Does car air conditioning refrigerant naturally dissipate over time? If so, how long does it take for car refrigerant to be “used up"? If a car is low on refrigerant could the cause of the low ...

Q: A few years ago, I had the factory air conditioning on my 1970 Oldsmobile converted from Freon R12 to R-134a. This summer, the air conditioner only blew warm air. Can I convert back to Freon or do ...

If your air conditioning isn't blowing cold, or at least not as cold as you'd like it to be, it might be time for a recharge.

It’s a “green” gas that's meant to keep cars and the planet cool, but could it heat things up instead? Mercedes-Benz announced a recall this week after it found that a refrigerant used in the air ...

Q: I recently took my Buick into the shop because the air conditioner wasn’t cold. They told me the Freon was almost empty. The shop charged me $169 to recharge the system with the caveat that it may ...

One of the prices we pay for discovering new, daily life-enhancing technologies, is occasionally inventing something that turns out to be less than ideal from an environmental perspective. That was ...

In this video, learn how to refill your car or truck’s A/C system with refrigerant, specifically R134a, the most common refrigerant. This guide covers the procedure for topping off your system, ...

The refrigerant R1234yf is being considered for use in air conditioning systems in cars. Chemists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich now show that, in the event of a fire, it releases ...

The scientists at the Peabody Street research lab developed a new refrigerant 1,300 times less potent to the environment than the hydrofluorocarbons in use since the 1990s. Solstice yf is the trade ...