Refrigerant balance R1234yf: Almost 500,000 cars in traffic

D this The number comes from a response by the federal government to a small request from the Die Linken parliamentary group. A total of 458,532 new vehicles equipped with the controversial refrigerant were registered in the first half of 2015.

The German car manufacturers largely forego the new refrigerant and use gaps in the type approval process to equip new vehicles with the old refrigerant R134a. At BMW only the i3 is equipped with R1234yf, at Ford the Transporter Transit and Tourneo Custom and at Opel the Karl and the Mokka (58,374 vehicles) - both of which are built in Korea.

Most models with the R1234yf refrigerants come from the Asian productions of Nissan, Kia and Hyundai. The Koreans also have the largest chunk of 106,368 vehicles, Kia has 53,963 vehicles, Nissan 61,333. Listed by model, Hyundai is also at the forefront with the i30 and 61,124 vehicles. It is followed by the Opel Mokka (58,374), Kia Cee'd (35,875), Nissan Qashqai (35,599), Hyundai i10 (31,256), Mitsubishi Space Star (22,148), Peugeot 308 (18,921), Renault Twingo (16,624), Citroën C4 Picasso (15,535), Nissan Note (14,281), Suzuki SX4 (10,981) and Ford Turneo Custom (10,249).