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Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat (www.asahi.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Nissan Motor Co. said it has developed a new type of paint that significantly reduces the temperature inside vehicles parked in direct sunlight.

The surface of a car coated with the innovative material remains up to 12 degrees cooler than that of a vehicle with standard paint, tests showed.

The company said the coating material can help rein in the temperature rise not only on the car's body but also in the vehicle when exposed to direct sunlight.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Might be the most interesting thing Nissan has developed in two decades.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

They found a very interesting way of selling their hybrid cars as full on EVs where I live. Their e-power stuff are small ICEs working as generators for electric motors that then drive the wheels. Apparently the fact that the wheels get all their power from an electric motor makes it definitely not a hybrid no sir, despite the fact the cars have tiny ass batteries and the single source of power for the whole system is the ICE. Also they somehow have worse fuel efficiency than many contemporary ICEs that cost quite a bit less. I don't understand Nissan.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Where is this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

A few car companies seem to be doing that. Toyota(?) here are advertising their hybrid vehicles as "self-charging electric vehicles" instead of a hybrid, even though there's no way to plug them in and not have them self charge.