Japanese car maker Nissan has developed a new type paint that keeps cars cooler. The paint lowers the temperature inside cars that are parked sunlight. The paint can keep a car 12ºC cooler than cars regular paint. The new paint will also reduce the need air conditioning. This means there is less pressure a car's battery. The paint was developed partnership with a Chinese company called Radi-Cool, a specialist heat-cooling products. Nissan said: "The project is part [our] pursuit of…innovations that empower journeys, and help create a cleaner, more sustainable society." The paint is currently only available white. Nissan hopes to make other colours the future.
The leader the "cool paint" project is Dr Susumu Miura. He is a manager the Nissan Research Center Tokyo. His team started developing the paint 2021. Their current paint is about six times thicker than standard automotive paint. This will make cars a little more expensive. Dr Miura spoke about his work. He said: "My dream is to create cooler cars consuming energy." He added: "This is especially important the electric vehicle era, where the load running air-conditioning summer can have a sizeable impact the [condition of the battery]." He hopes vehicles ambulances that spend most the day out driving will have the paint.
