Is the concept of driving a black box a 'sauna' in the summer?

For those who own a black box car, they are very interested in whether their car is hotter than another color car if they have to be exposed to the summer sun? Indeed they were rightly worried about this.

Have you ever wondered why box cars when exposed to the intense sunshine of the summer day become a true "sauna" . Turns out, they have quite similar relationships with how you still choose bright clothes to avoid the sun.

We all know that dark colors will absorb more heat from sunlight while bright colored clothes will reflect better. That concept also turned out to be applied to cars.

Silver-painted cars and other non-black paint colors can increase the vehicle's heat-resistant performance.

In the period of 2008-2009, California state, the United States took into account the prohibition of selling black cars, not because of concern for the comfort of residents but because of concerns that the environmental impacts are not favorable from the car Black absorbs heat from sunlight.

According to a study in 2011 conducted by Berkeley Lab Environmental Energy Technology, silver-colored cars and other non-black paint colors can increase the vehicle's anti-heat efficiency. The study was tested on two silver and black Civic cars. They found that lighter silver cars reflect about 60% of sunlight compared to dark cars.

The effect of sunlight reflections helps reduce 2% of fuel for turning on the air conditioner in the car, reducing 1.9% of CO ₂ emissions to the wall and 1% of other harmful emissions emitted. from a car with black paint.

Or in a 2015 test of Autotrader, they tested two black and white cars exposing themselves to the hot summer outdoors in Georgia, USA. The results showed that the inside temperature of the black car was horribly hot up to 54 degrees Celsius, while the white car was only 45 degrees Celsius.

Then there was another test to test the cooling capacity of the air conditioning system in two black and white cars. Unsurprisingly, the cooling system pulled the white car's interior temperature down to about 28 degrees Celsius after only 10 minutes. Around the same time, the air conditioner of the black car only cooled to 32 degrees C.

Another YouTube channel test BuzzFeedBlue also puts two black and white cars in the sun. The results showed that the black car's surface temperature increased to 76 degrees Celsius, while the white car was only 58 degrees Celsius.

Testing for two black and white cars sunning at the same time.

The black car has a temperature of up to 76 degrees C.

The white car is only 58 degrees C.

Legislators said that a hotter car would require more energy to cool and cool the inside of the car. This wasted fuel, increased toxic emissions emitted from a car,

Therefore reducing the number of black cars on the road can contribute to reducing the amount of smoke and greenhouse gases emitted into the environment, against global warming. Although the state of California last still does not pass the law, it is likely that every citizen must be aware of this to reduce the greenhouse effect.

A car that must be exposed to direct sunlight will heat up quickly, reach high temperatures and retain heat longer than a parked vehicle in the shade.

Thus, it can be concluded temporarily, the concept of cars in black or dark colors easier to heat in summer is absolutely right. So if possible, you should use sun screens that reflect sunlight to the car.