Thanks Lee. The car is a 2001 Suzuki Swift, www.evalbum.com/3060 Yes it should have been 80% DOD. Thanks, I corrected it.
I keep the tires at about 36 psi (that's what the tire gauge says anyway). Cd = 0.32 and rolling resistance plus brake drag = 0.014 gave best fit to the roll down data, and the Cd agrees with the spec I found on line. The Tesla S has almost exactly the same CdA as this car. Pretty impressive for such a large vehicle. From that, and the much greater weight of the Tesla you can see drag force will not exceed rolling resistance force until quite a bit above 45 mph, the cross over point for my car. -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Re-EVLN-Open-Source-Street-Legal-affordable-long-range-EV-4the-masses-tp4675590p4675641.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
