Bullet points of Study: Electric Vehicle Batteries Make Cars Too Heavy to Be Stopped by Safety Guardrails
Bullet points of Study: Electric Vehicle Batteries Make Cars Too Heavy to Be Stopped by Safety Guardrails
- Electric vehicles are too heavy to be restrained by guardrails
- The study used a 2022 Rivian R1T truck and found that it completely blasted through the guardrail
- Researchers warn that there needs to be 'some urgency to address this issue'
- The study was sponsored by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center and partnered with Auburn University's Transportation Research Institute
- Electric vehicles are too heavy to be restrained by guardrails
- The study used a 2022 Rivian R1T truck and found that it completely blasted through the guardrail
- Researchers warn that there needs to be 'some urgency to address this issue'
- The study was sponsored by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center and partnered with Auburn University's Transportation Research Institute