Tesla Breaks Roof Crush

Then when the nhtsa tried to test the roof crush protection the model s broke the machine.

Tesla breaks roof crush.

As crash test boasts go tesla is claiming a good one. Watch the ev suffer through its trials like a. 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. Tesla model s breaks crash test machine as crash test boasts go tesla is claiming a good one.

I am glad tesla service was super responsive and took immediate care of me. I called tesla and they readily agreed to replace it with a new roof. Before you discount them. When it did the model s scored 50 percent better than the next highest scored vehicles.

But the model s aced them all. 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. And tesla adds in its announcement that during a previous roof crush test used during validation the machine failed while applying. There is no damage from the outside to the glass roof.

Update 8 21 with nhtsa statement on tesla crash results and press release. 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. Front side pole and rollover. 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.