The Rivian R1T is the primary electrical pickup truck ever run via the Insurance coverage Institute for Freeway Security (IIHS) testing routine—and it obtained excessive marks.

The IIHS introduced on Friday that the R1T had earned its highest Prime Security Choose+ security award. The award, which applies to 2022 and 2023 R1T fashions, encompasses crash-test scores and scores for safety-related options like headlights and crash-prevention tech.

To obtain a Prime Security Choose+ award, automobiles should earn the highest “Good” rating in all six IIHS crash-test classes, together with driver- and passenger-side small-overlap entrance, reasonable overlap entrance, authentic facet, roof power, and head restraint checks.

2022 Rivian R1T IIHS crash testing

Prime Security Choose+ standing means the R1T additionally earned excessive scores for its commonplace headlights and front-crash prevention system. All trims include “Good”-rated LED projector headlights and a front-crash prevention system that earned the best “Superior” ranking in each vehicle-to-vehicle and daytime vehicle-to-pedestrian checks.

The Rivian R1T was one in all our finalists final yr for Finest Automotive To Purchase. We discovered it practically faultless in its mission as a private electrical truck. These IIHS security scores are one other feather in Rivian’s cap, though the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA) hasn’t printed security scores for the R1T, and neither the IIHS nor the NHTSA has performed so for the associated Rivian R1S SUV. 

There are actually a number of EVs on the IIHS Prime Security Choose+ listing, together with the Tesla Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y, Kia EV6, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Volkswagen ID.4, and Audi This fall E-Tron, amongst others. No different electrical pickups have made the listing so far, although, and in reality the Toyota Tundra was the one different pickup of any sort named a Prime Security Choose+ for 2022.

Whereas quite a lot of EVs have been given prime security scores, there may be rising concern of the higher weight of EVs, and what that may imply in collisions with lighter and/or older internal-combustion automobiles. These issues are at an excessive in the 9,000-pound GMC Hummer EV, which has additionally arrived previously yr.