A thermal cloak made up of a reflective outside layer and a heat-trapping inner layer can help pre-condition EV batteries, making them even more efficient car auto cars
. By simply placing it over a parked vehicle, it can help moderate its temperature, in effect pre-preconditioning the battery.“The thermal cloak is like clothes for vehicles, buildings, spacecrafts, or even extraterrestrial habitats to keep cool in summer and warm in winter,” said Kehang Cui, the project’s senior author.
However, what’s really exceptional about the cloak is that it doesn’t just keep the car warm, it also keeps it cool. In testing, the team found that, on a warm sunny day when the cabin of an uncovered vehicle was 122.9 °F , the temperature of the cabin of a vehicle that used the thermal cloak was as low as 73 °F . In winter testing, the product also kept a vehicle considerably warmer than the ambient temperature.
The team deliberately designed the material to be scalable, and therefore useful in a commercial context. However, it told the
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