Have you ever worried about BYD's passive safety?
Are you a waste of fame as a road tank?
Do you know what the concept of 40,500 Nm per kWh is?
On January 16, "CAIC Center" released the latest batch of C-NCAP safety crash test results, and BYD Seal won the five-star safety evaluation with a comprehensive score rate of 88.6%, and passed the "electrical safety" evaluation. In fact, the tests are a bit redundant, but it's a pity that the three cars that crashed. Anyone who has a certain level of knowledge of the automotive industry will not have any doubts about the safety of BYD's seals.
BYD's foreign road tank has been famous since the "ancestors" Tang, S6, S7. One of my car friends in the group, driving a generation of Tang, hit a large cargo head-on on the highway, and the vehicle was scrapped, but two of the three people in the car were bruised, one was slightly injured, and the pelvic bone was cracked, so he was hospitalized for 7 days. With such a real combat record, the test results are actually not important.
The seal is the pioneer of BYD's CTB battery body integration technology, and the master of e platform 3.0. The body stiffness exceeds 40,000 Nm per degree, exceeding the level of many million-class luxury cars. A C-NCAP is just a necessity.
Of course, there is one thing to say, now the C-NCAP of CAIC adopts the scoring standard of the 2021 model, which is more stringent than before, and the gold content of this five-star is higher. Moreover, the overall score rate of Seal is 88.6%, which is the current first place in the overall list since the implementation of the "C-NCAP Management Rules" (2021 version).
The so-called Chengye Xiao defeated Xiao He, the main deduction of points for seals, the reason is also "the body is too hard". This is a new concept introduced in the 2021 rating criteria, called collision compatibility. The simple understanding is the damage caused to the other party, if the strength of the body is too high, it will cause excessive damage to the opposite vehicle and occupants. In addition, in terms of pedestrian protection outside the car, BYD also lost points due to the body being too hard and not having enough effective cushioning.
A few more words about collision compatibility. This is a relatively advanced safety concept originating from Japan, which does not pursue "high strength" but emphasizes "low damage". When two cars collide, what really hurts people is the energy generated after the collision. In the early days, the car was blindly pursuing body strength, and the result was a collision, and the car was not a big deal, but the people in the car walked peacefully. Later, a buffer zone was added to absorb energy through the collapse of the front of the car, and although the car hit beyond recognition, under the protection of seat belts and airbags, the members of the car were better protected and the survival rate was greatly improved.
The pursuit of low damage by Japanese automakers is to protect the occupants from the perspective of reducing the collision energy, not only to protect their own occupants, but also to protect each other. However, although the concept is advanced, but the steps are a little big, in reality there are many traffic participants, the weight and size of the body are not an order of magnitude, the body strength is not enough to effectively protect the members in the car in the accident, and at the cost of their own safety, the pursuit of the ideal collision result is also irresponsible to consumers.
Anyway, this crash test, the seal proved itself, even if it didn't need this level of crash test to prove anything. As the benchmark product of the current B-class pure electric vehicle, Seal has been proven at the market level. Consumers are becoming more and more aware of cars, which can be seen in the sales of seals. It's just that pure electric models still have great limitations in the north, and it would be better if they could be like Nezha S and Deep Blue SL03 with a lower exit price, but an extended range version without endurance anxiety.