IQAirAtem Car Portable HEPA Air Purifier, Filters for Pollution, Odors, Gases, Car Fumes, and Asthma Triggers, Bacteria, Viruses, Great for Travel or Daily Commute, Swiss Design, Made in Germany

It helps a lot with exhaust, car interior off-gassing, smoke from fires and other external odors/chemicals. It's not an instantaneous solution if you get a blast of diesel exhaust as it takes a while to filter through, but helps a lot overall, especially on older cars that can't get carbon in-cabin filters. I bought one for work as I drive a delivery van about 250 miles a day, including freeways and farm roads with a lot of exhausty diesel trucks and farm equipment.I rarely have passengers in the work vehicle, so put it on the front side of the passenger head rest where it's easy to access the front panel to change speeds. Some days I barely use it, but other days if there's wild fire smoke it gets high use and makes a big difference. And I know where on my route I may need it, and it's easy enough to reach over an give it a tap or two.I wish there were a remote, because when I take it to travel in my car it's got to go in the back seat head rest where I can't reach it on the fly. Sure, could use the app, but especially when I'm driving for work accessing a mobile app isn't preferable.The app is annoying. I don't want to turn on location services, especially because it wouldn't work with location services just for the app, requiring me to turn on location services for my entire phone to get the app working. I'm not an always connected always online type of person, so I only ever access the app long enough to make changes to the fan speeds or check the filter life then everything gets turned off again.This would be a perfect device if there were more non-app, less-connected options. Like a remote. And a filter indicator on the unit (not sure if it'll just turn off one day as I still haven't gotten to the end of the initial filter life, but it wouldn't have been hard to engineer in a green, yellow, red light to indicate filter life).Even with these issues, it's a beautifully designed bit of hardware and has helped me a lot with in-vehicle odors and chemical issues. Highly recommended, just don't think it's going to be a perfect, instantaneous solution to acute odor/chemical issues. That's not what it's designed to do unless you stick your mouth over the thing. What it's designed to do it does very well, however, and is definitely worth it.

We routinely drive miles thru fire country to take care of aging parents. Previously we would use a car adaptor and a small Austin Air machine for smoke from active fires. The Atem Air is a great replacement particularly in a passenger car where it keeps the air free of smoke. It is lightweight and easy to move from car to car. And the app has made changing the settings simple.We have a few potential upgrades:- It is a bit difficult to get on a car headrest with the adaptor and the adaptor is expensive. Would be nice to have an easier time moving between cars.- Because we move it from car to car we bought the carrying case. The case is nice however it does not fit the car adaptor. So if we just want to bring the unit but not install it the case doesn’t keep things together for us.- We can’t keep the unit running when it is in our van and we are sleeping. Also, it has bright lights that are annoying. While it is great for mild campfire smoke, it is a bit undersized for a sprinter van when there are fires, so we continue to use our Austin Air machine.- There really is no way to tell what the filter life is. We have run the same filter for serveral years and it is at 97%. I just don’t believe that the filter has 97% of its life left.

The product is fairly well built, it’s compact, and engineered with precision. The only problem is their customer service. What is the point of having a Swiss product with horrible customer service? I would not recommend to any friends. You are paying for a product with no support.

This makes a real difference to the air quality inside my vehicle. I live outside the US in an extremely cold and heavily polluted city. Both my wife and I have one, and I think it is a real benefit to our family’s health given the unfortunate amount of time we spend commuting in gridlocked traffic.

I drive on the 405, in LA, every day and I know how bad pollution can be, you can see it! I knew this was something I had to have. I was surprised how easy it was to install, it took maybe 15 minutes. Routing the belts was the trickiest part if you can call it tricky. I mounted it to the passenger seat and attached the main unit to the mount with the Atem logo horizontal. I noticed the air coming out was blowing right at the door. If I mounted it behind the driver seat, that would have been fine. I figured best air flow would be to simply rotated it so the air was blowing more towards the middle. Running the unit on fan speed 2 is barely noticeable. I drive with my windows up and the car on recirculate and I don’t smell a thing, even when I’m behind big trucks spilling tons of black smoke into the air. If you think you are protected by one of those little Ion air fresheners, think again, they produce Ozone which is bad for your health!

We have several of the IQAir health pro units that work very well. My wife has horrible asthma so we bought this portable unit to use in hotel rooms on a trip. It worked well and the wife says it really helped. But whatever design engineer thought the fan body didn't need to be securely attached to the stand ought to be fired. That prove to be a large pita whenever we had to move it. C'mon IQAir, you're smarter than that.

I drive on the Los Angeles freeways for over 50 miles every day (110 Harbor FWY, 105 Century FWY, 405 San Diego FWY, 91 FWY). There are places where many of these freeways intersect and the air is always (often visibly) bad. The Atem car air purifier is a life changer. With all the exhaust, dust, and POLLEN, no longer IN my car, it is so much easy to breathe. I wish I had found this earlier. It even clears the horrible smell that I drive through every single day at the 605/91 intersection. It must be a water treatment facility and it is quite awful, but not for me… anymore.