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'Therefore, the system will make no meaningful difference whatsoever.' 'The volume of air that can be passed through the HEPA system is infinitesimal compared with the volume of polluted air available in the cities of the world today,' he said. Wells from Cardiff University said that HEPA systems can't remove pollution from cities on any practical level because there's a scale issue. 'Not only did the vehicle system completely scrub the cabin air, but in the ensuing minutes, it began to vacuum the air outside the car as well,' Tesla said. The company put one of its Model X vehicles into a bubble filled with high levels of pollution and turned on Bioweapon Defense Mode.

The air filtration system has a setting called Bioweapon Defense Mode and Tesla showed in 2016 that this can purify air outside the vehicle in extreme circumstances. Tesla has equipped some of its vehicles with a HEPA filter that cleans the air as it comes into the cabin. Such policies have other beneficial impacts such as encouraging active travel and reducing the supremacy of the car, which leads to more livable cities.' He added: 'While introducing such technologies to vehicles themselves holds some merit, one of the best things to do is to restrict the circulation of vehicles in areas that suffer from poor air quality through such policies as clean air zones. 'Technologies that can actually remove this material that is suspended in the air are important because once this particulate matter enters the respiratory system it can have substantial consequences for citizen health,' said Morton. 'Could you actually do something, however small, that adds up?'Д¬raig Morton, a lecturer at Loughborough University's School of Architecture, Building, and Civil Engineering, told CNBC that zero-emission vehicles don't exist as tire wear and braking systems release particulate matter that is continually thrown back up into the air.

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Heatherwick said that many of today's electric car drivers are 'slightly smug' and that they drive around thinking they're not doing any harm to the world. 'With the global positioning, it can just kick in when some area's polluted and then when it's not a polluted area, stop working,' he said. The filtering system could be dialed up and down depending on how polluted an area is, Heatherwick said, adding that GPS technology could play a role here. Heatherwick said it's 'almost like flypaper' in that 'if you move it through the air, you're going to be catching things.' The idea is that it will have a HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filtering system that actively cleans air as it passes through the car's under-carriage.

The 51-year-old - who has also worked on London's Routemaster bus, the Little Island in New York, and London's failed Garden Bridge project - wants the vehicle to capture dirty particles from buses, trucks, cars and motorbikes as they go from A to B. 'My hope is that that will be possible to engineer, so that it's using minimal energy,' said Heatherwick, adding that some buses are already doing this. The hope is that the Airo, which is being designed to have autonomous and driver-controlled modes, will use a small amount of battery power to purify the air as it drives along, although the mechanics are yet to be fully engineered. 'The amount of space we give over to cars is already the core problem of many cities.' Air purification 'The claim that it is somehow solving the housing crisis is just laughable,' he said. Heatherwick claims that the car could help to address the 'global space shortage' but Wells isn't convinced his approach is the right one. 'The doors alone would be a massive challenge to put into production at reasonable cost, and even then the car would probably not meet side impact regulations,' said Wells, adding that the layout has been shown off before in concepts from Mercedes and others. Peter Wells, a professor of business and sustainability at Cardiff University, told CNBC the Airo is a 'show car intended to garner public attention' and 'not a manufacturing reality.'

'It'll take $1 billion to $3 billion, but I see IM have Alibaba as an investor so perhaps this is accessible,' he said.

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Stan Boland, the CEO and co-founder of Five, a self-driving software company headquartered in the U.K., told CNBC that the car will only get built if enough money is thrown at it.