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Old 11-06-2018, 12:08 PM   #4 (permalink)
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"The design is one of pure, streamlined elegance. Born out of the single-minded vision to create the most aerodynamically efficient car ever, there is an uninterrupted flow of air from nose to tail." Beautiful car. It is interesting that they have designed fixed carbon fiber wheel covers for the front wheels but nothing was done to smooth airflow over the the rear wheels. Any guesses why not?
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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