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Old 06-21-2019, 10:07 AM   #36 (permalink)
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Last night I came across a paper in Sustainable Vehicle Technologies: Driving the Green Agenda (2012) by a Tata Motors engineer involved in this study. In addition to much more information on the project, they also took the car to the Soufflerie 2A aeroacoustic tunnel in Paris to test the various configurations with a moving ground. Here's what they report:

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