A study has revealed that a cooler colored car is at least 2% more fuel efficient than a darker colored car. This theory is based on reflection and absorption.
A cooler colored car is capable of reflecting about 60% of sun rays that fall on it while a darker colored car can only reflect about 5%.
This reflection percentage further decides how much air conditioning is required to cool the car, thus comes in, fuel consumption.
A high reflection percentage implies low air conditioning while a low reflection percentage implies high air conditioning.
So, lighter colored cars eat up less fuel just because you don’t need to turn on the air conditioning too early. Darker cars do the opposite, and are hence heavier on the pocket.
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