Having the ideal temperature inside the car is essential for the comfort of the occupants and, above all, for road safety. Heat can cause dehydration, drowsiness, and drops in blood pressure that can lead to more serious medical problems. For this reason, and in order to be completely in tune with what surrounds us, a paint has been launched for the car that allows it to be cooled down in a simple way.
An innovative solution for high temperatures
Cars heat up quickly in summer because air doesn’t circulate inside the cabin. This means that leaving them parked in the sun, even for a few hours, will surely surprise us with unbearable temperatures in addition to damaging the paint by the sun.
This, when traveling, can become a hardship. The air conditioning always wins everyone, but now we can count another very comfortable way to remedy it. Because if; Although you are very careful with your car and try to plan your trips to avoid the hottest hours, you may have to use it when it is at high temperatures.
In those, we have Solcold, of Israeli origin, an innovative solution that will soon be in every vehicle on the road. This is a company that is developing an innovation in which a high level of radiation is converted into cold . Or what is the same; a paint for the car that transforms the sun’s rays to emit them cold.
The paint that transforms the heat of the sun into cold
We are talking about Solcold, who is working on the development of a new paint as a material that reflects the heat from the sun to prevent it from accumulating inside a vehicle. This technology harnesses the sun to make things cooler rather than warmer, so the stronger the sun, the cooler the interior of the vehicle gets.
With tests on Toyota and Volkswagen concepts, they maintain that the prototype would be ready to make the leap to the production phase at the end of the year. Later we could see it in the first cars or in any other object where it can be useful, such as clothes or a house.
This car paint works as a refractory insulating layer that claims to be able to lower the temperature of a vehicle by about 20 degrees when it is exposed to sunlight. To test its effectiveness, the company placed three vehicles on a sunny day; one protected with its material in the form of a film on the bodywork and two without it.
The first, without the product, reached a temperature of 55°C, while the second, with protection, reached a temperature of 37°C in full sun. The third, which was uncoated but parked in the shade, had an internal temperature of 40°C, proving that this coating was actually more than effective.
How is your layer technology
However, we are referring to a technology with four layers that are made up of a first one more in contact with the sun and that the company considers confidential, so it does not offer more details about it. The second is made up of active cooling particles .
For its part, the third is a flexible, transparent and heat-conducting layer, while the fourth is a reflective layer of infrared rays. They have also indicated that it is more effective to use the film based on the new technology than to place the vehicle in the shade.
A material that can be used for a large number of applications and the only thing left to do is wait for them to be on the market. Be that as it may, its application is going to revolutionize the automobile market and many others. There are those who think that its irruption can be as or more disruptive than that of Tesla in its day. Will be?
