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JOURNAL
CRASH TESTING
REAL-WORLD
CRASH TEST
CONFIRMS STRUCTURAL
STABILITY AND INTEGRITY
OF BATTERY
Accident research is “integrated into development from the very start” say
Mercedes-Benz, with real-world crash tests con昀椀rming the structural stability and
integrity of the eActros 600 battery.
he battery-electric
Mercedes-Benz eActros
600 for long-distance
transport combines
ef昀椀ciency and
sustainability with the highest
standards of active and passive safety.
Early on in the development phase,
Mercedes-Benz Trucks’ internal
accident research team evaluated
existing real-world accident data and
applied it speci昀椀cally to the vehicle’s
design elements. The objective was to
consistently tailor protective measures
to typical heavy-duty accident
scenarios.
As part of one of several real-world
crash tests in Neumünster,
Schleswig-Holstein, the eActros 600
was subjected to a side impact of the
kind that can occur in serious road
accidents. The test result: Despite the
considerable force exerted, the entire
high-voltage battery system and all
electrical components remained intact.
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“From the outset, our aim was to
make no compromises when it came
to vehicle safety,” said Felix Pietler,
passive safety developer at
Mercedes-Benz Trucks. “With
electric drives in particular, it is not
only important to ensure passenger
protection – measures to protect
the immediate surroundings are also
crucial.”
The reinforced cab and de昀椀ned energy
absorption zones in the front end of
the vehicle dissipate impact forces in
frontal collision scenarios in a targeted
manner via crash-optimized structures.
With regard to side impact scenarios,
the latest test con昀椀rmed that the
high-voltage battery modules remained
intact and the housing showed no
critical deformations thanks to a frame
architecture specially developed for
