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Telo Trucks is a Silicon Valley based startup developing an all electric pickup truck with the cargo bed of a Ford F150 and the footprint of a 2-door Mini.
Tackling the aerodynamics on a pickup truck is not easy. So in this video, Jason Marks & Forest North walk us through the challenges and solutions.
Drag is composed of both the frontal area and the drag coefficient. They've already managed to bring down the frontal area from the 3.5m² of a Ford F150 to 2.5m² for the Telo Truck.
In terms of drag coefficient, the main challenges will be to treat the airflow around the exposed front wheels and to guide the air coming off the passenger cabin (avoiding an unfavorable interaction with the cargo bed).
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The AirShaper videos cover the basics of aerodynamics (aerodynamic drag, drag & lift coefficients, boundary layer theory, flow separation, reynolds number...), simulation aspects (computational fluid dynamics, CFD meshing, ...) and aerodynamic testing (wind tunnel testing, flow visualization, ...).
We then use those basics to explain the aerodynamics of (race) cars (aerodynamic efficiency of electric vehicles, aerodynamic drag, downforce, aero maps, formula one aerodynamics, ...), drones and airplanes (propellers, airfoils, electric aviation, eVTOLS, ...), motorcycles (wind buffeting, motogp aerodynamics, ...) and more!
For more information, visit airshaper.com
For more information, visit:
airshaper.com
telotrucks.com
Telo Trucks is a Silicon Valley based startup developing an all electric pickup truck with the cargo bed of a Ford F150 and the footprint of a 2-door Mini.
Tackling the aerodynamics on a pickup truck is not easy. So in this video, Jason Marks & Forest North walk us through the challenges and solutions.
Drag is composed of both the frontal area and the drag coefficient. They've already managed to bring down the frontal area from the 3.5m² of a Ford F150 to 2.5m² for the Telo Truck.
In terms of drag coefficient, the main challenges will be to treat the airflow around the exposed front wheels and to guide the air coming off the passenger cabin (avoiding an unfavorable interaction with the cargo bed).
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The AirShaper videos cover the basics of aerodynamics (aerodynamic drag, drag & lift coefficients, boundary layer theory, flow separation, reynolds number...), simulation aspects (computational fluid dynamics, CFD meshing, ...) and aerodynamic testing (wind tunnel testing, flow visualization, ...).
We then use those basics to explain the aerodynamics of (race) cars (aerodynamic efficiency of electric vehicles, aerodynamic drag, downforce, aero maps, formula one aerodynamics, ...), drones and airplanes (propellers, airfoils, electric aviation, eVTOLS, ...), motorcycles (wind buffeting, motogp aerodynamics, ...) and more!
For more information, visit airshaper.com
