Tesla Breaks Roof Crush

Front side pole and rollover.

Tesla breaks roof crush.

While the exact number is uncertain due to model s breaking the testing machine what this means is that at least four additional fully loaded model s vehicles could be placed on top of an owner s car without the roof caving in. Tesla model s breaks crash test machine as crash test boasts go tesla is claiming a good one. Update 8 21 with nhtsa statement on tesla crash results and press release. The small half an inch ling crack morphed into this big crack.

I called tesla and they readily agreed to replace it with a new 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. 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. The roof of its model s electric sedan is apparently so strong that it broke a testing machine during.

Watch the ev suffer through its trials like a. Before you discount them. And tesla adds in its announcement that during a previous roof crush test used during validation the machine failed while applying. 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.

But the model s aced them all. 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. The roof of its model s electric sedan is apparently so strong that.