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Originally Posted by Xist
How long would a 1996 Accord made to look like this be?  |
For Gilkison's up-coming blog at EV World we set the max. roof camber point over the driver's head and ran the AST from there.The Accord would have active suspension which would lower the car "into the weeds" on the interstate,thereby picking up some effective fineness ratio benefit not exhibited in the 'static' urban metrics.I haven't run the numbers.Low drag is the driver of the design.It will be what it is.
The length will be dynamic though,as with Koenig-Fachsenfeld's patented design for an extensible tail from 1936.
Looking at the Cd 0.137 Ford Probe-V of 1985,you can see how a little 'tail' would get you into Cd 0.125 territory.
SAAB has already done a similar project in 1956.Their 33 bhp 93 had a top speed of 75 mph.Their chief test engineer constructed a 'pre-Sonnett' 2-place streamlined body for the 93's mechanicals and this car achieved 110 mph.The efficiency of the higher top speed body would be reflected at the gas pump as Hucho intimates in his book.
This is mostly how the 1993 EV-1 made it to 183 mph.Saturn might have co-produced a gasoline version of the EV-1 rolling down the same assembly line.Pity!