This popular electric car scored zero stars in crash test

The Renault Zoe electric subcompact received zero stars in the latest round of European NCAP crash testing, becoming just the third car to ever flunk the test.

The Zoe had previously earned a five-star rating in 2013 shortly after it was introduced to the market, but the testing regimen has changed in the years since.

The head of NCAP suggested that the push to produces electric cars may be having a negative effect on safety efforts.

"Renault was once synonymous with safety," Euro NCAP secretary general Michiel van Ratingen said in a statement issued to Reuters. "But these disappointing results for the ZOE and the Dacia Spring show that safety has now become collateral damage in the group's transition to electric cars."