Was stunned to read the drivel that appeared on Yahoo News today. Clearly author under influence of Koch. Choice cuts: "No reason to drive an EV" "Combustion vehicle range of 500-600 mi."
There's bias, then there's REALLY bad, over-the-top bias. This was the latter. Bob Bath, from his iPod, so any misspellings are from autocorrect or fat fingers on a small device, not cluelessness... > On Oct 21, 2017, at 9:42 AM, Lee Hart via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Paul Compton via EV wrote: >> Drag factor is a load of crap. >> >> It's drag in terms of force required to propel a vehicle at a given >> speed that's important. >> >> The drag factor is derived from that force and a reference area. >> Inconsistencies in the way that area is calculated for road vehicles, >> makes drag factor mostly a marketing figure. > > I agree. CD is a useful metric from a designer's point of view. Design > engineers will define precisely how they are measuring drag, and then test > various models under identical conditions to find out what helps, and what > hinders. They are likely to use small scale models, in a wind tunnel. The > models don't move, and their wheels aren't turning; the air is blown over > them. The models often aren't "finished"; they have no lights, rear view > mirrors, door seams, the bottom is smooth, etc. The results are relative; but > don't apply all that well to the finished car. > > Unfortunately, it gets twisted by marketing, and used for advertising > purposes. They'll take the CD for the best model, and pretend it applies to > the real car. Or simply make it up, to be a notch better than whatever the > competition just claimed. > > As to the original question: "Why do electric vehicles have to look so ugly"? > Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and constantly changes depending on > fashion. Just look at what were considered to be "beautiful" cars over the > years! Some that were once considered gorgeous now look hideous! > > Given the present state of the art, EVs do not have "power to waste" like > ICEs. EVs *have* to be designed more efficiently. That forces the stylists to > give at least some say to the engineers. EVs look the way they do because > they *work better* that way. In its own way, that is beautiful, too. > > -- > We ascribe beauty to that which is simple, with no superfluous parts; > which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things, and > is the mean of many extremes. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) > > 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) > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20171021/bc5f2d2a/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
