Of course, private cars have not completely stopped people's anxiety, and people in the shadow of the virus are still examining various strategies, such as what preparations need to be made to drive home. After all, the first line of defense on the way back is not a mask, but a private car.
Geely Automobile also responded at the first time, donating money and materials, and another is to develop an "all-round safety car" with certain anti-virus function.
Antivirus?
Let's talk about the concept of anti-virus car first. Up to now, no car has anti-virus function except negative pressure ambulance, and the principle of negative pressure ambulance is to make the air pressure inside the car lower than the air pressure outside the car through technical means, which requires a lot of additional equipment.
In the field of ordinary passenger cars, no car can resist viruses. Tesla's "biochemical defense mode" only realizes micron-scale particle filtration through higher-level air-conditioning filters, but these effects are very limited in the face of nano-scale viruses.
Therefore, no passenger car can resist viruses, except the US presidential car "Army One", which is specially customized to resist biological and chemical weapons.
If Geely really mass-produced such a car that is completely different from the negative pressure ambulance and can defend against viruses, it will definitely be the first in the world.
Is it really necessary to disinfect cars?
Just like the smog a few years ago gave birth to the PM2.5 filtering function, it was not necessary after this storm. Spicy car thinks that at least the hygiene inside the car will once again become the focus of attention.
In fact, the healthy environment inside the car is also a point of car safety. After all, for many people, a private car is the second longest private enclosed space besides family members. We have no control over the external environment. Of course, we hope that the environment inside the car is healthy enough.
According to the current automobile products, there is no way to defend against viruses, but the filtering ability of different air conditioning filter elements used in different cars is still different.
▲ Tesla's oversized HEPA filter.
For example, the most common filter can filter ordinary dust, the more advanced activated carbon filter can filter pollen, PM2.5 and other particulate matter, and the top is the HEPA filter used on Tesla, which can filter most bacteria except PM2.5, but these have little effect in front of viruses.
So it is obviously not feasible to isolate the virus with air conditioning, but don't worry too much, because the virus is not easy to get into the car. Novel coronavirus is mainly spread by aerosol generated by droplets, and the distance of spread is hard to say. The expert's advice is to keep a distance of 1.5m from people. The air inlet of a car is often located in the engine compartment near the front firewall, that is to say, most of the air enters the car from the engine compartment, and the engine compartment is in a high temperature environment for a long time, so it is difficult for water droplets to reach the new air outlet of the car, so generally speaking, the environment inside the car is relatively safe, and in theory, it is not necessary to wear a mask in a private car.
What is the significance of anti-virus cars?
Geely said that on the basis of isolating harmful substances in the outside air and quickly purifying the air inside the car, this "all-round safety car" to be developed will focus on breaking through the virus prevention function and technology inside the car and effectively resist and reduce the harm of the virus to the human body.
What Geely wants to break through is also the significance of anti-virus cars. Compared with the fresh air system, the process of getting on and off the door handle and opening and closing the door is much more likely to be infected with viruses than the air conditioner. Of course, the difficulty can be imagined, because all-round cooperation means it will be a precedent, which is why it plans to cooperate with professional medical research institutions.
However, if such a product is really developed, it will definitely have a great impact on the assessment criteria of the interior environment. Nowadays, automobile safety often refers to the emission of benzene and aldehyde. If there is active bacteriostatic ability, there is no doubt that automobile safety will enter a new era from collision test and automobile air safety.
The idea of all-round security is beautiful. With the continuous evolution of cars for many years, the only constant direction is safety, so we also look forward to the emergence of all-round safe cars.
Why would someone be crazy about Shuanghuanglian because of one sentence? Because health and safety touch the needs and pain points of users.
Automobile safety, for users, occupies a large proportion in the decisive factors of car purchase. Although the all-round safety car is still in the conception stage, the market demand in this area may not change greatly in recent years, but in the long run, the environment is becoming more and more complicated, and healthy cars are a new direction. Geely started and naturally gained a preconceived advantage.
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