Jalopnik reports on researcher Catarina Esteves of the department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at the Technical Universtity at Einddhoven, Netherlands who has developed a coating that could mean never having to wash your car. Ms. Esteves team advises that the coating is actively self-healing so that anything that damages the outer surface causes molecules to actively re-orient themselves to the new surface. Water allegedly simply rolls, off, taking dirt with it. Thus, Esteves claims an "occasional rain shower" is all that's needed to wash the car.
