Comment by xethos
13 hours ago
As efficiency improves across motors and inverters, wouldn't regen make CoD matter more, possibly tilting it to the dominant factor again?
13 hours ago
As efficiency improves across motors and inverters, wouldn't regen make CoD matter more, possibly tilting it to the dominant factor again?
Regen recoups about 80% of the kinetic energy, and it is already up close to the theoretical physical limit without switching to exotic materials.
Cd will never be the dominating factor at speeds which do not produce significant aerodynamic drag.
I don’t think there’s a whole lot of room for improvement there.