Throughout the design of the Ariya, Nissan engineers subjected the new 100% electric crossover coupe to 400 crash tests, each time analyzing around 100 crucial safety data.
1/1000th of a second! That’s how long it takes for a Nissan crash test vehicle to do its job. At the Nissan Technical Center in Atsugi, Japan, a team of engineers work tirelessly to ensure that all Nissan models, including the new all-electric Ariya crossover coupé, offer a high level of crash safety .
Nissan submits each of its models to rigorous crash tests that reproduce frontal, side and rear collisions, as well as impacts with pedestrians. During testing procedures, engineers from Nissan’s Passive Safety Evaluation Group measure the force of the impact on the vehicle’s body and structure, as well as its effects on the driver and passengers via dummies of different sizes and builds. equipped with many sensors.
“More than 100 data points are evaluated on the Ariya. » explains Gen Tanabe of Nissan’s Passive Safety Evaluation Group. “As the new Ariya will be sold in many markets, we have conducted over 400 tests from the early stages of development through launch. »
A 100% electric vehicle, the Ariya has benefited from many procedures used for the Nissan LEAF, which allows it to benefit from stricter safety measures than those required by the regulations. For example, since the Ariya’s battery is high voltage, safety engineers had to ensure that it retained its structural integrity following a crash without the electrodes leaking.
Serving as the foundation for the development of safer automobiles, Nissan’s Safety Shield concept includes active and passive safety measures to keep vehicle occupants safe in many different scenarios. The overall objective is to prevent collisions and, where avoidance is not possible, to mitigate damage and injury.