Sunday, October 18, 2015

Air-conditioned Seats


India is a tropical country and the average temperature is about 27 degree C and it rises upto 38. In this hot climate and a closed environment of car it gets really hot. Air-condition is the only relief for us. But the normal on board vents of Air-condition has its drawback like it takes time to cool environment, it is noisy, common for all the seater and all decreases millage.

There is a new technology for our comfort called as air-condition seats available in some new cars and you can also replace in your existing car.

How does this technology works?

This technology was developed at the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This seats has porous mesh fabric which makes possible to flow air through it. There are fans inside the seats which circulate the air makes the outer fabric cooled. To understand visually there is a video.





Advantages

  • Ever individual can maintain temperature accordingly.
  • As the area to be cooled is decreased, fuel is less consumed.

Which manufactures have implemented this technology?

Ford, Hyundai, Honda, BMW, Audi, Mercedes.

Reference 

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