The tesla model s performed so well in nhtsa crash tests that it earned a 5 4 out of five stars and broke the roof crush machine in the process.
Tesla breaks roof crush.
Before you discount them.
But the model s aced them all.
Front side pole and rollover.
The roof of its model s electric sedan is apparently so strong that.
The roof of its model s electric sedan is apparently so strong that it broke a testing machine during.
There is no damage from the outside to the glass roof.
Then of course there s the roof crush that tesla won t stop talking about where the model s broke the testing equipment after it exceeded 4gs of gravitational force.
Then when the nhtsa tried to test the roof crush protection the model s broke the machine.
Tesla motors founder elon musk once joked that the model s would get six or seven star ratings from the nhtsa if the agency s rating system went that high.
And tesla adds in its announcement that during a previous roof crush test used during validation the machine failed while applying.
Update 8 21 with nhtsa statement on tesla crash results and press release.
When it did the model s scored 50 percent better than the next highest scored vehicles.
As crash test boasts go tesla is claiming a good one.
Tesla model s breaks crash test machine as crash test boasts go tesla is claiming a good one.
The small half an inch ling crack morphed into this big crack.
Watch the ev suffer through its trials like a.