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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
There is room to improve on the weigh of the mod 3.
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Volvo published an article about EV performance vs vehicle mass.
Their conclusion was,that there exists a 'Goldilocks' mass for a given EV,at which a lighter,or heavier vehicle would be less efficient.
It has to do with regenerative braking,inertial/momentum-kinetic energy recovery,versus mass-acceleration penalty.
So,traditional weight savings kinda goes out the window,and you could actually hurt the Model-3 with lightening.But never with streamlining.