(PhysOrg.com) -- From an environment standpoint, silver and white cars are cool; black cars are not. Researchers at the Berkeley Lab Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD) say that the ...

It is true, of course, about the black-white heat-reflecting business. Everybody knows that. Here's the deal: A car with a black ... t have to work as hard to cool the interior.

A few months ago, I came across a very cool-looking car. It was a 1970s-era ... whose paint jobs—pearlescent white, iridescent silver, high-gloss black—suddenly seemed to be variations on ...

A new type of passive cooling paint can help cool cars by up to 21 degrees Fahrenheit ... in other colors instead of just the current white option that Nissan has come up with.