Volvo shows how safe its smallest car is when hit by its largest

Volvo stated that the standard of safety in the EX90 is higher than any other model before it.

According to a media report, Swedish automaker Volvo recently crash-tested its smallest electric vehicle offering, the EX30, by running its largest car, the EX90, into the side of it.

The test was conducted at Volvo's in-house crash-test lab to prove a point about the EX30's safety. Volvo stated that the standard of safety in the EX90 is higher than any other model before it. The same was done for the EX30 as well. Talking about the EX30's safety, Volvo stated that the EV protects all its occupants "through state-of-the-art restraint technology, as well as top-notch structural design that fulfils our ambitious in-house safety requirements — designed to prepare our cars for various real-world scenarios."

As per reports, the Volvo EX30 has been designed to disperse all the forces around the structure of the car during an accident. Also, the lower structure on both the EX30 and EX90 are specifically designed to absorb most of the energy in a crash. This results in "less damage than you might have expected from the larger car onto the smaller car."

Volvo didn't release the interior view of the EX30 either before or after the crash test. However, Lotta Jakobsson, Volvo Cars Safety Centre, mentioned that "two small-sized females" sitting on the struck side were "well protected" in the crash, suffering only minimal injuries.

Source: Autoblog