EV Crash Test by UNL’s Midwest Roadside Safety Facility
In research sponsored by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Midwest Roadside Safety Facility is investigating the safety and military defense questions raised by the burgeoning number of electric vehicles on the nation’s roadways.
A crash test performed on a guardrail on October 12, 2023 highlighted the concern. At 60 mph, the 7,000-plus-pound, 2022 Rivian R1T truck tore through a commonly used guardrail system with little reduction in speed. Read more here: https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/nebraska-experts-weigh-highway-safety-and-electric-vehicles/
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Weird that this is the only vehicle / crash test you have ever posted… Almost like you have an agenda.
If the windshield-washer fluid tank wasn't full the guardrail would have held.
Why does it emit the engine sound of a gasoline-powered truck?
Hi, can you please let me know where I can get hold of a copy of the report?
Just the good ol' boys. Never meanin' no harm.
Now show a motorcycle and then a semi fully loaded. Lol, way different things. Same awful results.
I feel so bad for the Rivian.
While I like that this “research” went after EVs to get cash and clicks, drive an equivalent ICE vehicle at those barriers and get the same results…without the cab and clicks
I would like to know how often vehicles hit highway barriers at highway speeds while driving PERPENDICULAR to the highway. Also a Ram 3500 can top 9,000lbs, and be even taller. Where was the outrage for those?
😅😂it will buff out
アメリカ人はこういう強い車は大好きでしょう。
Couldn’t happen to a nicer EV!
Hey you may want to share side by side of same size gas truck having this same issue this was a problem with full size trucks nearly 30 years ago as well. https://youtu.be/o1d4NVFtjYo?si=N4WQ71sq2vmdHQGF
Elon duped so many gullible Americans…it was soooooo easy
Was that ARMCO barrier or the cheap stuff they put on roadsides now?😂
Just my opinion, but considering just how gawdawful looking the front of this vehicle is, that crash test was a perfect outcome.
I wonder who the Rivian will hit other cars .🥶
What was the impact angle for these tests?
You don't need an EV until 2035
Those specific curved barriers cause vehicles to climb up them when hit on angles, but they usually don't go all the way over them. It’s the deflection of energy that's safest. The newer, taller, steeper, permanent barriers are safer. My brother hit one on a curve in a late 90s Grand Am and his driver's wheel climbed up on top of those barriers. All he had to fix was the wheel and a few steering rods.
Who hits concrete barriers head on? I try to drive parallel to the barriers and stay in my lane. Seriously, it would take a lot and be rare to go head on perpendicularly. The barrier is NOT connected in a long chain, like on the highways so, it gives way lessening the impact when in reality it wouldn't. Look up Smart car hits barrier head on, that's impressive.
Who on Earth set up the angle for the second camera? Someone's getting fired.
What dummy would get behind the wheel and want to crash that truck?
Guardrails arent designed to be hit at 90 degrees. They are designed to deflect, not stop
Такое ощущение, что в США отбойники делают из фольги, а бетонные ограждения из песка 😅
Oh
Give it some gas! Or electricity lol
That dude who audits guardrails botta lose his ish with this video 😂
Terrorist: better allah akhbar…
Junk
And then, the battery compartment gets compromised, catches fire, possibly killing the occupants that can’t escape and burns for 3-days straight.
Time to use guard rails that have rollers on them 🤔 or just make everything cement 🤷♂️
How much was exact weight???
Só não pegou fogo porquê não usa combustível senão tinha se ferrado os ocupantes se tivesse dentro do carro e complicado essa ideias to fora😮.
thought that 1 headlight was gonna make it…😟
No for EV vehicles
The latest gas powered pickups have gotten much heavier too.
This video isn't helpful.
So we better get busy banning the much more numerous 80k lbs semis on the road, or the myriad of medium duty trucks that weigh anywhere between ~3800 lbs and 80k lbs.
This is just Luddite FUD meant to push us away from EVs.
If vehicle weight really mattered to all these anti-EV folks, they'd be banning the pickups and SUVs they drive now, that weigh well upward of 3800 lbs.
I hope the driver is ok.
As much as I hate evs….this is bogus. Look at 1980s trucks. Alot were between 5k and 10k lbs. So absolute bull.
Can you imagine what it would do to another vehicle that is not electric & more so to the people inside?? 😲😞
The body inside probably sustained more damage than the truck. Another problem is this vehicle in a multi car collision.
I want a Cybertruck Ala Akbar
Sounds to me like everyone should get a Rivian lol. How is this bad news? Leave it to the media to flip everything.
This video made this channel famous with hundreds of thousands of views, and also may sell the Rivian to many people 🤔
This test just sold me a Rivian 😎
How come I hear an internal combustion motor?
Meanwhile, I can't have pop-up headlights on a sports car anymore because they are too "dangerous". Thank you, government.