Part of the enjoyable of shopping for a brand new automotive is that particular new automotive odor you solely get from a automobile contemporary off the vendor’s lot, however it’s additionally most likely a odor you actually shouldn’t be inhaling. (Womp, womp!) Instead of driving round for weeks with all of the home windows open to do away with it, Panasonic’s “nanoe X” is a transportable air air purifier that may be perched in a cup holder to clear a automobile’s inside of undesirable smells.

Years in the past, we reached out to Toyota to search out out precisely the place that new automotive odor got here from, and the reply, sadly, was from unstable natural compounds being emitted from plastics and vinyls within the automobile nonetheless off-gassing after manufacturing. As interesting as that odor could also be to some folks, these compounds are literally air pollution that ought to most likely be prevented, and a automobile’s personal air filtration system isn’t sufficient to shortly eradicate them.

Panasonic guarantees the USB-powered air air purifier designed to sit down in most cup holders can clear all of the air in a automotive’s cabin in about two hours (count on longer occasions for bigger automobiles) utilizing a fan producing “whisper-level sound” at 36-decibels, which you most likely received’t hear in any respect whereas your automobile is being pushed.

The air purifier depends on the corporate’s nanoe X know-how, which it’s utilized in different purifying merchandise earlier than. Those namesake ‘nanoes’ are “nano-sized electrostatic atomized water particles produced by applying a high voltage to water collected from the air and contains hydroxyl radicals (highly reactive components) that easily act on various substances.” Not solely can they cut back the depth of odors, they’ll additionally assist “inhibit viruses, bacteria, mold, and allergens, both air-borne and on surfaces.”

The know-how sounds chock filled with questionable buzzwords, however Panasonic says its nanoe X merchandise have been licensed by organizations just like the California Air Resource Board, the Underwriters Laboratories, and the Electrical Testing Laboratory, so we’ll give them the advantage of the doubt till we’re in a position to go hands-on with the machine, however pricing and availability aren’t identified but.