Robert Bruninga via EV wrote:
The one sentence that caught my eye:
Automakers may be big, lumbering, and risk-averse, but they are not
stupid.
Well they sure stand-in-line to copy each other's race to the ugliest
GRILLS every seen since the Edsal. Is it just me or is the trend now in
gas cars to see who can make the biggest and ugliest grill possible?
Since EV's hardly need them at all, I wonder what the ideal front end of
an EV will look like when we grow out of Grill Chrome as a decoration?
Cars have always been more about style than aerodynamics.
Aerovironment's Paul MacReady, who designed GM's EV1 electric car said
he fought constantly with the GM stylists for function over style. He
also said most cars are more streamlined in reverse than going forward.
An optimized car design would be shaped more like a bird or airplane,
with *no* grille in front -- just a smooth rounded nose, with
aerodynamically designed air intakes where needed for engine cooling.
--
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when
I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Fuller
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Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com
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