{"id":22015,"date":"2016-02-12T11:49:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T19:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/toyotas-weird-bright-green-prius-uses-science-to-stay-cooler-in-the-sun"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:27:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:27:43","slug":"toyotas-weird-bright-green-prius-uses-science-to-stay-cooler-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/toyotas-weird-bright-green-prius-uses-science-to-stay-cooler-in-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"Toyota\u2019s weird, bright green Prius uses science to stay cooler in the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Prius<\/a> is an intentionally odd-looking car that gets odder with every generation; I\u2019m pretty sure even ardent defenders of Toyota\u2019s flagship hybrid could agree with me on that. So why not throw an equally odd paint color on top?<\/p>\n

What you\u2019re looking at here is the new Prius in \u201cThermo-Tect Lime Green<\/a>,\u201d which is more than your average upsettingly loud paint color. Toyota says that by removing the carbon black particles found in most paint and replacing them with titanium oxide, it has significantly increased the vehicle\u2019s solar reflectivity \u2014 in other words, the car heats up less, which lessens the need for air conditioning, which in turn improves fuel economy. And fuel economy, of course, is what the Prius is all about.<\/p>\n

White paint also does a good job of keeping the sun\u2019s heat at bay, but Toyota actually says that its Thermo-Tect paint outperformed white in a two-hour summer test outdoors. Basically, this technology means that you might be able to get the color of your choice on your next car and still reduce your AC use. Granted, lime green may not be your first choice, but there doesn\u2019t seem to be anything stopping Toyota from rolling it out to other colors as well.<\/p>\n

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The Prius is an intentionally odd-looking car that gets odder with every generation; I\u2019m pretty sure even ardent defenders of Toyota\u2019s flagship hybrid could agree with me on that. So why not throw an equally odd paint color on top? What you\u2019re looking at here is the new Prius in \u201cThermo-Tect Lime Green,\u201d which is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,48,224,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-particle-physics","category-science","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51038,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22015\/revisions\/51038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}