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C-NCAP
The C-NCAP (Chinese: 中国新车评价规程) is a Chinese car safety assessment program. It is primarily modeled after safety standards established by Euro NCAP and is run by the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (Chinese: 中国汽车技术研究中心). The C-NCAP was first run in 2006 and has been updated every three years since, with new revisions for 2009, 2012, 2015, 2018, 2021 and 2024.
The C-NCAP consists of a series of safety tests, including real, simulated and virtual vehicle impact tests, static evaluation of vehicle design, and performance testing of vehicle active safety systems.
The C-NCAP contains four mandatory and one optional crash tests that involve fully built production vehicles impacting barriers.
The first is a full-width perpendicular frontal impact against a non-deformable solid barrier which the vehicle is towed into at 55 km/h (34 mph), which is designed to simulate crashing a vehicle straight into a solid wall. This test specification is similar to NHTSA standards and is at slightly higher speed than the Euro NCAP.
A 50% overlap frontal impact test against a wheeled deformable barrier platform, which is designed to simulate a head-on collision with another vehicle across a median line, where only the driver's side half of the vehicles' front contact. Both the test vehicle and 1,400 kg (3,090 lb) automobile-shaped four-wheeled barrier platform travel at 50 km/h (31 mph) in opposite directions towards each other during the test; the deformable barrier is designed to simulate a vehicle's crumple zone. This test is identical to the one in the Euro NCAP; in the US, the NHTSA lacks a similar test, while the IIHS uses static barriers for their partial overlap impact tests.
The side impact test against a wheeled deformable barrier platform is designed to simulate a broadside collision where a vehicle perpendicularly impacts the doors of the vehicle. The barrier platform, which again has a deformable barrier simulating a vehicle's crumple zone, now weighs 1,700 kg (3,750 lb) and impacts the vehicle at 60 km/h (37 mph) and is centered 200 mm (7.9 in) behind the front passenger seat R-point. This test is conducted at a similar speed to the Euro NCAP and American organizations, but the barrier platform is at least 300 kg (660 lb) heavier than all but the IIHS test protocol, which is 200 kg (440 lb) higher.
The side impact test against a stationary solid 10-inch (254 mm) diameter cylinder, designed to simulate a vehicle that loses control and slides into a roadside pole, such as a street lamp or utility pole. The vehicle is loaded onto a sled at a 75-degree angle to the direction of impact, and the cylinder is aligned with the test dummy's head; the sled then pulls the vehicle into the cylinder at 32 km/h (20 mph). This test is comparable to the Euro NCAP and NHTSA protocols.
The bottom scraping test against a 150-millimetre (5.91 in) diameter solid hemispherical barrier, which simulates a vehicle running over large objects. The test is only applied to NEVs (plug-in battery electric vehicles) with externally mounted underbody battery packs. The first test is done to test potentially vulnerable areas along the battery pack's front edge, such as cooling system and wiring outlets; if there are none, this test is skipped and only the second test is done. The spherical barrier is set so the top is 30 millimetres (1.2 in) higher than the bottom of the battery pack and the vehicle is then aligned to center a vulnerable area, and then pulled over the barrier at 30 km/h (19 mph). The second test involves mounting the battery pack and accessories onto a wheeled platform tilted upwards at a 3-degree angle, then pulling the platform over the barrier at 20 km/h (12 mph), again aimed at vulnerable front edge locations. The tests are repeated for each potential weak spot on the battery pack.
C-NCAP
The C-NCAP (Chinese: 中国新车评价规程) is a Chinese car safety assessment program. It is primarily modeled after safety standards established by Euro NCAP and is run by the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (Chinese: 中国汽车技术研究中心). The C-NCAP was first run in 2006 and has been updated every three years since, with new revisions for 2009, 2012, 2015, 2018, 2021 and 2024.
The C-NCAP consists of a series of safety tests, including real, simulated and virtual vehicle impact tests, static evaluation of vehicle design, and performance testing of vehicle active safety systems.
The C-NCAP contains four mandatory and one optional crash tests that involve fully built production vehicles impacting barriers.
The first is a full-width perpendicular frontal impact against a non-deformable solid barrier which the vehicle is towed into at 55 km/h (34 mph), which is designed to simulate crashing a vehicle straight into a solid wall. This test specification is similar to NHTSA standards and is at slightly higher speed than the Euro NCAP.
A 50% overlap frontal impact test against a wheeled deformable barrier platform, which is designed to simulate a head-on collision with another vehicle across a median line, where only the driver's side half of the vehicles' front contact. Both the test vehicle and 1,400 kg (3,090 lb) automobile-shaped four-wheeled barrier platform travel at 50 km/h (31 mph) in opposite directions towards each other during the test; the deformable barrier is designed to simulate a vehicle's crumple zone. This test is identical to the one in the Euro NCAP; in the US, the NHTSA lacks a similar test, while the IIHS uses static barriers for their partial overlap impact tests.
The side impact test against a wheeled deformable barrier platform is designed to simulate a broadside collision where a vehicle perpendicularly impacts the doors of the vehicle. The barrier platform, which again has a deformable barrier simulating a vehicle's crumple zone, now weighs 1,700 kg (3,750 lb) and impacts the vehicle at 60 km/h (37 mph) and is centered 200 mm (7.9 in) behind the front passenger seat R-point. This test is conducted at a similar speed to the Euro NCAP and American organizations, but the barrier platform is at least 300 kg (660 lb) heavier than all but the IIHS test protocol, which is 200 kg (440 lb) higher.
The side impact test against a stationary solid 10-inch (254 mm) diameter cylinder, designed to simulate a vehicle that loses control and slides into a roadside pole, such as a street lamp or utility pole. The vehicle is loaded onto a sled at a 75-degree angle to the direction of impact, and the cylinder is aligned with the test dummy's head; the sled then pulls the vehicle into the cylinder at 32 km/h (20 mph). This test is comparable to the Euro NCAP and NHTSA protocols.
The bottom scraping test against a 150-millimetre (5.91 in) diameter solid hemispherical barrier, which simulates a vehicle running over large objects. The test is only applied to NEVs (plug-in battery electric vehicles) with externally mounted underbody battery packs. The first test is done to test potentially vulnerable areas along the battery pack's front edge, such as cooling system and wiring outlets; if there are none, this test is skipped and only the second test is done. The spherical barrier is set so the top is 30 millimetres (1.2 in) higher than the bottom of the battery pack and the vehicle is then aligned to center a vulnerable area, and then pulled over the barrier at 30 km/h (19 mph). The second test involves mounting the battery pack and accessories onto a wheeled platform tilted upwards at a 3-degree angle, then pulling the platform over the barrier at 20 km/h (12 mph), again aimed at vulnerable front edge locations. The tests are repeated for each potential weak spot on the battery pack.