Designing electric cars for safety

The latest generation of electric vehicle makers talk less about safety than one would have thought a couple of years ago. Many are trying to tackle the safety EV battery issue with design, technology...and rhetoric. Long before Tesla’s Roadster, GM’s Volt or Nissan’s LEAF emerged on the market, the idea of stringing laptop batteries together to power a sports car, or smashing a battery-powered car in a high impact crash, generated a lot of discussion -- and fear. So writes Earth2Tech's Katie Fehrenbacher in an interesting bit of commentary from the Detroit Auto Show, found at Reuters.com. Worth reading, because when it comes to EVs -- as we've seen in the news -- safety in the face of untested technology does indeed matter.