You can't not mention the battery pack and the huge crumple zones. Yes they have bigger, more expensive cars, but their design is fundamentally much safer than

You can't not mention the battery pack and the huge crumple zones. Yes they have bigger, more expensive cars, but their design is fundamentally much safer than the standard gasoline designs. The battery is a huge pro-safety factor, it's very low, massive, and very rigid, plus it frees up space in the front/rear for crumple zones to be much larger.