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The Leading Edge is the first book to summarize the aerodynamic design and construction issues of solar cars and ultralight land vehicles. Author Goro Tamai draws on his own experience in designing solar cars at MIT to produce a book for the ground up streamlined land vehicle designer or constructor, as well as for the solarelectricultralight vehicle enthusiast. As with any engineering problem, the best body shape for solar cars, HPVs, or Electrathoners is not the body of absolute lowest drag. The vehicle system, including the driver, chassis, and energydrive system must work in concert to produce the maximum output. The Leading Edge will help designers quantify the trade offs, and make logical decisions. Vehicles covered include solar cars, human powered vehicles HPV, solar bikes, electrathon racers, ground up hybrid or pure electric vehicles, and fuel economy record cars Numerous examples using specific race cars and teams, and how designers solved problems Full definition of terms, with equations and examples provided for determining key aerodynamic parameters All design and construction issues, from body shape, to wheels, to canopy integration, to solar panel sizing How to do in the field testing and diagnosis of aerodynamic performance Special overview section reviews the history of ultra streamlined land vehicle development I wish this book had been around when I was designing solar cars. An excellent review...pushing the competition to a new plateau of performance. Jacek Gromadzki, Aerodynamicist, 1997 University of Waterloo Solar Car Team
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