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This is a situation that many drivers know all too well.
Let’s say it’s the middle of July or August when the temperature outside is around 92 degrees Fahrenheit.
When you park your car outside without any shade, chances are that by the time you get back, the inside of the car will feel more like a sauna than a comfortable place to sit for more than 20 seconds.
There are ways to prevent this, but drivers know that sun shades can be difficult to install every time you park, and parking under trees or in indoor parking lots isn’t always a viable option.
Nissan is set to change all that with its latest innovation, which could help drivers save gas when running the air conditioning at full blast.
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Nissan recently revealed that it has teamed up with a Chinese refrigeration company called Radi-Cool to develop a new premium car paint designed to reduce temperatures.
According to Nissan, the premium paint “includes synthetic composite materials with structures that have properties not normally found in nature.”
The materials used in the paint are designed to reflect infrared rays rather than absorb them. They also create electromagnetic waves that counteract the sun’s rays, preventing them from being absorbed by the vehicle’s surfaces.
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Dr. Susumu Miura, senior manager and specialist at the Advanced Materials and Processing Laboratory at Nissan Research Center, noted that this pioneering coating technology is important because cars that idle with the air conditioning on waste a lot of fuel and can translate into wasted energy.
“My dream is to create cooler cars without consuming energy,” Miura said. “This is especially important in the era of electric cars, where the load from running air conditioning in the summer can have a significant impact on the state of charge.”
The cool new paint is already showing results. Compared to conventional automotive paint, Nissan claims its new paint makes the outside of the car 22 degrees Fahrenheit cooler and the inside 9 degrees Fahrenheit cooler.
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Any color you want, as long as it’s white.
Radiant cooling paint technology is not a new development; it is already used in buildings and is usually applied using a paint roller.
Since 2021, Miura and his team have tested more than 100 samples of this paint and developed a solution suitable for use in cars.
It’s six times thicker than conventional car paint, and Miura and his Nissan team have found that it’s resistant to road salt, cracking, peeling, scratching, and chemical reactions.
Nissan says Miura’s team is working to develop thinner paints that can provide the same cooling capabilities. Miura envisions the paints could be used in light commercial vehicle applications such as vans, trucks and ambulances that spend most of their day driving.
Miura hopes to eventually offer the paint on Nissans that are specially ordered in different colors. Right now, the only color his team has been able to produce is white, which is notoriously difficult to maintain.
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