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Old 12-02-2019, 12:19 PM   #118 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RedDevil View Post
Tesla tested and basically designed the truck in the wind tunnel to optimize whatever could be done while having flat panels with hard edges. It would be weird if it were less than optimal within those constraints.

If Musk aims at getting it down to 0.30 you can bet the 0.48 of the model is high rather than low.
He doesn't aim to get .3, he said it isn't. 3 and won't be without serious changes. I don't think they spent more than a few minutes thinking about aerodynamics on this truck, it's a whole different thing than anything else they have ever designed.
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