Indians love to try new things and that’s why we invented the word “Jugaad”. Well recently in India the trend started to add cow dung to their vehicles for various reasons. However, the most popular purpose of applying cow dung to cars is to keep them cool. You need to check this out.
Hyundai i20
Here an older generation Hyundai i20 is spotted in the park complex of Tirumala. Although no one knows the owner of the vehicle, locals say it belongs to a devotee who visited Tirumala Temple. People who didn’t expect to see anything like this started clicking pictures of the vehicle.
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Toyota Innova
The doctor – Navnath Dudhal from Kolhapur has coated the wedding car with cow dung. Visitors calling at the cow-dung-wrapped vehicle later found that the doctor encouraged its use. The doctor believes that cow dung can cure cancer and remove all other diseases from the human body. Therefore, Dr. Dadhal the opportunity to promote the use of cow dung.
Mr. Dudhal also added that the risks of global warming are increasing and therefore native cows are becoming important for environmental protection. He also said that littering the vehicle with cow dung lowers the temperature in the cabin. Mr Dudhal also said that the cow dung protects residents from cell phone radiation. According to the doctor, it takes three buckets of water a day to wash the car, and applying a layer of cow dung also saves water. With the cow dung coat on the car, he wants to promote water conservation and protect the environment, he says.
Mahindra XUV500
The picture above shows Dr. Navnath Dudhal standing with his vehicle. As you can see in the picture, it was completely smeared with cow dung, apart from the lights and the glass surface. However, the use of the word smear is incorrect here because, according to Dr. Navnath Dudhal received 3 layers of cow dung.
Dr. Navnath Dudhal is the senior physician at Tata Cancer Hospital in Mumbai. He claims he stumbled across this idea because he regularly researches the benefits of cow urine for cancer patients. To date, there is no proven study or other review that suggests that cow dung helps keep a car cool.
Toyota Corolla
Sejal Shah’s video interview on the ANI news agency shows her car from all sides. Interestingly enough, the car went viral on the internet. In the video, Sejal says that the cow dung blanket on her car is very helpful and ensures that the temperature in the car remains regulated. She claims that with an outside temperature of 45 degrees Celsius, the cabin temperature without air conditioning was around 36-37 degrees.
That’s a massive drop in temperature. Sejal decided to wrap her car in cow dung to find a way to keep her vehicle cool without harming nature and releasing polluting gases from the air conditioning system into the environment. Sejal says they used red mud and cow dung mixture to put the coat on the limo.
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