You make an impression as a small player by breaking records. Lightyear succeeds by making the 0 the most aerodynamic car ever.
It is not easy to come up with a car brand. Lightyear from the Netherlands has been trying it for a while and it is starting to take on production-ready shapes. That’s good news, but there’s still some work to be done.
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The Lightyear 0 should be a large sedan, think Tesla Model S and Lucid Air. The spearhead of the Lightyear 0 is that it should be an extremely efficient EV. The target is 1,000 km of practical range. One of the ways to achieve this is through a streamlined shape.
Lightyear 0 is the most aerodynamic
It is definitely streamlined. The Lightyear 0 is now officially the most aerodynamic car. In the world and all time. This is evident from wind tunnel tests in Stuttgart. In context: the most aerodynamic car of the moment with a drag coefficient of 0.200 is the Mercedes EQS. The most aerodynamic car of all time has a drag coefficient of 0.186. Pub quiz question of the day is of course which car that is: the Volkswagen XL1.
The Cw value of the Lightyear 0 is 0.175. An extremely streamlined shape, large wheel arch cover reminiscent of the Citroën DS and as few things as possible that hinder the airflow, such as mirrors and wheel arches. Strikingly enough, the Mercedes EQS is equipped with ‘normal’ mirrors. You wonder how much could still be achieved there.
These are official homologation figures, so we can assume that the Lightyear 0 will really go down in the books as the car with the lowest Cw value. Until it breaks again. As mentioned, this efficient shape is one of the reasons that the 0 has more than 1,000 km range.
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