As much as electric car builders hail their vehicles as the future of transportation, one question they couldn’t answer fully was just how well their vehicles would withstand a crash.Automakers have spent decades finessing their chassis; what happened when an engine-lessvehicle went head-on into a barrier wasn’t clear, and as the post crash-test smoldering of a Chevy Volt demonstrated, the batteries posed new challenges.
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