The Aptera is 0.13 and has a slight resemblance to this car (outboard wheels).
-Steve > On Dec 30, 2025, at 8:39 AM, EV List Lackey via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 30 Dec 2025 at 6:30, Jay Summet via EV wrote: > >> I get 4-5 miles per kWh in my Nissan Leaf at 40mph, I see no reason a >> streamliner couldn't do 8. > > At 45mph, with moderately careful driving, a 1990s Solectria Force could > achieve 150 Wh/mi - 6.7 mi / kWh. Solectria claimed 137 Wh/mi or 7.3 > mi/kWh, which is probably what James Worden could get. And that was a > conventional steel-bodied Geo Metro. > > I've also done 160 Wh/mi (9.9 kWh / 100km or 6.25 mi / kWh) in a Dacia > Spring at an average of about 60 km/h (37 mph). And that's only slightly > more aero than a cinderblock. > > But as Bill pointed out, wind drag rises as the square of the speed. I'm > too lazy to compute it, but the difference between 40 or 45mph and the > Renault streamliner's 63mph average is pretty substantial. > > My question: why couldn't Renault do better than a 0.3 drag coefficient? > Engineers know how; remember the slippery solar racers from the 1990s. My > guess is that Renault were too focused on making the car pretty and exotic- > looking. > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > US democracy was built on an 18th century understanding that if > Americans got mad enough, they would get guns and torches and tar > and chicken feathers, and run legislators and people who tried to > enforce bad laws out of town on a rail. > > -- Found on the net > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
