The Punch EV, the company’s most recent 5-star vehicle, is yet another feather in Tata’s cap. The Punch EV has joined the ranks of cars that are safe for their occupants, along with the Nexon, Harrier, and Safari, with the most recent release of the Bharat NCAP evaluations.
Regarding adult protection, the Tata Punch EV received 31.46 out of 32 points, and for kid protection, it received 45 out of 49 points. The Punch EV received 15.71 points out of 16 in the frontal offset deformable barrier test and 15.74 points out of 16 in the side movable deformable barrier test.
Tata Punch and Nexon Crash Test
It’s important to remember that the highest-spec Empowered+ S Long Range Tata Punch model was used for testing. However, because all Tata Punch EV models include six airbags as standard equipment, the safety rating is the same for all of them. An in-house star-rating system for crash-testing automobiles has been implemented by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
Vehicle safety in a collision will be indicated by the system through a star rating system ranging from one to five. This voluntary rating system, also known as BNCAP, went into effect on October 1, 2023.
Cars nominated voluntarily by automakers will be subjected to crash testing under BNCAP, following the guidelines provided in the soon-to-be-published Automotive Industry Standard 197.
The plan is applicable to passenger cars with a gross vehicle weight of no more than 3,500 kg and up to eight seats, including the driver’s seat. We will test each variant’s basic model only.
After being assessed on three criteria, cars are rated one through five stars: AOP, COP, and any available safety assistance technology.
The first two parameters are established by means of three different tests: the frontal offset test, in which a car is driven into a deformable barrier at 64 kph with a 40 percent overlap, mimicking a head-on collision; other tests include the side impact test, which is conducted at 50 kph, and the pole side impact test, which is conducted at 29 kph, in which a car is driven sideways into a rigid pole. The testing procedures that BNCAP has implemented are based on Global NCAP, a project of the UK-based non-governmental organisation Towards Zero Foundation.
Gadkari underlined during the program’s inception in August of last year that BNCAP will be essential to turning India into the world’s automotive powerhouse and to achieving self-sufficiency in the country’s automotive sector.
The number of traffic accidents in India is concerningly increasing, even with government spending in infrastructure.
