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Old 12-31-2011, 03:34 PM   #10 (permalink)
ChazInMT
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Yer cool HondaGuy, Thanks for putting this in the "Aerodynamics" section.

Mention has been made of the wheels being non pizza pan style. Something to keep in mind, the wheel hubs are the motors for this car, it is direct drive. So I imagine they need some way to get the heat out of the motors and venting through the wheels is the way to go. Probably a whole career could be made out of designing a wheel that was aero efficient and still moved air to cool the direct drive motor.
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