Euro NCAP Crash & Safety Tests of Renault ZOE 2021

Euro NCAP performs a series of crash and safety tests on car models:
- a frontal impact test, 50% of the width of the car is striking an oncoming deformable barrier, also travelling at 50 km/h
- a frontal impact test, the car impacts a rigid full width barrier
- a side impact test, a mobile deformable barrier impacts the driver's door
- a pole test, the tested car is propelled sideways into a rigid pole.
A series of pedestrian tests are conducted with different impactors, adult and child head form, lower and upper leg form and whiplash tests are performed on a sled as well as AEB pedestrian and cyclist tests.
Active safety is tested based on the car’s equipment: autonomous emergency braking car-to-car scenarios, occupant status monitoring (including seatbelt reminders), lane support and speed assistance technologies.

All details on the Euro NCAP Website:

[anthonydelco]

Removing the head side airbag was the worst car manufacturer idea ever, bad buzz coming for Renault.

[flyc]

Was going to get one but heard about the side airbag removal so checked out EuroNCAP. Thanks to your testing you could have saved my life (and wallet!!).

[DaveDVideoMaker]

Renault needs to update the Zoe.
It’s been in production for almost a decade, and has no replacement.

[MrSegmentfault]

If you want to know what kind of company Renault is: when the Kwid body cometely collapsed in the failed the Ncap test in India, they decided to make it stronger. And indeed at the next test the body did not collapse. But when ncap engineers inspected the car they noticed that only the driver side was reinforced, because that is the side that is tested.
That car is now sold as Dacia Spring, but this time they improved the structure on both sides.

[edipires]

This is very bad news for Renault. The Zoé is one of the best selling EVs in Europe (if not the best) this will hurt further sales

[seancoombs]

This is madness. How could Renault not afford to keep the side head airbag in the Zoe when Dacia managed to keep it in the Spring! The literally based on the same platform and the Spring is cheaper!!

[whattheheck]

No side airbags? Are you kidding me, Renault?

December 8, 2021 2:57 am

[ThePragmatic]

This is a serious reputational damage for the Renault Zoe.

[FursAndAviation]

I love how the safety assist was 14% and they never showed the footage of this in action😂

[YokohamaRailway]

No side airbags
No AEB
There's no chance to save your life

[michelebicc]

Very strange. I thought it came with 6 airbags as standard in every EU market.

[danl]

Wow. Even my Golf from 2002 has side airbags.

[joshbacon]

Why was the head and throrax side airbag removed and replaced with a thorax-only airbag for the facelift, which is less effective than what it had before?

[joec]

Seems like an easy remedy is to equip it with a proper side impact/curtain system. Shame on Renault.

[marekbroucek]

Thank you, Renault. I'm glad to see how you made my "safe" car. Renault never more.

[Steambaland]

0 star ??? Holly cow, how could this car be allowed to be on the road ? wtf

[karlheinzschutte]

Happy to see this -
after having bought one in May this year.
Remembering back 50 years, my father bought a Renault and said only a few month later, that this was the first and the last one. History will repeat

[ccrazeck]

Holy shit I cant believe Dacia Spring did better

[matthieumarchal]

Hard for zoé. Euroncap straigthen their test each 2 years, so the initial test result of 2015 must be less now. But here, seems that some components are worst than before.
And it's not because it's not a suv. Last clio is one of the best euroncap vehicle.

[costipredoiu]

Zoe is very expensive. It costs over 30000€! And it got 0 stars? I didn't expected that. I expected to be a lot safer. The Renault's safety reputation is from good to bad... :(