Heat is one of the biggest enemy of all electronic devices
that are equipped with lithium batteries. Therefore, it's not surprised if the
majority of smartphones and tablets are supported with protection feature to
against the heat for protecting components inside the devices.
One example of the protection feature is when you recharge
your device battery, usually the charging process will stop automatically when
the temperature reaches a certain figure or above average. Such feature is
indeed useful, but sometimes it's also a bit disturbing, especially if you
usually rely on the charger in the car cabin.
Chevrolet seems to be aware about this problem, when the
research team tested the function of wireless charging in the car cabin, it
turned out that the charging process will stop automatically when the
smartphone was hot. To solve this problem, they introduce a simple solution,
but quite effective.
They call this feature as ‘Active Phone Cooling’. Simply put,
this feature will involve small vents that are connected to the car's cooling
system. The vents will blow cold wind right into smartphone that's lying on the
wireless charger.
Thus, when the music is being streamed from the smartphone
to the car audio system, the charging process can still take place because the
smartphone temperature will be maintained and won’t exceed the limit. Such
innovation may sound trivial, but so far there has been no other automotive
manufacturers that create similar feature.
Then what cars are going to get
this feature? Based on the official statement, the cars that will be equipped
with Active Phone Cooling feature are the Chevrolet Impala and Malibu 2016,
each of which is equipped with a wireless charger on dashboard, and also the
Chevrolet Volt and Cruze 2016.