TU Eindhoven student team, TU/Ecomotive, announced that they have developed an electric passenger car that cleans the air while driving.
Called Zem, the prototype car purifies the air while driving instead of emitting it through the use of a technology called “Direct air capturing.”
According to TU/Ecomotive, Direct air capture is a new method of cleaning the air by capturing CO2 in a filter.
The car can capture 2 kilograms of CO2 through a special filter at 20,000 travel miles per year.
The students are in the process of applying for a patent for this innovation.
“It is really still a proof-of-concept, but we can already see that we be able to increase the capacity of the filter in the coming years. Capturing CO₂ is a prerequisite for compensating for emissions during production and recycling,” explains team manager Louise de Laat.
TU/Ecomotive’s Zem also comes featured with bi-directional charging, making the car an external battery source to provide energy to houses, when no renewable energy is being generated at that moment.
The bi-directional charging technology is paired with solar panels housed on the car’s roof. In this way, Zem makes use of both the batteries and the space on the roof to make the vehicle and its surroundings more sustainable.
The students also plan to improve the vehicle in the coming years to make it carbon-neutral for its entire life cycle.
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