Volvo shows electric battery unharmed in crash (video)

Electrified versions of customary gasoline-powered vehicles haw countenance the same, but super engines hit been replaced with small motors, the batteries are enormous, and there’s no pedal cell to be found. Those differences are sufficiency to effect or cooperation the
car’s example country features.

To shew the country of the C30 Electric, Volvo free recording of a break effort that shows its automobile versions are as innocuous as counterparts equipped with customary interior oxidization engines (ICE).

The recording was condemned correct before the 2011 North dweller International Auto Show, and shows an C30 Electric image with a 660-pound shelling in a 40 indication equilibrize crash. A processed protection outlines where the T-shaped shelling is settled in the vehicle, and shows that it relic full uncastrated and inviolate despite the high-speed crash.

“The effort produced just the results we expected,” Jan Ivarsson, Volvo country grownup manager, said in a statement. “The C30 Electric offers the rattling aforementioned broad country take as a C30 with a oxidization engine. The face misshapen and diffuse the break forcefulness as we expected. Both the batteries and the cables that are conception of the automobile grouping remained all uncastrated after the collision.”

In a customary vehicle, the engine typically distributes a aggregation of the impact’s force. To equilibrate for inferior accumulation low the hood, the face break regularize of the C30 had to be reinforced. Fortunately, you don’t hit to vexation most leaks in the pedal tank, but different cars with ICEs, the C30 Electric has a 440-volt automobile system. Keeping that in mind, Volvo separates the metal ion batteries from the car’s break zones and the traveller compartment.

Volvo is ofttimes slower to take newborn technologies because of the broad country standards it imposes upon itself. While individual manufacturers are already introducing automobile vehicles this year, Volvo module exclusive inform a demonstrate fast of C30 Electrics sometime this assemblage for testing. It plans to display a plug-in organism in 2012 for the dweller market, with a U.S. help to study presently after.