Aero vs Turbine wheel covers - efficiency test.

[DuncanM]

Aero wheel covers appear to be ~8% more efficient!

 

[Kimmi]

. . . And still ugly IMO.

 

[Transformer]

Aero wheel covers appear to be ~8% more efficient!

Nice! Thanks for finding and summarizing 19 minutes.

Did it look like a solid experiment or just one measurement that needs repeating?

 

[DuncanM]

Nice! Thanks for finding and summarizing 19 minutes.

Did it look like a solid experiment or just one measurement that needs repeating?

You can fast forward to the last 5minutes. It does look like a solid test, but the results seem a bit surprising in terms of how much they favour the Aero wheel covers.

 

[Transformer]

He took one round trip with each set of wheel covers:

• Aero wheel covers: used 123 Wh/km over 49 km. Warm day.
• Aftermarket turbine wheel covers: used 134 Wh/km over 48 km [saving 1 km at a turnaround]. Used 9% more total energy per km (even with less wind and used less A/C).

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