New Car Assessment Program
New Car Assessment Program Tests
The New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) is a government-backed consumer focused initiative. Whereby independent vehicle crash test laboratories conduct crash tests, per official test protocols, on production vehicles. Test data, is then condensed into an easy-to-understand format that allows consumers to easily compare vehicle safety ratings.
This program was developed and implemented first in the United States by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) division in 1979. Based on the merits of this first program, it was then adopted in Europe (Euro NCAP) in 1997. Today, similar programs are now in place in Australia and New Zealand (ANCAP), in Japan (JNCAP), in Korea (KNCAP), in China (C-NCAP), in Latin America (Latin NCAP) and in Southeast Asia (ASEAN NCAP).
Official U.S. NCAP
Calspan has been conducting the official U.S. NCAP Full Frontal, Side Moving Deformable Barrier and the Side Pole crash tests for the NHTSA since the program's inception.
Optional U.S. NCAP
Calspan also conducts the official Optional NCAP Tests for OEMs once an OEM has submitted to the NHTSA evidence of a vehicle change improves the NCAP test results of such vehicle.
International NCAP
Calspan also has experience conducting crash tests to other NCAP protocols, including EuroNCAP and Latin NCAP in support of new vehicle development.
U.S. NCAP Tests Conducted at Calspan
- 56 km/h Flat Frontal with an HIII 50th and a HIII 5th
- 32 km/h Side Pole with a SID-IIs
- 62 km/h Side MDB with a ES-2re and a SID-IIs
- Calspan also conducts out of position (OoP/TWG) static deployment tests
"Under Development" U.S. NCAP Tests Conducted at Calspan
- 56 km/h Flat Frontal with a THOR 50th and two HIII 5ths
- 32 km/h Side Pole with WorldSID 50th (RibEYE)
- 90 km/h Frontal Oblique using the OMDB and two THOR 50ths
- 62 km/h Side MDB with a WorldSID 50th (RibEYE) and a SID-IIs
Euro NCAP Tests Conducted at Calspan
- 50 km/h Flat Frontal with two HIII 5ths
- 50 km/h Flat Frontal with three HIII 5ths
- 32 km/h Side Pole with a WorldSID 50th (IR-TRACC)
- 50 km/h MPDB with a THOR 50th, a HIII 50th, a Q6 and a Q10
- 60 km/h Side MDB with a WorldSID 50th (IR-TRACC), a Q6 and a Q10
Latin NCAP Tests Conducted at Calspan
- 50 km/h Side MDB with a ES-2, a Q1.5 and a Q3
- 64 km/h 40% ODB with two HIII 50ths, a Q1.5 and a Q3
- 29 km/h Side Pole with ES-2
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