Eco-friendly car air-conditioners by 2011 for the European roads by rule

The European Union is pulling harder at forcing all force European automakers to find a new refrigerant to use in their vehicle’s air conditioners which will be more eco-friendly. Their latest ruling will ban the current R-134a coolant starting in 2011 for both new vehicles and aftermarket solutions. At present, there isn’t a commercially available alternative that’s ready to use in our current A/C systems, but there are a number of new chemical formulations currently being tested. One alternative is carbon dioxide, the same greenhouse gas that internal combustion engines emit when burning fuels. If used in car A/C units, the CO2 would need to be stored at extremely high pressures to be effective. Although CO2 does contribute to global warming, conventional hydrofluorocarbons are considerably worse.

In short, surpassing the financial crisis, car makers now will have to make plan pretty soon to avoid going completely out of business.
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