LINCOLN, Neb. — Electric vehicles that typically weigh more than gasoline-powered cars can easily crash through steel highway guardrails that are not designed to withstand the extra force, raising ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — “You're seeing the car make contact with the rail. The rail lifts up and deforms backward and it does eventually rupture,” James Kovar, an assistant research scientist at the Texas A&M ...

In the 1990s, the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility looked into the then-50-year-old highway guardrail system and found it to be incapable of handling the increasing number of SUVs and pickups at the ...

And that's a concern.” The preliminary crash test sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Research and Development Center also crashed a Tesla sedan into a guardrail, in which the sedan lifted ...

And that’s a concern.” The preliminary crash test sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Research and Development Center also crashed a Tesla sedan into a guardrail, in which the sedan lifted ...