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Aptera Anticipates Lowest Drag Coefficient Of Any Car Ever In Wind Tunnel Testing

13 Jul 2023 | Abstracted from Electrek

"Aptera's "Gamma" prototype... doing aerodynamic testing at Pininfarina's wind tunnel near Turin, Italy...Much of car design has moved to “computational fluid dynamics,” or CFD, where computers simulate wind tunnel results...

Aptera thinks will have the lowest Cd of any production car ever, beating the EV1's 0.19 and Lightyear 0's 0.175 marks."

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