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Old 09-11-2012, 09:31 PM   #17 (permalink)
Diesel_Dave
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It's all speed dependent. I found these graphs from a Cummins white paper. It's geared towards semi trucks, but it illustrates the principle.

Here's the first plot. It shows where the power goes vs vehicle speed:
The red portion is the power required to overcome the aero drag. Obviously, the % benefit you're going to see is dependent on the vehicle speed.

This second plot (from the same white paper) shows % mpg benefit vs % aero improvement for different duty cycles:
Note that a low speed duty cycle (inter-city) shows very limited benefit from aero aids vs a high speed duty cycle (interstate) show substantial mpg benefits.
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