Drivers dealing with wildfire smoke might add one more accessory to the lineup: five small air filters taped to a box fan.
A Luftrum in-car air purifier sits atop a car's dashboard and cleans the air.
It was developed by Richard Corsi, dean of the college of engineering at the University of California Davis, and his buddy Jim Rosenthal during the worst days of the Covid-19 pandemic, when it became clear that school districts weren’t taking air purification seriously. Car cockpits contain a stew of volatile and near-volatile chemicals that vent from various plastics and flame retardants. Vehicles also tend to live on roads, which are toxic tunnels of carcinogenic emissions and particulate matter.This year alone, wildfires have raged in countries including Canada, the US and Greece, spewing particles that are both harmful to human health and difficult to siphon out.
Big auto is now playing catch-up as the rest of the industry realises there’s room for improvement in air filtration - or at least room for revenue. During a test drive of Mercedes’ new EQE SUV in New Jersey in June, Canadian wildfire smoke had brought the air quality index outside to a whopping 350, on par with the worst breathing conditions in the world.
Of course, drivers will have to pay to level up: The Mercedes system is only available on the newest electric models, as a US$450 add-on."The trigger for the development was mostly highly polluted, industrial areas like Indonesia and Beijing,” says Andreas Wehrmeier, the company’s head of air quality."Though there was one guy who was asking for the nanofilter on his historic BMW.”
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