A quartet of new or updated models, including the stretched version of Australia’s best-selling electric vehicle (EV) has been awarded by independent auto safety authority ANCAP for five-star safety ratings.
The BYD Seal 6, MG 4 EV Urban, Skoda Octavia and Tesla Model Y L all received five-star ratings based on 2023-25 testing criteria, not the new 2026 criteria.
This is the new six-seat version of the Model Y mid size electric SUV, which narrowly remains best-selling EV Down Under’s most popular model — The Tesla Model L (againsited by an adult occupant protection rating) and child safety rating for “84 per cent,” 86 percent on road user protection, 92 per percent on safety aid.
According to ANCAP, its overall five-star rating is based on testing of the related Model Y (although it has been tested further and tests conducted to ensure results were valid for the longer-wheelbase variant).
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The term “difficulties” were referred to as having child restraint installation in second-row seats (where most of the Restrainteds could not be properly installed due to limitations with top–toether routing) it warns.
Rearward-facing and forward-facing convertible child restraints also couldn’t be easily installed using the ISOFIX anchorages in the third row.
Y L’s safety report is a sea of green, with predominately ‘Good’ ratings for the various safety tests. But ANCAP noted that driver chest protection was ‘Adequate, in the frontal offset crash test and full-width frontals test, as well as ‘Marginal’ in an oblique pole test.
In the BYD Seal 6 sedan and wagon, a parent-protection rating of 90 per cent for child protection, an 80 percent safety/84 Per cent risky road user protection rating on its vehicles (86per cent) and 84 per Cent safety assist rating was given to the vehicle’s adult occupant protection.
The safety report cites plenty of Good ratings as with the Model Y L, but in the frontal offset test protection of the driver’s chest and lower legs was Adequate only for A-level test protect.
The MG 4 EV Urban was given an adult occupant protection rating of 87 per cent, 86 percent child occupy protection and 85 per Cent for vulnerable road users protection; 80 per percent for safety aid.
In the frontal offset test, ANCAP found Adequate protection for the driver’s chest and upper legs; noted that structures in the dashboard were “a potential source of injury for his driver.”
The safety authority also noted that the seatbelt for the rear passenger allowed “excessive forward movement” in the full-width frontal test, with protection of the head rated Marginal.
Lastly, the Skoda Octavia was reconsidered and still holds its five-star rating for vehicles built from July 2025 (which sold in March 2026).
The hatch and wagon range was given an 85 per cent adult occupant protection rating, 81 percent child occupy protection ratings, 80 per percent road user protection (81 Per cent) safety aid rating of 82 per Cent.
| Model | Adult occupant protection | Child occupant protection | Vulnerable road user protection | Safety assist |
| — | — | — | — | — |
| BYD Seal 6 | 92% | 90% | 84% | 84% |
| MG 4 EV Urban | 87% | 86% | 85% | 82% |
| Skoda Octavia | 85% | 81% | 81% | 82% |
| Tesla Model Y L | 91% | 84% | 86% | 92% |
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