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Originally Posted by Ecky
That particular research paper discussed the difference between an air outlet in front of vs behind an engine. However, if you observe highly aerodynamic vehicles, or literally any modern vehicle, manufacturers do neither. They're all wheel well outlets. The VW XL1, for example, has an air intake under the front, and exhausts out the wheel wells. All Tesla vehicles exhaust through the wheel wells. The Mercedes A Class, which has a Cd of 0.22, exhausts through the wheel wells.
I'm not ambivalent toward academic research papers, but while the information in the paper is interesting, it's largely irrelevant, because neither option compared is generally preferable to the alternatives. I read academic articles frequently - frequently enough to know they are usually targeting something very specific, and this is not the same as a broad overview or meta analysis.
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Ok!
thx.
So that grille is the VW's inlet!? I NB its does seem to have a front inlet?
I NB the fairing on the front suspension too.
I see the Tesla even has plastic fairing doodats on the rear suspension!
https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY...plastic_metal/