[tromp]

Mercedes achieved a 1000km range with a regular 100kWh battery by making an extremely efficient car with a drag coefficient of only 0.17 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Vision_EQXX

[rasz]

This is a one off concept with fake doors. Think Volkswagen XL1 but even more ridiculous.

[kirse]

The unfortunate thing with the whole drag-coefficient game is it ultimately results in fish-shaped cars and zero unique designs.

Between EVs and crossovers we're suffocating in this current era of uninspired automotive design where it seems like mfgrs take a single car model, open it in Photoshop, resize by 50/70/110/130%, slap on new badge and call it a day. Audi & Subaru are some of the worst modern offenders here.

[callalex]

I would argue that the real suffering is caused by climate change displacing communities and killing people in frequent natural disasters.

[tromp]

> fish-shaped cars and zero unique designs

While the EQXX and the Aptera EV [1] may both be fish shaped, they show quite a range of design variation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptera_(solar_electric_vehicle...