SONY HONDA AFEELA

[aerohead]

Another 'fastback' BEV on the way. No info on aero yet.
https://insideevs.com/news/629518/af...onda-ev-brand/
Looking at the rear hatch, there's a cut line ahead of the trailing edge, as if it's defining the beginning of a pop-up rear spoiler.
One side-elevation photograph is taken far enough away, as to render close to 'true-length' dimensions, as in a blueprint. I'm going to print it, and do a contour comparison. A make-or-break for low Cd.
Honda's done really low drag in it's past, and it will be interesting to see how far their 'committee ' allowed the wind tunnel / CFD team to go.
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I copied and enlarged the photo. Best I can tell, Honda used W. Hucho's 1978 basic half-body form. of Cd 0.15.
It's the same form Hyundai used for their Prophecy concept car, which their IONIQ 6 borrows heavily from.
I'm curious about the cut line on the rear hatch, and if it's a pop-up spoiler. It needs one.
As a pure electric, and comparing it to other Honda ICE and Hybrid body architectures, the Afeela might come in somewhere in the Cd 0.23- 0.21 range. I hope they publish the numbers at some point.
Without an accurate width for Afeela I cannot complete it's dimensional analysis.

[freebeard]

Mizuno San didn't offer very much explanation as to why the name Afeela was chosen, except to say that the word 'feel' is at the heart of the mobility experience they want to build, where the car both make you feel something and also senses what you feel.

I guess Herbie was already taken?

[Phase]

that rear roofline is way steeper than my ioniq...

[kach22i]

The article near the end really plays up the Sony video and music aspect.

I would think they are planning ahead for "hands free" one day.

[aerohead]

I worked with the photograph over the weekend and came up with a Cd questimate.
It's at the bottom of the original post, where it won't get buried.