By Ronald Ortega
25 Oct 2023, 1:31 PM EDT
In addition to being environmentally friendly and offering efficient mobility alternatives to citizens, zero-emission vehicles have other virtues related to their impressive technological capacity.
In the battle that still exists between gasoline cars versus electrified ones, another positive aspect arises for those that do not run on combustion. It is specifically about the aerodynamic benefits that the “Lightyear 0”
The electric sedan has several aspects that draw attention for its innovation such as its Production limited to 946 units in 2022, final price of 250,000 euros and a total focus on efficiency, including the entire roof with solar panels and a very peculiar format.
The vehicle created by Dutch startup Lightyear achieves a aerodynamic coefficient of 0.175. Cars like him Jeep Wrangler It has a penetration of 0.454 and the Mercedes-Benz CLAwhich was presented as the most aerodynamic production vehicle in the world, achieves a Cx of 0.23being surpassed by the Lightyear.
Specifically, with respect to the electrified market, air-related efficiency increases with the Tesla Model 3 at 0.23, the Lucid Air at 0.21 and the Mercedes EQS at 0.20.
Importance of aerodynamics
Despite being underestimated, the aerodynamic power It is relevant since the air offers resistance to progress that grows as the square of the vehicle’s speed, that is, in the city it will have little influence, but on the road it will have a great impact on the amount of energy needed to move.
Features like low body heightsmooth surfaces, long roof and narrow rear, as well as rear wheel fairing and wheels match so that the sedan has aerodynamic virtue.
In addition to its penetration coefficient, The Lightyear 0 has a weight of 1,575 kilosa 60 kWh battery for a autonomy of 625 km to which are added up to 70 extra km with the electricity generated by its solar panel roof.
Finally, your approach focused on efficiency over the benefits make it deliver a 0 to 100 km/h in 10 seconds and 160 km/h maximum speed, but achieving a performance of 10.5 kWh/100km.
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