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Do electric cars hit deer more?
I’m looking into buying my first electric car, but I’m concerned as someone who lives in a heavily wooded area that the quiet motor of the electric car could make me less noticeable to animals, and put me at higher risk for hitting wildlife. Is an electric car more likely to hit wildlife like deer?
Allison Stone · Updated on
Reviewed by Shannon Martin, Licensed Insurance Agent.
Overall, the probability of your likelihood to get into any kind of crash has too many complex factors to determine for sure whether you would be at higher risk when driving an
electric car
.That being said, the safety systems that are being installed in new electric cars tend to be much more advanced than that of your average conventional car.
In the event that you do end up in some sort of collision such as
hitting a deer
, you could even be safer than you would than if you were driving a car with a gasoline or diesel engine. A
crash test
conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and NHTSA for example, concluded that a Tesla Model S
performed just as well as its gas-powered equivalents in side-impact crashes and slightly better in front and rear-impact crashes. If you’re thinking about buying a new electric car, sign up with
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