Why don't we just build high speed electrified rail and busses. Why this rollout of electrified golf carts? My car is fast and fun to drive, that's part of it's job alongside getting me where I need to go.

If I just need to get somewhere, I want to take a clean fast train like Japan and then walk.

That's 9 miles/kWh, compared to the Cybercab's 6.1 miles/kWh, compared to a typical EV at 3-4 miles/kWh.

Part of the difference may come from using the easier WLTP testing cycle than the EPA cycle the Cybercab probably uses, but only part.

Bring back wheel covers!

Sign me up for all of these innovations in an actual production car. No idea why the whole market seems to be obsessed with ever-wider SUVs...

Perhaps better info on VWs own press release:

https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/press-releases/missio...

This is concept car that has no planned release date.

> Volkswagen just build the world's most aerodynamic road car ever.

A drag coefficient of 0.158 is not quite setting a record. Aptera's road-legal car has a coefficient of only 0.13, while achieved a drag coefficient of 0.144 with the Aero Challenge concept car [1] (but it's not clear whether that vehicle is road-legal, or even what it looks like).

[1] https://www.azernews.az/region/245135.html

And with barely three millimeters of clearance you can effectively sweep the roads while you drive! Wake us up when it can safely navigate a speed bump without bottoming out.

They did something very similar 20+ years ago called XL1 to achieve 1l/100km, never made it into production. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/VW_XL1

Based on the battery of 55kWh this is about efficiency, not packing more batteries:

> 6.48 kWh/100 km

At a constant 68km/h in perfect conditions (no up/down) and no additional consumers of energy (climate control).

Even on a real route they apparently got some useful stats with 7.51 kWh/100km including charging. Cool.

My car is around 17-20 kWh/100km at a 64kWh battery for a medium cost car in germany. I wish it was even close to that efficiency.

China has already solved the range problem by speeding up charging. When you can recharge 5 hours of highway driving in range during a 5-minute bathroom stop, an additional few hundred miles just isn't that useful anymore.

You could also go the other way and use the improved range to shrink the battery, but with the ongoing battery cost drop that's not exactly a gamechanger either - and fast-charging long-range Chinese EVs are available for their domestic market for a fraction of the cost of entry-level Western models as well...

Don't get me wrong, improving aerodynamics is a nice goal, but with the ongoing push towards gigantic SUVs there's zero chance anything even remotely resembling this concept car will ever see the light of day.

This just makes the Tesla Model S P90D, from 14 years ago, just look even better. 509km range (in the lab) and incredible acceleration, and looks pretty normal and practical. And it doesn't make you bring your own phone and bluetooth speaker for infotainment.

Maybe they learned from their blunder with the ID Buzz. At this point though I simply don't trust any legacy automaker when it comes to producing and supporting EVs for their lifetime.

What do you do when your rear tyre gets a flat?

Shape reminds me a lot of the first gen Honda Insight - also built to be low drag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Insight#First_generation...