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In this video Scania crashes a Volkswagen Golf against its first electric truck to test the batteries

Scania, the Swedish truck and bus manufacturer owned by the Volkswagen Group, has put testing the safety of your first electric truck’s battery crashing into it a Volkswagen Golf seventh generation.

The test, which the brand itself has disseminated in video, It is somewhat striking because we usually see how organizations like Euro NCAP test the security of various models, but for this it uses structures that impact from various angles against the vehicle in question.

Scania, however, preferred crash a car into the zero emission truck, since it puts “much more stress on the structure [que recubre la batería] than if we had used a barrier. We want the crash test to be as authentic as possible, “explains Mikael Littmann, the manufacturer’s head of mechanical tests.

Ideally, to ensure the safety of an electric vehicle battery in the event of an impact is that the impact energy is distribute and spread throughout the structure that surrounds it, Scania details.

A highly planned test … but with the firefighters attentive

Scania Star Electric Truck Volkswagen Golf 2

The objective is to produce plastic deformation and kinetic energy in less critical components, adds the manufacturer, and that is precisely what they verify after carrying out the test and disassembling the shell that surrounds the battery.

Anyway, “firefighters are vigilant when the test is done“points out Jakob Leygraf, Scania’s test engineer, about what might happen when dealing with a” real “crash.

Before conducting the actual test, however, a planning that can take months and numerous simulations. It takes advantage of the fact that these are faster and cheaper to carry out, and finally the work is reflected in the actual crash test “to confirm that the calculations are accurate,” explains Leygraf.

And the firefighters have already warned that it is not the same extinguish the fire of an electric car than that of a gasoline or diesel one, so that crash tests or crash tests are even more crucial with the progressive electrification of vehicles.

Scania Truck Electrico
Scania Truck Electrico

Scania launched his first electric truck last September and is available with various configurations (4×2, 6×2, 6×2 * 4).

In the case of the versions with wheelbases of more than 3,950 mm, mount five batteries, for a total of 165 kWh and 130 km of autonomy; for all wheelbases over 4,350 mm, equips nine batteries of 300 kWh total capacity for 250 km life between charges.

These are housed in the frame and feed a 230 kW electric motor or about 310 hp and 1,300 Nm.

The truck, whose maximum authorized weight is 29 tons, uses a Combined Charging System (CCS) and, recharging at 130 kW DC, the five batteries are charged in less than 55 minutes and the nine batteries, in an hour and a half.

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