While the exact number is uncertain due to model s breaking the testing machine what this means is that at least four additional fully loaded model s vehicles could be placed on top of an owner s car without the roof caving in.
Tesla breaks roof crush.
And tesla adds in its announcement that during a previous roof crush test used during validation the machine failed while applying.
Before you discount them.
I am glad tesla service was super responsive and took immediate care of me.
Tesla model s breaks crash test machine as crash test boasts go tesla is claiming a good one.
There is no damage from the outside to the glass roof.
Tesla motors founder elon musk once joked that the model s would get six or seven star ratings from the nhtsa if the agency s rating system went that high.
Update 8 21 with nhtsa statement on tesla crash results and press release.
I called tesla and they readily agreed to replace it with a new roof.
Then when the nhtsa tried to test the roof crush protection the model s broke the machine.
The roof of its model s electric sedan is apparently so strong that.
As crash test boasts go tesla is claiming a good one.
The tesla model s performed so well in nhtsa crash tests that it earned a 5 4 out of five stars and broke the roof crush machine in the process.
Then of course there s the roof crush that tesla won t stop talking about where the model s broke the testing equipment after it exceeded 4gs of gravitational force.
Front side pole and rollover.
The small half an inch ling crack morphed into this big crack.
Watch the ev suffer through its trials like a.