I'll do a partial Copy & Past of what I posted in
another forum.
Aerodynamically speaking, lots of drag from those wheel flares. I know this first hand and not just by looking at CFD images online because I've done stuff to my pickup truck.
I also expect a lot of flat plane rolling vortexes of which numerous diagrams have been posted in the forum over the years. That roof plane change isn't exactly a friendly transition.
From the Random Aerodynamic Oddity Thread:
Strouhal Numbers of Unsteady Flow Structures Around a Simplified Car Model
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-40371-2_26
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is work aims to gain relatively thorough understanding of unsteady flow structures around an Ahmed body and associated predominated Strouhal numbers St x SQ RT "A" based on the square root of the frontal area A.
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Flow structures in the near-wake of the Ahmed model
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889974605000514
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Time-dependant analysis revealed that the shedding behind the model is analogous to vortex shedding behind bluff bodies, with most of the fluctuations confined to the axial direction.
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I suspect this Tesla has the military market in mind, and not so much civilian, why else the special unbreakable windows?
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Originally Posted by nikita76
I don't think that's the actual truck.....I think it's a decoy.....
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I'd lay money that street version will be a scaled down version of the Tesla Semi-Truck but on the same chassis/platform as this mock-up. I recall seeing a rendering of it a while ago.
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Found it in my Aerodynamic folder, do not recall where I got it from.
