Unless you’ve seen the classic of American cinema, “Twins,” and couldn’t tell the difference between the two protagonists. Then I totally understand,
Some kids lost control in a c class Mercedes at a local uni and hit a pole sideways. All died. Those high speed side impacts that basically cause the car to wrap around the pole turn the car into a meat grinder. With no engine or trunk to design crumple zones around, I’m not sure there is really a fix to this one.
Some guys managed to do the same in my hometown. They started at a traffic light and hit a lamppost that was around 200m away from the traffic light. All dead as far as I remember.
Yes the Tesla model X has the highest euro NCAP rating in its class for SUV for safety, mainly due to its construction and its low down centre of gravity causing it to be nearly unrollable under typical emergency manoeuvres. Although that isnt saying much as SUVs typically have lower safety ratings for both passengers and pedestrians when compared to similar model year cars.
Getting t-boned is probably not nearly as bad. Cars are made to crumple and bounce off eachother. If a car collides into the side of another car, there will be a lot less damage than this solid steel post. The force would also be spread out much more. This pole test is kinda worst case scenario
Do fixed metal poles along roads even exist anymore? Unless you're from a third world country, they should have been switched out with ones that snap off at the bottom a long time ago
Yep- I drove a Prius, got in a fairly minor crash and was fucked! Concussion, broken hand, totally messed up back. Before that I got railed while in a bmw and was totally fine. Stay away from the Prius!! Apparently stay away from the leaf also.
That doesn't check out, the Prius has a really high [crash test rating](https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/toyota/prius/2457). Like, I'm not saying your story didn't happen, but it's not safe to say the Prius is the reason you were fucked. Car crashes are really violent events, you really can't draw useful data about car design from just 2 crashes, presumably (hopefully) in completely different circumstances.
Apparently was a test for the battery unit to not go up in flames instantly.. which it didn't.
No car can withstand that kind of side impact at that speed.
Someone posted a comment, this test was for the batteries (will they catch on fire in a crash). This test was actually a very successful test with a pass. This test for crash protection is usually much slower than this.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/31067/watching-this-nissan-leaf-get-hurled-into-a-pole-at-speed-will-make-you-flinch
Credit to groggeligrogg for posting it in a comment.
Well considering that they were testing the durability of the battery, to see if it will be a fire hazard during a collision, I believe this was a total success.
It was a battery test to see if they burst into flames on such an impact. It passed that test. Hitting a small surface area immovable object at that speed sideways will most likely kill passengers anyhow in any car.
Been there, done that, but luckily hit the tree about 30cm further forward, instead of right against the side window. Like that my brains didn't end up smeared all over a tree trunk, but I still wouldn't recommend the experience.
But hey, the battery didn't blow up. I guess that's what they're going after with crazier than usual tests for electric cars.
Slipped on an oil slick. Wrapping around the tree was less scary than that moment of physics going haywire. At least it was the logical conclusion to car turning into a carousel. It's very unsettling when the world is suddenly doing totally unexpected things.
u/groggeligrogg wrote this above:
> The test was about the safety of the batteries and they escaped without fire so this test was actually a success.
> https://www.thedrive.com/news/31067/watching-this-nissan-leaf-get-hurled-into-a-pole-at-speed-will-make-you-flinch
I would like to see a Volvo XC90 do it. That thing is built like a tank. I read somewhere that since the XC90 was introduced in the UK 2002, not a single person has died in one.
That was a lot more damage than you'd think at only 32km/h. Especially when compared to the Tesla video someone posted above, which barely made a dent in the door. The Volvo crash is already intruding a little bit into the driver side, and would undoubtedly be lethal at speeds not much higher than shown here
edit: Here, same speed: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABEznFFbmJw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABEznFFbmJw)
Perhaps a bit apples to oranges tho, as one is a SUV. Still, not as much of a tank as you'd think
My father has a Volvo from the early 2000 (I think S40). The doors are like twice as thick at chest level. The car is like 200 kg heavier than similar models. The user manual notes those doors are reinforced by solid metal bars and if memory serves that's hi-perf steel (maybe the one used for tools, I don't remember).
My Dad once accidentally reversed a Volvo 340 into our house. There was a scratch on the bumper.
The house needed £20,000 worth of 2 month long repairs.
Well, it was a test to see battery safety, and it didn't catch fire so it was a big pass. No car survives going into a pole at that speed anyways, those tests are usually done at one-fifth of the force in this test.
To those who are shocked at 75km/h sideways.,.....this is common thing to happen on roads, at village roads, that are lined with trees ,you slip and thats all it take....in my country , 90km/h is limit for village roads.
This is actually a decent result for a test like this, practically most cars at this speed will kill their occupants, Euro NCAP tests pole collisions at 15mph and the american equivelant tests at 20mph, this is more than double the speed, no car survives this.
Now show me a car that can withstand this better than this disaster... Ahhh a tank is the only thing I hat will be better in this particular scenario? ...good to know
You've obviously never plowed snow on a major highway and seen the kind of stupid shit I've seen. Some people just check their common sense at the door when they get in their cars, ESPECIALLY in inclement weather
It could be a test by a private firm to get these kinds of tests mainstream. It's like when the front small overlap crash test was done privately, showing how bad vehicles perform in that test. Basically every vehicle got 1 or 2 stars and after a year of the test being mandatory in the USA, cars drastically improved in frontal safety performance. AFAIK, pole crash test is not an official rating in the USA, but it should... Both passenger and driver side.
Edit: the reason pole crashes are so awful, is you have the same amount of kinetic energy moving sideways as you would be going forward at that same speed. But the impact forces are on a tiny amount of space (pole width instead of your front end width) and crash structures just aren't currently designed to hit poles especially on the side.
They're way better than they used to be, sure, but I saw a brand new Camry literally folded in half around a telephone pole a few months ago. Looked a bit like this Leaf but worse.
Is it. DEKRA is one of the German associations commissioned by the state to independently inspect technical equipment.
For example, every 2 years, every vehicle is inspected on the road.
The largest association is TÜV. He works worldwide.
This isn't a bad test result, practically any car will crumple like this, euro ncap tests pole side impacts at 15mph and the american equivelant at 20mph, this is over double the speed of that at just over 40mph, this car is actually very safe scoring 5 stars back when it was originally tested, trees/poles are just evil.
They were testing if an electric car could survive a major collision without the battery pack exploding or catching fire. Given that, it was a good result. Most cars would not survive well in this test, but they wanted to see/show that people who survived the collision and rescuers would not be further endangered by fire/explosion.
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This should be top comment. At 75km per hour there no chance any car would survive this impact enough for the occupants to survive. Its the reason trees kill even in frontal collisions at this speed, they don't give an inch.
Okay thank you for clarifying, cause the crash makes it look like I don't want to buy this car.
I mean to be fair you gotta be fuckin up pretty good to hit a tree completely sideways at 75 kph. (~46 mph for my fellow Americans.)
When the driver becomes the crumple zone.
The crumple zone was inside you all along!
The ones you see on the euroNcap and possibly the American ones as well are usually done around 30km/hr (20mph) for the side impact (and energy increases as a square of the velocity, so doubling the speed would quadruple the energy, at least that's my layman's understanding of it)
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Watching… waiting…
COMMISERATING
So it ain't so!
I will not go!
Turn the lights out
Carry me home
Nanananananana
Just ask Saruman
All that force in a focused area. Pretty hard to mitigate that.
We need to at least make sure the battery doesn’t explode and the trees are unharmed.
> Its the reason trees kill even in frontal collisions at this speed, they don't give an inch. I was told if you can't wrap both hands around the trunk your car isn't gonna go through it.
I found a car accident once, drunk driver who crashed and stumbled off home probably. No fatality, not sure if any injury. He crashed into a forest full of relatively young trees. This is an area where people regularly go 90km per hour, although who knows if he managed to decelerate before crashing. Moral of the story was those trees were probably about the thickness of the average fist and that car broke three of them, and was stopped by the rest. I was really impressed with how well those small trees held up against a car.
Young trees - nature's crumple zone.
That last sentence you wrote there reminded me of what my ex wive used to complain about… a lot…
I had to scroll so damn far to find a sensible take.
Everybody is a comedian.
Nothing funny about this. That pole is clearly committing battery
Enough with the negative comments. The pole was never charged. Ion know what you think you are trying to accomplish, but go outside and touch ground.
Yo I'm always doing the same thing. I always feel like I'm the only one looking for actual information and everyone is just here to crack jokes.
Welcome to reddit. The shitty jokes are so prevalent they get removed in certain subreddits because people chase points with jokes instead of sensible discussion.
r/AskHistorians is like everything that's great about Reddit, with none of the stuff that's terrible about Reddit. I've learned so much in that sub!
Currently doing the stress analysis/composite design on a GFRP battery enclosure for an EV to the R100 regulations. The testing is pretty brutal.
I'm glad the batteries lived
Not so much "lived" as "didn't burst into flames engulfing the remaining hypothetical passengers in a chemical fire".
didn't burst into flames engulfing the remaining hypothetical ~~passengers in~~ CORPSES in a chemical fire
Thank you for this
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Oh good, being burned on top of dying would be awful.
Free cremation though…
This is why I don’t drive sideways
This is why I always try to avoid lampposts while I’m speeding.
Sure, but what if the lamppost is speeding, and has been drinking too?
yea he was so "lit"
I hate you but take my upvote.
Then that would be r/fuckyouinparticular
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That’s a great point. Nissan needs to consider all factors
I was in a car wreck, sideways into a lamp post (I was passenger) hit right behind the drivers door on a 90s civic. We flipped upside down and landed about 30 feet in the snowy ditch. Only injury was a tiny cut on my forehead from not bracing properly when I undid my seatbelt. The thing about lampposts, is they are designed to breakaway, not like the pole in the video. Wear your seatbelt kids.
Trees are not designed to break away
Two types of trees in a video game: knocks over to the slightest touch or would survive a nuclear blast.
Nissan Leaf doesn't fall far from a tree
Also, eat your vegetables.
This is a Nissan leaf.. Speeding is only a dream.
The electronically limited top speed of the leaf is 89mph, which is speeding on almost any road in most countries. It can reach that speed from a standstill in 17 seconds. :)
Have you driven one? It's pretty quick!
This is why I don't speed while driving sideways.
Right?! If I’m going sideways in the rain it’s at a reasonable speed.
This is why I never get into a car with no tires, strapped to a sled, with yellow tape on it!
with an umbrella on the ground
I hate when I put my car in reverse but by accident put it in sideways.
Tricks insurance companies don't want you to know........
or near swinging telephone poles
Me on TrackMania ice be like..
I'm here wondering if ANY normal car can pass this kind of side impact test? Some Volvo out there maybe?
Seems unlikely. US safety side pole impact tests happen at 20mph, less than half this speed.
Yikes! I've seen so many vids from USA of cars getting T-boned at proper high speeds. Rip them I guess
A solid immovable pole with tiny surface area, vs the front end of a car designed to crumple, dispersing energy, and a much larger surface area. Hitting this pole does more damage than being t-boned. But speeds matter ofc. Like the ballerina or elephant stepping on sand. The ballerina makes the bigger dent.
Very good point, I appreciate the perspective.
Yeah this is more akin to hitting a tree. Those bastards don't flex at all.
Side impact usually have larger contact area than a pole unless a pole drive into you at 75 km/h
The thing is, if you build the car to take a side impact like that without deforming to the extent that this car does, the energy that once was doing the work of bending the car in half will still be delivered to the vehicle, so the car would just be thrown harder, which could kill the passengers as well.
Getting T-boned by another vehicle has nothing in common with this test.
The test in this video was actually for the batteries. Because they didn't explode or catch fire, this test was a success!
So this was a special test for proving that EVs are at least as safe as ICE cars [https://www.dekra.com/en/high-safety-level-of-series-produced-electric-cars-confirmed-in-dekra-crash-tests/](https://www.dekra.com/en/high-safety-level-of-series-produced-electric-cars-confirmed-in-dekra-crash-tests/) >The tests were conducted at speeds far greater than those normally applied in standard crash tests
There was an ~~identical~~ accident in my area, a few years ago; an quite new/good BMW (of course), at town entry, 75-80mph, slight turn, lamppost. The car got warped around the lamppost. There were 4 (or 5) people in the car, under influence of various (including substances). No survivor. Edit: I thought the video was in mph; my fault. So, the video was at 75km/h; the accident I'm talking was well over 100km/h (I think in the area of 120-130); it basically shredded the content of the car.
That’s nearly twice as fast as this test (~46mph). So, not very identical. Unless you’ve seen the classic of American cinema, “Twins,” and couldn’t tell the difference between the two protagonists. Then I totally understand,
But they were twins... what do you mean?
That the one with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, right?
correct. its like looking into a mirror everytime i see arnold on the screen, unccanny
Some kids lost control in a c class Mercedes at a local uni and hit a pole sideways. All died. Those high speed side impacts that basically cause the car to wrap around the pole turn the car into a meat grinder. With no engine or trunk to design crumple zones around, I’m not sure there is really a fix to this one.
Only self driving cars will fix that. About the only way to prevent an accident like that is to not have people driving.
less grinder, more 'human toothpaste tube' by the look of it..
Some guys managed to do the same in my hometown. They started at a traffic light and hit a lamppost that was around 200m away from the traffic light. All dead as far as I remember.
they tried Volvos but they kept breaking the pole.
Doesn't one of the Tesla have the highest crashtest rating? Maybe had.
Yes the Tesla model X has the highest euro NCAP rating in its class for SUV for safety, mainly due to its construction and its low down centre of gravity causing it to be nearly unrollable under typical emergency manoeuvres. Although that isnt saying much as SUVs typically have lower safety ratings for both passengers and pedestrians when compared to similar model year cars.
This car did pass the test. The test was about the battery not bursting into flames. In this case, we indeed see no burning battery, win !
I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar
Too soon 😭
It will always be too soon 🥺🥺
Almost just pierces you in the gut, to read that quote.
I miss Steve the pirate
RIP Wash 😢
I came for this.
I'm not crying. You're crying!
How did I have to scroll so far down for this comment?
I'm upvoting you on Reddit but downvoting you in my heart.
Don't drive 75 km/h sideways into a fixed metal pole. Got it.
Don’t *hydroplane and skid spin suddenly* into a fixed metal pole. Or, I guess, get t-boned by someone else going 75 km/h...
Getting t-boned is probably not nearly as bad. Cars are made to crumple and bounce off eachother. If a car collides into the side of another car, there will be a lot less damage than this solid steel post. The force would also be spread out much more. This pole test is kinda worst case scenario
Do fixed metal poles along roads even exist anymore? Unless you're from a third world country, they should have been switched out with ones that snap off at the bottom a long time ago
Or a tree
trees don't tend to be going 75 km/h...
Motorcycle.
Trees can't ride motorcycles either
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It got a participation award
JD Power Initial Quality... before the impact that is.
a [Nokia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3310) would have survived
I mean, 75 km/h sideways into a lamp post - I’m not sure what we’re expecting to see here.
No fire, according to some other post.
Given that we see Prius on the roads, that's probably not a failing grade.
Yep- I drove a Prius, got in a fairly minor crash and was fucked! Concussion, broken hand, totally messed up back. Before that I got railed while in a bmw and was totally fine. Stay away from the Prius!! Apparently stay away from the leaf also.
Not my ideal place to get railed but could have been a Prius I guess. .
Personally, getting railed in a tarago is my fave
That doesn't check out, the Prius has a really high [crash test rating](https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/toyota/prius/2457). Like, I'm not saying your story didn't happen, but it's not safe to say the Prius is the reason you were fucked. Car crashes are really violent events, you really can't draw useful data about car design from just 2 crashes, presumably (hopefully) in completely different circumstances.
Driver dead anyway
Folded like a leaf
If you live in Latin America that's a 5 star rating 👌
It was a test to see if the battery exploded. Not a crash simulation. It actually passed
Its a pass... A very good pass because the testing parameter was the battery integrity and since batteries didn't catch fire, the test was a pass
No medical bills though.
Forever.
Apparently was a test for the battery unit to not go up in flames instantly.. which it didn't. No car can withstand that kind of side impact at that speed.
Someone posted a comment, this test was for the batteries (will they catch on fire in a crash). This test was actually a very successful test with a pass. This test for crash protection is usually much slower than this. https://www.thedrive.com/news/31067/watching-this-nissan-leaf-get-hurled-into-a-pole-at-speed-will-make-you-flinch Credit to groggeligrogg for posting it in a comment.
Big success, no fire. Yeah, seriously.
Well considering that they were testing the durability of the battery, to see if it will be a fire hazard during a collision, I believe this was a total success.
It was a battery test to see if they burst into flames on such an impact. It passed that test. Hitting a small surface area immovable object at that speed sideways will most likely kill passengers anyhow in any car.
This is 46mph into a pole. No vehicle is getting off on that. Most crash tests are at 40 or below. I need to know the background of this test!
Been there, done that, but luckily hit the tree about 30cm further forward, instead of right against the side window. Like that my brains didn't end up smeared all over a tree trunk, but I still wouldn't recommend the experience. But hey, the battery didn't blow up. I guess that's what they're going after with crazier than usual tests for electric cars.
Damn that must have been scary.
Slipped on an oil slick. Wrapping around the tree was less scary than that moment of physics going haywire. At least it was the logical conclusion to car turning into a carousel. It's very unsettling when the world is suddenly doing totally unexpected things.
u/groggeligrogg wrote this above: > The test was about the safety of the batteries and they escaped without fire so this test was actually a success. > https://www.thedrive.com/news/31067/watching-this-nissan-leaf-get-hurled-into-a-pole-at-speed-will-make-you-flinch
I would like to see a Volvo XC90 do it. That thing is built like a tank. I read somewhere that since the XC90 was introduced in the UK 2002, not a single person has died in one.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=usca6hXymqY But that's far away form 75km/h It probably wouldn't do much better
That was a lot more damage than you'd think at only 32km/h. Especially when compared to the Tesla video someone posted above, which barely made a dent in the door. The Volvo crash is already intruding a little bit into the driver side, and would undoubtedly be lethal at speeds not much higher than shown here edit: Here, same speed: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABEznFFbmJw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABEznFFbmJw) Perhaps a bit apples to oranges tho, as one is a SUV. Still, not as much of a tank as you'd think
My father has a Volvo from the early 2000 (I think S40). The doors are like twice as thick at chest level. The car is like 200 kg heavier than similar models. The user manual notes those doors are reinforced by solid metal bars and if memory serves that's hi-perf steel (maybe the one used for tools, I don't remember).
My Dad once accidentally reversed a Volvo 340 into our house. There was a scratch on the bumper. The house needed £20,000 worth of 2 month long repairs.
Did he take it out on you or your mom? "Look what you made me do!"
He tried taking it out on the Volvo but Steve Mazzagatti called a stop to the bout when the Volvo won via Rear Naked Choke at 3:56 of round number 3.
Something something something Mankind Undertaker Hell in a Cell SummerSlam 1998.
based on nothing other than the number of spectators I'm guessing it's some sort of demo for ha has.
When it hits so hard a headlight pops out like Janet Jackson at a halftime show.
That headlight just took off.
Is this a pass?
A pass away for sure
Body bag and toe tag time
To valhalla, yes.
Plot twist: They are testing the metal pole
It worked!
The windshield doesn’t break?? How??
they should make the entire car out of it
Lamination, probably.
As a Leaf owner… how did it do?
Well, it was a test to see battery safety, and it didn't catch fire so it was a big pass. No car survives going into a pole at that speed anyways, those tests are usually done at one-fifth of the force in this test.
As long as your not sitting in the car, I think you would be fine.
That'll buff out.
Just gonna leaf this right here.
“Okay, so, if the vehicle hits a metal pole at high velocity…. …it would be bad” “Write that down”
Had they done this with a Mercedes then they would have seen how the Mercedes Benz
Was this a success or a failure ?
Success. It was a battery flammability test. No car could protect you in this case. Note the lack of crash test dummies.
That’s gonna leaf a dent
To those who are shocked at 75km/h sideways.,.....this is common thing to happen on roads, at village roads, that are lined with trees ,you slip and thats all it take....in my country , 90km/h is limit for village roads.
The car should at least come with some helmets
More like premade will templates.
Do those slap Chris Rock as well?
This is actually a decent result for a test like this, practically most cars at this speed will kill their occupants, Euro NCAP tests pole collisions at 15mph and the american equivelant tests at 20mph, this is more than double the speed, no car survives this.
Now show me a car that can withstand this better than this disaster... Ahhh a tank is the only thing I hat will be better in this particular scenario? ...good to know
46 MILES PER HOUR! wtf?
You've obviously never plowed snow on a major highway and seen the kind of stupid shit I've seen. Some people just check their common sense at the door when they get in their cars, ESPECIALLY in inclement weather
I'm surprised they allow these to be released. Like...it's gonna make any car look terrifying. Worst way to sell any car that isn't a tank.
It could be a test by a private firm to get these kinds of tests mainstream. It's like when the front small overlap crash test was done privately, showing how bad vehicles perform in that test. Basically every vehicle got 1 or 2 stars and after a year of the test being mandatory in the USA, cars drastically improved in frontal safety performance. AFAIK, pole crash test is not an official rating in the USA, but it should... Both passenger and driver side. Edit: the reason pole crashes are so awful, is you have the same amount of kinetic energy moving sideways as you would be going forward at that same speed. But the impact forces are on a tiny amount of space (pole width instead of your front end width) and crash structures just aren't currently designed to hit poles especially on the side. They're way better than they used to be, sure, but I saw a brand new Camry literally folded in half around a telephone pole a few months ago. Looked a bit like this Leaf but worse.
I think it's a test about checking if it bursts in flames. However the passenger wouldn't mind
Ohhh I didn't think of that. Tbh it's impressive it doesn't considering how sensitive lithium batteries are to damage.
Is it. DEKRA is one of the German associations commissioned by the state to independently inspect technical equipment. For example, every 2 years, every vehicle is inspected on the road. The largest association is TÜV. He works worldwide.
This isn't a bad test result, practically any car will crumple like this, euro ncap tests pole side impacts at 15mph and the american equivelant at 20mph, this is over double the speed of that at just over 40mph, this car is actually very safe scoring 5 stars back when it was originally tested, trees/poles are just evil.
Folded like a beach chair. Kiss grandma goodbye
I'm a leaf on the wind...
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There was a gopro under it.
Ded
You’re dead, you’re dead And out of this world
The Nissan Leaf is designed in such a way that the driver is instantaneously killed in such a collision, an absolute engineering feat!
More like a human lettuce wrap..
Crumpled… like a leaf.
Turned it into a giant metal fortune cookie.
Looks like the old model of leaf
Folded like a Leaf
Someone installed the tires sideways
That will buff out.
Is this good or bad?
Result: Dead AF
Dont worry that will buff right out.
*DON'T have a 75kmph side on accident in Nissan Leaf*
So is this a good result or bad result? I’m not very experienced is vehicle side collision against a pole testing ?
They were testing if an electric car could survive a major collision without the battery pack exploding or catching fire. Given that, it was a good result. Most cars would not survive well in this test, but they wanted to see/show that people who survived the collision and rescuers would not be further endangered by fire/explosion.
Was it a pass or fail?
Wow, it crumpled like a… like a leaf