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To: ProtectOurFreedom
The idea is that in an EV, a grill does nothing but increase drag. An EV has no radiator to cool by having air come in like an ICE car does. To be fair, EV's do have some ventilation for some cooling, but not nearly as much as an ICE car does.

So EV car makers are looking for creative ways to make the grill disappear. Truck owners all made fun of Tesla's cyber truck having no grill-shaped front end (the idea being to have an angular shape to cut through the air better), which made the cyber truck look nothing like a truck. Thus other EV truck makers are trying to make their truck have a pickup-truck looking front end (which means a flat space on the front where the grill would be), but at the same time not be a real grill catching a bunch of air (and thus increasing drag, which reduces range).

22 posted on 11/29/2022 8:40:04 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

You just suck the joy right out of all my lame humor attempts.


24 posted on 11/29/2022 8:42:47 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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