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Mobile air conditioning with fluorinated refrigerants
… exceeding 150 for mobile air conditioning systems in motor vehicles since January 2011. Thus the current refrigerant tetrafluoroethane (R134a) has to be replaced. Tests … up to present is the fluorinated greenhouse gas tetrafluoroethane (R134a). In 2013, passenger cars in Germany alone leaked 2,400 tonnes of the greenhouse gas … substance in new passenger cars and similar commercial vehicles as of 1 January 2011. After 1 January 2017 the ban extends to the air conditioning systems in all new …