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February 6, 2026Energy & Environmental Science9 citationsOpen Access

Towards decarbonization in transportation: scalable transparent radiative cooling for enhanced vehicle energy efficiency

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MLMin Jae LeeXWXuanjie WangTKTae Han Kim

Key Points

  • To investigate a transparent radiative cooling film's impact on vehicle energy efficiency and carbon emissions.
  • Development of a scalable cooling film for vehicles
  • Assessment of cooling load reduction
  • Calculation of potential carbon emission savings
  • Reduction of vehicle cooling load by 20%
  • Annual carbon emissions cut by 25.4 megatons
  • Equivalent to removing over 5 million gasoline cars from the road

Abstract

A scalable transparent radiative cooling film for vehicles can reduce the cooling load by 20% and cut annual carbon emission by 25.4 megatons of CO 2 , equivalent to removing over 5 million gasoline cars from the road.

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Lee et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/698585758f7c464f23008dc9https://doi.org/10.1039/d5ee06609c
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