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Originally Posted by JulianEdgar
Well I for one really appreciate hearing from the professionals actually working on cars - especially ones like the Tesla. Since Rob has now left Tesla, and is very frank in his communications, I thought it quite interesting that he could see no easy aftermarket way of lowering the Model S drag.
As I said, the law of diminishing returns is starting to apply with these cars.
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Easy would be a slip-in, receiver-hitch, truncated boat-tail. Cd 0.18 would be a breeze.
A gap-filled, full-boat-tail trailer could take it to Cd 0.12, with extra batteries to boot! You'd be getting better mpg with the trailer , than without.