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Old 01-23-2023, 02:53 PM   #4121 (permalink)
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The Mercedes EQXX has a Cd of 0.17. It doesn't have rear wheel skirts - but the rear wheel track is a whopping 50mm narrower than the front track. So, a tiny drop, actually.


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The Aptera Delta vehicle has been revealed - Cd is 0.13, I believe?



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Old 01-23-2023, 03:44 PM   #4123 (permalink)
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0.17? Imagine what it could do with fender skirts.

It looks like the concept car's retractable box cavity has been reduced to the diffuser.
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Old 01-24-2023, 11:03 PM   #4124 (permalink)
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0.17? Imagine what it could do with fender skirts.

It looks like the concept car's retractable box cavity has been reduced to the diffuser.
I suspect if both front and rear wheels had skirts, Cd value would approach 0.12.
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Fineness ratio? We don' need no stinkin' fineness ratio!



A one ton car with two tons of downforce at 0MPH?
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0.17? Imagine what it could do with fender skirts.

It looks like the concept car's retractable box cavity has been reduced to the diffuser.
They said their engineer team wasn’t allowed to do rear wheel skirts. So that’s why the wheels are big, the tires are flush with the flat hubcaps, the trailing edge is smaller, and wheel arches are small. They claimed in some video that they did such a good job, that wheel skirts wouldn’t have made a diff. They also claimed they have the lowest drag side mirrors ever made too and that it barely even affects their total overall drag

So by guessing from what the engineers said, doing a full fender skirt and removing mirrors would only drop the cd by 0.005
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At 3:44 in the video at Permalink #4125 above they show a rear view mirror on a production car, allegedly lifted from F1, that uses a converging duct to accelerate that mirror's wake.
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'Cd 0.12'

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I suspect if both front and rear wheels had skirts, Cd value would approach 0.12.
I'm guestimating that she'd need 52" of boat tail added, and a 'slower' diffuser along with full skirts to get there.
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They said their engineer team wasn’t allowed to do rear wheel skirts. So that’s why the wheels are big, the tires are flush with the flat hubcaps, the trailing edge is smaller, and wheel arches are small. They claimed in some video that they did such a good job, that wheel skirts wouldn’t have made a diff. They also claimed they have the lowest drag side mirrors ever made too and that it barely even affects their total overall drag

So by guessing from what the engineers said, doing a full fender skirt and removing mirrors would only drop the cd by 0.005
Do you have a link to the video?
I'd like to watch that. Thanks!
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Can’t remember. I watched too many videos on it lol. But engineering explained just did a video this week on the car. He’s probably the most legit and scientific channel on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/8kY7BGGtDeY

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