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Re:Roadster 3.0 by tacos on Friday December 26, 2014 @02:34PM (#8799977)
They do: even pedestrian looking Audis and Mazdas from a few years ago beat this retrofit by quite some margin. And the Tesla Model S is 0.24.
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Re:Roadster 3.0 by mrfusion on Friday December 26, 2014 @02:38PM (#8799998)
So what was it we couldn't do ten years ago to get these same values?
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Re:Roadster 3.0 by tacos on Friday December 26, 2014 @02:50PM (#8800057)
In the case of Tesla you mean? One look at the Lotus Elise and you'll see they weren't exactly going for aerodynamics. Tesla barely survived the launch, so it wasn't going to happen back then.

This is one of those "in hindsight" kind of things that never get fixed. The fact that Tesla is doing it says a LOT positive about them.

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