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Heating, Cooling & Refrigeration · Recorded milestone

Car air conditioning

Recorded year1939

Packard offers the first factory air conditioning in a car, with the cooling coil mounted in the trunk.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.