MINI Cooper Electrical wins Euro NCAP “Finest in Class” 2025

The absolutely electrical MINI Cooper has added a second security headline in 2025. After securing a five-star Euro NCAP score in March 2025, the mannequin has now been named Euro NCAP “Finest in Class for Most secure Metropolis & Supermini of the Yr 2025.”

What Euro NCAP examined and what the scores imply

Euro NCAP’s March 2025 crash-test publication lists the examined mannequin because the MINI Cooper E, a 3-door hatchback within the Metropolis and Supermini class, with a kerb weight of 1621 kg. Euro NCAP notes the score applies from a VIN vary protecting all Cooper E.

The revealed class scores for the MINI Cooper Electrical line in that take a look at cycle are:

• 89% Grownup Occupant
• 87% Little one Occupant
• 77% Susceptible Highway Customers
• 79% Security Help

Euro NCAP experiences the passenger compartment remained steady within the frontal offset take a look at, with dummy readings indicating good safety of knees and femurs for each entrance occupants. In aspect impression testing—together with the extra extreme pole take a look at—Euro NCAP information good safety throughout vital physique areas and full factors in these aspect assessments. It additionally flags marginal management of far-side tour (motion towards the struck aspect in far-side impacts), whereas noting the automotive has a countermeasure to mitigate occupant-to-occupant accidents.

For rear impacts, Euro NCAP states assessments of the entrance seats and head restraints confirmed good whiplash safety, and its geometric evaluation indicated good whiplash safety within the rear seats as nicely.

Euro NCAP additionally lists post-crash and rescue-related provisions together with an ISO-compliant rescue sheet, superior eCall, multi-collision braking, and a submergence verify marked compliant; it says MINI demonstrated that doorways and home windows can be openable to assist occupant escape in a submergence state of affairs.

Little one occupant: excessive crash-test efficiency, with notes on rear-seat packaging

Euro NCAP’s child-occupant testing references restraints utilized in its assessments: a Britax Römer KidFix i-Dimension for the 6-year-old dummy and an Osann Up for the 10-year-old dummy. It experiences that, as a result of the MINI Cooper E has restricted rear-seat house and commonplace little one dummies’ legs are rigid, Euro NCAP makes use of extra assessments to evaluate little one safety; these assessments indicated good or sufficient safety for vital physique areas in each frontal offset and aspect barrier assessments.

Euro NCAP additionally notes the entrance passenger airbag may be disabled to permit a rearward-facing little one restraint in that seat, and that the system offers clear standing info to the motive force. It provides that little one presence detection isn’t commonplace on the Cooper E.

Susceptible street customers: sturdy mitigation scores, with particular deductions

In its weak street consumer part, Euro NCAP experiences that pelvis, femur, and knee/tibia safety scored strongly, however that head safety was largely marginal or sufficient, with poor ends in areas together with the stiff windscreen pillars and the bottom/prime of the display screen.

On lively security for pedestrians and cyclists, Euro NCAP information:

• VRU Affect Safety: 25.8 / 36 factors
• VRU Affect Mitigation: 23.2 / 27 factors
• AEB Pedestrian: 6.9 / 9 factors
• AEB Bike owner: 7.8 / 8 factors

It additionally notes that bike owner “dooring” safety scored no factors as a result of the characteristic isn’t on by default, whereas the system’s response to motorcyclists achieved most factors within the related assessments.

Security help: lane assist and AEB efficiency headline the driver-assist outcomes

Euro NCAP’s Security Help breakdown consists of Lane Assist: 3.0 / 3 factors and AEB Automotive-to-Automotive: 8.1 / 9 factors. The lane system is described as lane departure warning with lively return (LKA and ELK) operational from 60 km/h, whereas the ahead collision warning with brake intervention is listed as operational from 5 km/h utilizing a digicam.

Euro NCAP additionally experiences that the automotive’s oblique driver standing monitoring detects fatigue however not distraction, and that the clever pace limiter isn’t default ON (with the speed-limit help utilizing digicam and map assist).

Total, the protection rankings present a 89 p.c in occupant safety, 87 p.c in little one security, and 79 p.c in security help techniques.