Introduction.- Review of EV Safety in Crash Conditions.- New Winding-based Discharge Strategy for EV Powertrains with Extreme Parameters.- Hybrid DC-Bus Capacitor Discharge Strategy for EV Powertrains with Highly Extreme Parameters.- Fault-Tolerant Winding-based DC-Bus Capacitor Discharge Strategy.- Winding-based Discharge Technique Selection Rules based on Parametric Analysis.- Conclusions and Future Work.