Is Hyundai's new electric minivan "Aerodynamic?" - Page 2 - Fuel Economy, Hypermiling, EcoModding News and Forum

aerohead · 03-13-2025, 10:30 AM

From my magazine articles, the journalists use the 'approach, breakover, and departure' clearance angles as a metric to 'define' an SUV.
My BOLT is described as a 'station wagon' instead of a 'crossover utility vehicle' because of these three angle criteria.
Air suspension could make the difference.

aerohead · 03-13-2025, 10:45 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj814rcfsmk

If the major platform design runs for 8-years, with a 'refresh' @ 4-years, from a 'styling' point of view, these plastic inserts could be changed every year, giving a 'new car look' for customers, without any alteration to the structural hardpoint attachment, allowing annual 'aesthetics' dynamism at a very low production cost penalty.
The body color arches will no doubt be experienced by buyers as a 'premium' feature, a 'value' proposition for the car's competing market price-point. Something KIA, Hyundai, Genesis is striving for globally.
Old timers may recognize a vestigial remnant design element of the air fences from the 1950s M-B 300 SL Coupe embossed atop the Hyundai's arches.

aerohead · 03-13-2025, 11:18 AM

* The front electronic sensor suite might be 'disabled' by the presence of the optical, radar, laser, 'obstruction', rendering all the collision-avoidance technology null and void.
* It would also move the car's center of pressure forwards, creating an aerodynamic understeer, where oversteer originally occurred, dangerous at high speed, high gust.
* The polar moment of inertia would also be affected, and in an emergency, make rapid steering corrections impossible.
* Due to the OEM Prandtl surfaces of discontinuity, there'd likely be zero aerodynamic advantage to to already-existing flow saturation.