The Midwest Roadside Safety Facility at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) has mobilized to answer the safety and military defense questions raised by the burgeoning number of electric vehicles on the nation’s roadways.
In research sponsored by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), the Nebraska facility recently conducted a first-of-its-kind crash test of an EV pickup truck to better understand whether currently used guardrails and U.S. military protection measures against hostile vehicles are prepared for the growing number of EVs.
Thousands of fatalities result each year from more than 100,000 run-off-road crashes involving traffic infrastructure such as
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