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> it boasts the lowest ‘Cd’ (co-efficient of drag) of any car ever built Solar cars supposedly get a hair below 0.1 (Sunswift 7 is apparently at 0.095, the wik
by masklinn 3y ago
> it boasts the lowest ‘Cd’ (co-efficient of drag) of any car ever built
Solar cars supposedly get a hair below 0.1 (Sunswift 7 is apparently at 0.095, the wiki claims Aurora is also there though it provides no source).
This makes the claim of 0.12 rather hard to believe unless they’re talking about completely different concepts.
- yobbo 3y ago"Sunswift 7" doesn't look completely different. In height and volume, they could be very similar.
- pedrocr 3y agoTotal drag is the coefficient multiplied by the frontal area. It may have a very good coefficient but with a much larger area and thus much more total drag.
- masklinn 3y agoAh TIL, that would make sense.