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Old 01-05-2023, 04:59 PM   #80 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
If the battery has more capacity, the car can stay in 'electric-only' mode longer, and at 350% BSFC-e advantage, pushing the EPA CITY numbers up for sure.
If lower rolling resistance tires are now used, they'd help compensate for increased HWY aero drag.
Maybe Prius buyers don't put numbers under a microscope.
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* ' Forget it, all we want to see is conventional silhouettes: streamlining is dead. No one will ever buy it.' ( Re. Chrysler Airflow )
Walter P. Chrysler, Chrysler Corporation, 1937.
* ' We're not about to make the world's most aero vehicle that no one will buy.' ( Chrysler Aiflow )
Rick Aneiras, Vice President, Chrysler Group, Daimler-Chrysler, 2010.
* ' Look, it doesn't matter how great your aerodynamics are if only ten people buy the car.'
Suzy Cody, Director, General Motors Performance Division, 2018.
* ' the drag coefficient is not a significant criterion for customer decision making.' ( Re. GAC ENO.146 )
Jiri Opletel, CarNewsChina.com, May 26, 2021.
ah yes, chrysler, such a great car company and business. totally not like that company failed and is an outdated name haha.

i remember when people told elon musk that tesla making some of the lowest drag cars in the mass market would never work out or sell... wonder how thats working out
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