{"id":4165,"date":"2014-06-03T08:21:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T22:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:22:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:22:52","slug":"nissans-self-cleaning-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/nissans-self-cleaning-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Nissan\u2019s Self-Cleaning Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nissan <\/a>has already tried to bring us the self-driving car.\u00a0 Now the Japanese manufacturer is trialling another innovation that may spell the end of spending Saturday morning out there in the driveway with the chamois leather and buckets of soapy water. Yes, Nissan has unveiled the prototype self-cleaning car.<\/p>\n

The self-cleaning property of these Nissans is thanks to the paint finish, so, in theory, it can be applied to any vehicle.\u00a0 Nissan\u2019s paint boffins have worked with a company from Florida to develop the new paint, with the company from Florida having already put in the hard yards for developing self-cleaning this and that.<\/p>\n

The paint finish uses a patented substance called Ultra-Ever Dry. This stuff has chemical and physical properties that make it \u201csuper-hydrophobic\u201d. This sounds like it\u2019s something to do with mad dogs with rabies but \u201chydrophobic\u201d in a chemical sense means that this stuff absolutely hates water. It repels water. This means that water doesn\u2019t cling to it and it just rolls off like\u2026 like water off a duck\u2019s back but even more so.<\/p>\n

\"car-wash\"<\/a>What has this got to do with self-cleaning and how is it better than the wax we already put on our cars? Well, water just can\u2019t settle on the surface and neither can anything that contains water. This includes mud, which always contains water. The same applies to bird crap and most other things that get splashed onto cars (including wet concrete, according to the manufacturers). Thanks to the fancy paint finish, all these water-based things just roll off and don\u2019t linger on the paint.\u00a0 Ultra-Ever Dry also repels some oils as well, meaning that the majority of oil-based substances won\u2019t stick on the paint either.<\/p>\n

They have put this finish through its paces. This sort of torture test involved driving through a whole bunch of mud puddles of various consistencies at various speeds and seeing if the mud stuck or not.\u00a0 In the promo video created by Nissan Europe, you can see mud the consistency of porridge being splattered onto the car. It sticks on the half without the finish but just rolls off the half with the finish (watch it here<\/a>). You won\u2019t see it in the clip but they also put it through rain, snow, frost and sleet with the same effect.<\/p>\n

The finish does more than just keep paint looking good. It also helps protect against rust and corrosion, which nearly always involves water lingering on the metal.<\/p>\n

It is possible that the self-cleaning paint finish will be available as an option on some Nissans in the future, although the Nissan Europe clip mentioned above seems to suggest that it may be standard on some new models.<\/p>\n

However, even with the self-cleaning paint, the days of soapy water may not be totally at an end. The manufacturers of Ultra-Ever Dry state very clearly that their product can\u2019t be used on glass, especially not car windscreen glass, as it doesn\u2019t dry clear. So we\u2019ll still need to wash the windows.<\/p>\n

Ultratech, the people who make the Ultra-Ever Dry, have more information about their and some more video clips\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0showing what you can make their product do. It\u2019s not just for cars \u2013 it\u2019s got a lot of potential.<\/p>\n

Those who aren\u2019t into Nissans needn\u2019t despair. It is possible to buy a paint protector containing Ultra-Ever Dry that you can apply to your car but it is not cheap. It\u2019s also not clear if the distributors of this product ship to Australia at the moment. http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/zaymi-online-blog-single.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nissan has already tried to bring us the self-driving car.\u00a0 Now the Japanese manufacturer is trialling another innovation that may spell the end of spending Saturday morning out there in the driveway with the chamois leather and buckets of soapy water. Yes, Nissan has unveiled the prototype self-cleaning car. The self-cleaning property of these Nissans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11939,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions\/11939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}