Tata Punch and Nexon score perfect 5 in first BNCAP EV crash test

Tata Harrier and Safari sport utility automobiles additionally grew to become the primary vehicles in India to obtain a 5-star security score from BNCAP in December final yr.

The Punch.ev achieved the best rating level ever recorded by any car up to now, scoring 31.46 out of 32 for grownup occupant safety (AOP) and 45 out of 49 for youngster occupant safety (COP), the corporate reported.

The Nexon.ev additionally scored impressively, with 29.86 out of 32 for AOP and 44.95 out of 49 for COP.

Union Minister of Highway Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari wrote in a submit on X, “Congratulations to @tataev @TataMotors for attaining a 5-star BNCAP score for the Punch.ev and Nexon.ev, thus changing into the primary ever 5-star-rated EVs within the Indian automotive market.”

He emphasised that as EVs form the way forward for mobility in India, a powerful BNCAP score serves as a useful instrument for customers in selecting safer automobiles, highlighting the excessive degree of security supplied to car occupants.

The take a look at

The Ministry of Highway Transport and Highways has launched an indigenous star-rating system for crash-testing vehicles.

Beneath this method, automobiles will obtain between one and 5 stars, indicating their security in a collision. Referred to as BNCAP, this voluntary score system was applied on October 1, 2023.

Beneath BNCAP, vehicles nominated voluntarily by vehicle producers will bear crash exams based mostly on protocols outlined within the soon-to-be-published Automotive Business Commonplace 197.

The programme applies to passenger automobiles with as much as eight seats (together with the driving force’s seat) and a gross car weight not exceeding 3,500 kilograms. Solely the bottom mannequin of every variant might be examined.

Automobiles obtain rankings between one and 5 stars after analysis on three parameters: AOP, COP, and security help applied sciences current within the car.

The primary two parameters are decided by three distinct exams, together with a frontal offset take a look at the place a car drives at 64 kilometres per hour (kph) with a 40 per cent overlap right into a deformable barrier simulating a head-on collision, and different exams just like the facet impression take a look at at 50 kph and the pole facet impression take a look at, the place a automobile crashes sideways right into a inflexible pole at 29 kph.

The testing protocols adopted by BNCAP are modelled after International NCAP, a mission of the UK-based NGO In direction of Zero Basis.

Throughout its launch final August, Gadkari emphasised that BNCAP will play a important function in making India’s automotive trade self-reliant and in positioning India because the world’s main vehicle hub.

Regardless of authorities investments in infrastructure, street accidents in India proceed to rise alarmingly.

In 2022 alone, there have been over 460,000 mishaps ensuing within the lack of 168,491 lives — an all-time excessive, in line with the Ministry of Highway Transport and Highways’ annual report on street accidents launched on Tuesday.

States and Union Territories reported 461,312 incidents in 2022, inflicting accidents to 443,366 folks. This marked an 11.9 per cent improve in accidents, 9.4 per cent in fatalities, and 15.3 per cent in accidents in comparison with 2021.

With inputs from Deepak Patel

First Printed: Jun 13 2024 | 9:39 PM IST