2011 Chevrolet Volt front and side crash tests

Insurance Institute Test Results:

Frontal offset: Good
Side impact: Good

Performance in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's crash tests is one factor in Consumer Reports' recommendations for new and used vehicles. Other criteria are CR testing & reliability ratings, plus government safety test results.

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[conceptcs]

um i think it has a gasoline engine also

[ACEDcomputers]

@dallaspolo

Yea, 3 weeks after it crashed. After an accident you are suppose to disengage the batteries. They decided to put them in storage without disengaging them. Also don't forget over 400,000 cars a year ignite on fire.

[Saebeck32]

Thanks for doing these videos!!

[counkev]

@poiiihy The car does not have an exactly gasoline engine. The engine generates electricity rather than power the car. And with the electricity that powers and moves the car. The "engine" is only to power electricity when the battery is depleted. Other than that the "engine" does NOT power the wheels AT ALL. That's what most people don't get about this vehicle.

[RandyV8MW2]

Why, do people buy more japanese cars? why American cars?

[poiiihy]

@conceptcs of course it does. how does the engine run?

[ddknaim]

@Seadgaranovic Li-ion batteries have no dripping acid.. unless you're carrying a lead-acid battery as a fashion accessory, which, in that case, you deserve to have your legs mutilated lol

[ShieldsJustice]

@ReSanSax

agreed.

[dallaspolo]

May have passed crash test.. But both Volts caught fire after the test. Another GM problem on Wheels.

[Thunderchicken1997]

This video was made before the Feds got involved with their concerns of a fire in the battery compartment. No recall, but I saw something about this, this week on CNN.

[GentlemanofWolves]

Actually the head does not make contact with the window; the paint would have showed that. And this is a 1st part segment of 2 which also involves the Nissan Leaf. NATURALLY they don't show that the EXACT same thing happened with the Leaf. Not that Consumer Reports is Bias or anything. Cheers.