Using a female dummy to challenge wading and serial collisions, how safe is the Euler Lightning Cat?

Crash testing has become a normal form for major car companies to demonstrate whether vehicle safety meets standards. In order to simulate real collision scenarios and conditions as much as possible, in crash tests, the safety performance of the vehicle is often evaluated through the injuries of the dummy in the car.

One of the phenomena, I don’t know if you have noticed it, is that car companies have long used male dummies for crash tests. Even if the female body shape is taken into account, in most cases they are scaled down. The replacement of male dummies ignores the objective differences between women and men in physiological structures, driving habits, sitting postures, etc. In the long run, the protection of women by vehicle safety will not be qualitatively improved.

Data shows that the number of female drivers in our country has reached 162 million. However, the balance of vehicle safety is still tilted towards male demand, which is indeed inappropriate. It is based on this background that Great Wall's Euler brand has stood up and taken practical actions to pay attention to women's car safety.

Specifically, the Euler brand and Tianjin·CATIC successfully completed the "Female Driver Dummy Intersection Collision Challenge" under simulated heavy rain weather conditions. This was also the first time in China that a female dummy was used as a driver. The protagonist’s collision challenge.

Model Introduction

The Euler Lightning Cat was launched at the end of October last year and is positioned as a B-class pure electric coupe. The official guide price is 189,800-269,800. The new car is built on the Lemon platform. It is equipped with frameless doors and an adaptive electric rear wing. It has two types of power: single/dual motors. The dual-motor version can accelerate from 0 to 0 to 100 seconds in 4.3 seconds and has a CLTC range of 555km, 705km and 600km. kind.

This crash safety test is mainly divided into two stages. The first stage is a wading test, which mainly verifies the waterproof performance of the vehicle's three electrical systems; the second stage is a serial collision test, which mainly verifies Whether the impact of the vehicle after a collision can effectively protect the female driver.

Wading test

The tested Euler Lightning Cat will be immersed in 30cm deep water for 2 hours. After the immersion, engineers will check whether the vehicle has leakage or is unable to drive. situation occurs. In the end, the Euler Lightning Cat, which underwent a 2-hour wading test, had no insulation failure or any fault codes and could be powered on and driven normally.

Serial crash test

Two Euler Lightning Cats were prepared at the scene. The newly wet vehicles were used as crash vehicles, also called "bullet cars". The driver was installed with a female driver. Dummy, a male dummy is installed in the passenger seat. The other vehicle was used as the vehicle that was hit. A female dummy was installed in the main driver and a child dummy was installed behind the passenger.

In the test, the bullet car will hit the hit vehicle at a speed of 50km/h. It is equivalent to test vehicle B being hit three times. The first collision at the intersection, the second collision caused by sliding towards the telephone pole, at the same time, the bullet car did not stop, continued to squeeze forward, and followed up with a third collision.

In the end, both cars withstood the test. The A-pillar and front anti-collision beam of the bullet car were structurally intact and performed very well in frontal collisions. The main pressure-bearing parts of the collided car, including the B-pillar, sill beams, and upper side beams, did not undergo structural deformation, providing sufficient living space for the passengers in the car.

The seat belts of the two vehicles were automatically pre-tightened and triggered, and the main airbags, side airbags and side curtain airbags quickly popped up, catching the dummy's vital parts well.

Secondly, there is no leakage, fire or explosion in the entire vehicle. The doors automatically unlock and the emergency rescue system proactively calls out, leaving ample emergency escape time and opportunities for passengers.

I think the success of this crash test is not only a severe test of the safety of the Euler Lightning Cat, but also a contribution to the establishment of safety awareness and safety mechanisms for female users in the entire automobile industry. Standard demonstration. We also hope that other manufacturers and other models can keep up with the pace and continue to raise vehicle safety standards. After all, this is beneficial to the majority of consumers.

In fact, this is not the first time that Euler Lightning Cat has demonstrated its powerful safety performance to the outside world. As early as October last year, it joined hands with the China Automotive Industry Center to conduct four tests on vehicle battery safety. The tests included piercing the battery core with a 20mm steel needle, burning the entire package for 140 seconds, thermal runaway, and dropping the entire package from a height of 6 meters.

At the same time, the car also conducted the first high-speed spiral roll and drop challenge for an electric vehicle in China. In the end, the vehicle did not suffer from electrolyte leakage, spontaneous fire, or vehicle leakage. It can also be seen from this that Euler Lightning Cat has a high degree of confidence in its safety performance, and I think consumers like this confidence.

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