Are lighter colored cars cooler than darker ones?

Question

I read some research recently stating that the interior temperature between a white vehicle, and black vehicle, aren't that different.

In essense, supposedly white repels, white black absorbs...But dark tints, help repel, while leaving them untinted, doesn't help much...mainly because it repels glares and ultraviolet rays as well...

Does anyone have any links to scientific data (either for, or against) that states this ?

Answer 1

Lighter colors reflect sunlight .Trust me ,I have owned a black truck and they get damn hot.Lighter ones get hot but nowhere near as hot as a dark one

Answer 2

Newer vehicles are made with enough insulation and non-thermal conducting materials where the color of the car really has a negligable effect on the interior temperature. The logic behind the argument that darker cars get hotter is that each color absorbs different wavelengths of light, and each wavelength has an associated energy. Darker colors absorb a broader range of light and therefor gain more energy which is usually released as heat energy.

Answer 3

There are many factors responsible for heat absorption in a car.
1. Lighter colors reflect heat than darkers ones.
2. Dirty Surface will absorb more heat than shiny ones.
3. Heat insulation in the body of the car will slow down heat travel to inside of the car. But it has duel effect. Whatever heat travels inside will escape slower so cooling is also slower.
4 Area of the transparent wind shields, windows also allow the heat to get in the car and produce green house effect thereby increasing the temperature inside the car.

Anyway, keeping above conditions same as above, the lighter shade cars are going to be less hot than darker colored cars.

Answer 4

a gloomy merchandise will take in warmth swifter than a mild colored merchandise. each and every will lose warmth broadly speaking with regards to the temperature large difference between the article and the ambient temperature. Assuming each and every thing is an same, and the initiating temperature of both products are an same, if the ambient temperature is likewise an same, they ought to both lose warmth on an same cost. The try pronounced above gave diverse consequences because they were also soaking up warmth contained in the solar.

Answer 5

I had a BLACK 66 "GTO" that was WAY cool, but the White pinto I owned sucked. So I guess coolness is in the eye of the owner!

Answer 6

The black vehicle has more inertia than the white vehicle

Answer 7

Ya i live in Florida and my mom has a white car and my dad has a dark blue there is a big difference!!!

Answer 8

For air conditioners they are. because the dark ones draw in heat. but as for cool status as in totally awesome it all depends on the owner of the car

Answer 9

Black is opaque, or traps heat energy in the form of light. I believe the further a color is from black (darkest color), the less opaque it becomes.

Answer 10

I'm not really sure if they are measureably different, but then I've never tried to measure them. Here in Texas, in the summer, you don't try to measure the heat in your car. You try to survive it. God Bless you.