Nissan also detects you having sex in the car and phones the info home.
I seriously doubt that, tests have been performed comparing black and white painted cars, and the difference was insignificant. The heat buildup in a car is due to the the sunlight entering through the windows.
trick is to paint the windows
Also this is problematic:
12 degrees cooler
But by what scale? If it's Flaffenfeit, it's just half an ounce!!!
To add to your comment, ceramic window tint is a night and day difference. My steering wheel, shifter, and all couldn't be touched after work. I wore driving gloves to get home. With the tint there slightly warm and the AC doesn't take half the drive to catch up, the car is cool by the first stop light.
Maybe they should sell cars with that by default instead?
Is ceramic tint different from ordinary tint?
Yes. It contains ceramic nano particles that reflect UV without interfering with visibility.
edit: I meant IR. But it reflects both.
I just love how humans will do anything other than actually focus on fixing the problem. Love it.
I would argue that the new paint could help alleviate the issue, since it would incentivise people to decrease use of the AC. My concern then would be how polluting is the production of the new paint compared to the current version.
My immediate thought was to wonder if this would help give kids who get left in a car by mistake have more of a fighting chance
So... You want to turn off the sun? This has nothing to do with climate change, the sun hasn't changed intensity in a few 100 years, so sun makes things warm
Like reducing the number of cars.
Ohh too much traffic! 🤔 Let's expand the freeways until you need a freeway to cross other freeways.
They're currently working hard for a way to make it subscription.
Twelve degrees what? A degree Celsius is more than twice a degree in Fahrenheit.
State your units, FFS.
I will assume celsius since the IR image shows around 45 and 35 degrees in direct sunlight.
Can they develop a paint that reduces the amount of cars? That would be more helpful.
This might match your criteria:
(Jokes aside, I do agree with your sentiment)
12 degree °C or °F???
°C, which is not bad. Official press release (I think): https://global.nissannews.com/en/releases/nissan-trialing-cool-paint-technology
Might be the most interesting thing Nissan has developed in two decades.
That typo reverses the meaning by being one letter off.
(It had said "diy cooking paint")
wouldn't this also work on buildings? pavement?
No, only Nissans. It says right there.
As someone living in Wisconsin with salty road winters, I'll say that Nissan's reputation is mostly trash here based specifically on their paint
As someone who used to live there, I'll say that Wisconsin's reputation is mostly trash based specifically on their winters
Anything to not add a cooling system to the ev batteries.
Why don’t they just make the whole ~~plane~~ planet out of the ~~black box~~ paint.
Windshield screens are the low-tech but far more effective method of keeping a car's interior cooler, typically by at least 20F when it's really hot out. Slightly inconvenient but unlike this paint, a windshield screen will actually make a difference.
Mythbusters did an experiment with a black car and a white car hitting in the sun. The black car was 12 degrees Celsius hotter. Claiming that the paint makes no difference is such a weird take. I thought this was common knowledge as well as many people I've met avoid darker colours in summer and such.
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