Tesla Model 3 awarded five-star safety rating

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has put the rear-wheel-drive version of the Tesla Model 3 through the agency’s typical battery of crash tests, and the all-electric sedan came out the other side with a five-star rating across the board.

That top rating falls in line with the NHTSA test results of Tesla’s previous cars, which all earned top marks. The Model X SUV received five stars in all categories and subcategories in 2017, and the Model S nabbed a seemingly impossible rating of 5.4 stars back in 2013 — that is, until the safety agency decided to revise its guidelines so that automakers couldn’t boast better-than-possible safety ratings.

The crash test’s subcategories include frontal, side, and rollover…

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