LEAF Aero Style Concept

[ai_vin]

Yes it's a cool looking car, unfortunately when a car company does up an "Aero Style Concept" car they always go for ground effects and glitz. Sometimes that can translate into lower CdA but most of the time the effort is just wasted as far as ecomodders are concerned.

Question for the group; "can we do better?"

[d0sitmatr]

Originally Posted by Rokeby

The weirdo headlights split the air flow headed towards the side mirrors.
Less wind noise is reported from the mirrors... so probably aero +:
Nissan Leaf Alternative to Side Mirror Delete

Agree on wheel skirts... but I think most consumers see them as '50s retro.

The undertray/belly pan is essentially flat:

good to know, I thought there must be a functional reason for the headlamps being that way, and now I know

Originally Posted by ai_vin

Question for the group; "can we do better?"

absolutely, but to do better *and* make it consumer friendly to those who arent into serious ecomodding... that would be the trick !

[silverinsight2]

Seperated at birth??

[cfg83]

silverinsight2 -

Ha ha, I agree. I think it should be used as a delivery vehicle by a cajun-catfish restaurant and "dressed" appropriately.

The more I look at the catfish, I think you could make a decent car design out of it. The hood merges with the windshield quite nicely.

CarloSW2

[d0sitmatr]

Originally Posted by cfg83

silverinsight2 -

Ha ha, I agree. I think it should be used as a delivery vehicle by a cajun-catfish restaurant and "dressed" appropriately.

The more I look at the catfish, I think you could make a decent car design out of it. The hood merges with the windshield quite nicely.

CarloSW2

hahahaha
Ive always called the Miata a fish car too

[teknomage2012]

let the tweeking begin
I recently aquired a 2012 leaf sl
my first mod is to add a capstone c30 turbine burning wood pellets on a hitch deck for cross country travel.
along with wheel covers and other little tweeks, the nice thing is nissan has already done a real good job.

[freebeard]

my first mod is to add a capstone c30 turbine burning wood pellets on a hitch deck for cross country travel.

I can't 'weight' to see the pictures of that.

[drees]

Originally Posted by Rokeby

Grill is air inlet for battery temp management.

The battery is passively cooled on the LEAF. A bit of air can flow around the battery, but it is otherwise sealed.

The grill is for HVAC and motor/PEM cooling.

The LEAF is not very aerodynamic and could be a lot better with a few tweaks.

[aerohead]

The LEAF NISMO race car was credited with Cd 0.25

Has anyone thrown around any numbers for the new concept?

[NeilBlanchard]

I much prefer the Renault Eolab at Cd 0.235 in it "base" mode, and 0.227 with its three active elements deployed.

http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...0-a-30000.html