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I wasn't sure of the efficacy of car air purifiers in general, let alone this particular brand, so off to The Google I went. Apparently this thing is all over the Internet, from deal sites to kickstarter-like campaigns to Wal-Mart to Ebay. Everywhere it was a higher price than it is here, and nowhere was there a review. Not a single one!
Since I couldn't do much to verify this implementation, I turned to looking at the underlying technology. I didn't find much on car air purifiers, however I did find this very helpful report from the National Institute of Health: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3165134/ If you skip down to and read "Conclusions" you'll see that ionic air purifiers are not very good, and may even be detrimental. "Ionic appliances produce ozone, a respiratory irritant, and in one study caused an increase in submicrometer particulates." To be fair, the study did not test this particular purifier and it was published in 2011, so maybe there's some updated technology that makes this purifier better than the ones tested.
All things considered, this is a hard pass for me.