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Old 11-30-2019, 12:37 AM   #58 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by kach22i View Post
Make of this what you will, I have not verified anything just passing it on.

November 28, 2019
Tesla's Cybertruck Aerodynamics Do Flow Smoothly, as per a CFD Analysis
An aerospace engineer couldn't wait to find out, so he tested the truck's aerodynamics for himself.
https://interestingengineering.com/t...a-cfd-analysis






Video- Analysis in link.

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Fri November 29, 2019
Why Tesla's weird new Cybertruck could be a hit
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/29/persp...usk/index.html
I don't understand (apart from just Tesla fan clubbing) why this article gets so much play and the detailed in depth analysis with detailed specifics and exact results I posted a link to gets zero play. I'm no engineer but am enough of one to know I would be embarrassed to even remotely claim to be an engineer and then scratch together that chicken drawing laking any details and run it through the most basic program and then not even give specifics. If you look at the detailed analysis that was done, the basic limited separation on the roof shown in the chicken scratch model is the same, but put in some details, still leaving out side mirrors any kind of wiper setup, having perfectly flush side glass, etc, and still it spits a .48 Cd. Seems like that is a best case number and people are acting like somehow somebody is getting a .30 on the thing.
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