Heating, Cooling & Refrigeration · Recorded milestone
Ozone-safe HFC refrigerants
Recorded year1992
Car and fridge makers switch from CFC-12 to HFC-134a, which spares the ozone layer but still traps heat strongly.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.