Preliminary test crashes indicate the nation's guardrail system can't handle heavy electric vehicles
Under an overcast sky last fall, engineers with a University of Nebraska road safety facility watched as a electric-powered pickup truck hurtled toward a guardrail installed on the facility's testing ground on the edge of the local municipal airport.
The test crash was to see how the guardrail — the same type found along tens of thousands of miles of roadway in the — would hold up against electric vehicles that can weigh thousands of pounds more than the average
