Would having an electric motor have an impact on crash test results compared to the same car with an internal combustion engine?
For example a Volkswagen Golf can be have an internal combustion engine or an electric motor. Would the car behave differently if it would be in the exact same crash test scenario?
I tried researching this but could only find crash tests of electric vehicles which are not available as internal combustion engine and the other way around.
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With electric cars the batteries are often on the bottom of the car which lowers the center of gravity making rollovers less likely. Also (not sure if crash tests account for this) but electric motors can respond way quicker to a loss in traction by vectoring power to the wheels, combustion engines take longer to do this
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