EV Performance & Aerodynamics: A Visual Guide to Design, Aero, Thermal & Packaging — With Simple CFD, Case Studies, and DIY Tests: A Guidebook and ... and Car Lovers (Iconic Cars in History) Hardcover – December 12, 2025

EV Performance & Aerodynamics: A Visual Guide to Design, Aero, Thermal & Packaging — With Simple CFD, Case Studies, and DIY Tests pulls back the skin of modern electric cars and shows you what’s really happening underneath. Instead of drowning you in equations, it uses big visuals, clean diagrams, and real-car examples to explain why EVs launch so hard, coast so differently, and gain or lose range with tiny changes in speed, wheels, or temperature. If you’ve ever wondered why some EVs look like sleek lozenges, why their noses are sealed, or why they suddenly light up fans at a fast charger, this book connects those dots in plain language.Inside, you’ll move from fundamentals (drag, lift, CdA, heat sources, packaging trade-offs) to real hardware—batteries, motors, inverters, structural packs, heat pumps—and then into case studies of hyper-efficient sedans, performance flagships, and motorsport EVs. Each chapter is built around annotated photos, section views, and simple CFD plots you can actually understand. Callouts like “what to copy” and “what to avoid” help you see the transferable principles behind cars like the Hyundai Ioniq 6, Mercedes EQS, GM EV1, Tesla Model S Plaid, Lucid Air, Rimac Nevera, Formula E Gen3, and Pikes Peak prototypes.For general readers and enthusiasts, it’s an eye-opening tour of the invisible forces that shape how EVs look and feel. For designers, students, and engineers, it’s a compact reference and idea generator, complete with QR-linked worksheets, coast-down and tuft-testing guides, IR camera tricks, and sketch-to-CFD workflows. Whether you just love looking at cars, are designing the next one, or are tuning your own project in the garage, this book gives you a new kind of X-ray vision for air, heat, and hardware in the EV era. Read more