Valeo equips buses with COVID-killing air-sterilization system
- Magazine Article
- 20TOFHP12_06
- English
The coronavirus pandemic has changed how we live our daily lives as we take various safety precautions to social distance and protect ourselves and others from the virus. Engineers from Valeo have worked to restore some normalcy to one aspect of people's lives: public transit. The France-based supplier has developed an air-sterilization system for bus and motor coach cabins that eliminates, upon activation and in a single airflow cycle, more than 95% of viruses, including COVID-19, as well as any bacteria or mold present in the air circulating in the cabin.
After a short development time of a few months, Valeo specifically focused on mass transit as the first application for the new air-sterilization system, said Guillaume Devauchelle, Valeo Group vice-president of Innovation and Scientific Development. The company is concerned with both passenger safety and restoring confidence in those who use mass transit, but Devauchelle also cited the environment as a consideration in developing the system.