Recently the United States IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the United States Highway Safety Insurance Association) announced several new energy vehicle crash test results, including hybrid Chevrolet Volanda and Toyota Prius Prime made "excellent +" title, while the other Two pure electric car BMW i3 and Tesla MODEL S is with "excellent +" missed. After all, these two well-known pure electric vehicles in what areas have been lacking, resulting in poor performance? This article will explain in detail for you.
As the IIHS latest test 2017 MODELS pre-collision system software upgrade has not yet pushed in place, so no results in the corresponding test project, greatly affect the final evaluation. As the IIHS lighting test standards higher than the US national standard, so Tesla MODEL S and BMW i3 in the corresponding test projects have some shortcomings, mainly the distance and range of exposure problems. These two models do whatever they want and IIHS "excellent +" title missed, more of the adjustment and configuration of the reasons, we believe that through the appropriate adjustments and upgrades, the two car's performance will be greatly improved.