Car color affects the level of fuel consumption

Dark-colored car believed to be more greedily devour fuel 

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Car color selection proved to be influential in saving on fuel. bahar It reaffirmed the results of Research Department of the University of Berkeley Energy Technology Environment. They published a new study that stated if brightly colored cars have 2 percent fuel efficiency is better than a dark-colored car.

As reported by Autoblog Green, Sunday 6 November 2011, the results of research that explains the bright colors, such as white and silver, are capable of reflecting sunlight up to 60 percent, while black or darker colors reflect light only 5 per cent.

In trials conducted researchers, after drying process under a hot sun for an hour, silver-coloured hoods have cooler temperatures than the car is black. Both the color temperature is in dispute up to 26 degrees Celsius. Whereas the difference in temperature of the air inside the cabin at odds about 5-8 degrees Celsius.

From this fuel consumption can be influenced. Car with bright colors have certainly cooler than the rest of the car's cabin. This affects the performance of the automatic air conditioning became more lightweight and efficient way to lower the temperature of the air cabin to 25 degrees Celsius, because it only takes 30 minutes (as per industry standard performance for vehicle AIR CONDITIONING).

The researchers also mention the car with the silver color can reduce the rate of fuel consumption with a mileage of about 0.187 km\/liter or 2 percent.

Armed with this information, the car manufacturers began to restrict the provision of dark colors on models of eco-themed cars. The anticipation of more to reduce the heat and improve vehicle fuel efficiency is the use of glass film.

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