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US’s guardrail system can’t handle heavy EVs, preliminary test crashes indicate

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Under an overcast sky last fall, engineers with a University of Nebraska road safety facility watched as an electric-powered pickup truck hurtled toward a guardrail installed on ...
Finance & Commerce

Nation’s guardrail system may need to be adapted to handle heavy EVs

LINCOLN, Neb. — Under an overcast sky last fall, engineers with a University of Nebraska road safety facility watched as an electric-powered pickup truck hurtled toward a guardrail installed on the ...
The Drive

Watch a 7,000-LB Rivian R1T Destroy a Guardrail in Eyebrow-Raising Test

In the 1990s, the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility looked into the then-50-year-old highway guardrail system and found it to be incapable of handling the increasing number of SUVs and pickups at the ...