This Handheld Car Vacuum Is Perfect for Road Trips

With the joys of road tripping, you also get some minor discomforts, like crumbs and clutter all over the car, all the time. The mess is a small price to pay for the epic memories you make of group karaoke sessions, quirky roadside attractions, and untouched landscapes whizzing by, but if you’re one who strives for a clean commute, we have found the perfect gadget for you. 

This handheld vacuum ensures cleanups are quick and painless, and that a silly thing like spilled snacks never hinders the road trip experience. Best of all, it’s easy to pack and fit in with the rest of your road trip essentials. 

Bissell AeroSlim Hand Vacuum

Though not explicitly made for car travel, this Bissell AeroSlim Hand Vacuum ticks all the boxes of portability: It’s cordless, USB-chargeable, compact (taking up only about a foot of trunk space), and lightweight (weighing down your load by just one pound). It has more than 16,000 ratings on Amazon, where it has a 4.3-star average and glowing reviews calling it “the hero of road trips.”

“What a delight it was to spend five minutes going over my car after a 12-hour drive with a small child, and getting everything nice and clean again for the drive home,” wrote one reviewer. “The attachments allowed me to get into the car seat, and sucked up all the miscellaneous snacks that seemingly disappeared into the abyss.” They said the vacuum is worth every penny.

The device comes with a two-in-one hose and dusting brush attachment for getting into crevices. The included stand stores both the vacuum and the attachment. It also comes with a USB cable that you can use to charge at home, in your hotel room, off a laptop, or in your car. 

The vacuum has a 7.2-volt lithium-ion battery that provides up to 12 straight minutes of sweeping action and recharges in 2.5 to 3.5 hours. There are three lights on the device that tell you when it’s fully charged or losing power. Reviewers say that although it does lose charge quickly, it also charges back up in no time. One said, “On average, my wife and I might use this thing for a few minutes a day, and we find ourselves plugging it in to recharge maybe once every 10 to 14 days.”

Cleaning it out is as easy as emptying the dust bin and rinsing the reusable filter. Some comments say that this particular Bissell pick works better than other handheld vacuums at sucking up hairs and crumbs and holding onto them instead of spitting them back out. “I’ve had far more expensive, name-brand floor vacuums that couldn’t keep their contents inside the vacuum,” one shopper said. “This has a little flapper door that works very well so far.”

When you aren’t road tripping, the Bissell AeroSlim Hand Vacuum can be used to spot clean around the house, including furniture, keyboards, and hard-to-reach nooks. It’s just $42 at Amazon, so totally worth it to keep messes under control while traveling. Read on for more road trip-friendly handheld vacuums that are up to 80 percent off at Amazon right now. 

More Handheld Vacuums to Road Trip With:

Black+Decker AdvancedClean Cordless Vacuum

Drecell Portable Car Vacuum Cleaner

Fanttik Slim V8 Mate Cordless Car Vacuum

Eufy by Anker HomeVac H11

Black+Decker QuickClean Cordless Handheld Vacuum

At the time of publishing, the price started at $42.

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