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		tomtang0514 on April 28, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get? FYI, the IIHS small overlap frontal test, which I personally consider as the "hardest" test today, is done at 40mph. By that saying, a crash in the city can be worse than the test result. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance_Institute_for_Highwa...

Retric on April 28, 2016 [–]

You can have a partial overlap at 40MPH or 70MPH, the second is much more difficult to survive.

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