Top marks! BYD Dolphin EV gets 5-star ANCAP crash safety rating

The Australian New Car Assessment Programme (ANCAP) has tested the BYD Dolphin, giving the electric vehicle (EV) a 5-star safety rating. 

The ANCAP stays close to the Euro NCAP program in how it tests vehicles and its assessment process. There are four categories: adult occupant protection, child occupant protection, vulnerable road users and safety assist.

Each of these categories comes with corresponding points, which total 170. 

The EV is also available in the Philippines in a similar specification to what they tested for the Australian market. It gives us a general idea of how the Dolphin will perform in the event of a crash.

Test results

For its crash test results, the BYD Dolphin got a 35.81 out of 40 (89 percent) for the adult occupant protection category.

While the score was high, the testing body noticed it had a marginal level of protection for the driver’s chest in a frontal offset collision. 

Meanwhile, the EV got 42.43 out of 49 (86 percent), which is still a good score considering it got above 80 percent.

For the vulnerable road user protection category, the Dolphin scored 53.64 out of 63 (85 percent), which is not bad, but it could be higher. The score was because of the car’s marginal and poor results in protecting the pedestrian’s head from hitting the windshield of the front pillars.

Finally, for the safety assist category, it scored 14.04 out of 18 (77 percent), its lowest score yet. However, the vehicle has advanced driver-assist features that make it easier to control and drive.

In total, it got 145.92 out of a possible 170 points, qualifying it for a 5-star safety rating. It shows that BYD put in the work in designing one of its most affordable EVs to be safe.

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