VASA is proud to announce that legendary Australian businessman Bob Ansett is confirmed as keynote speaker at the 2016 AGM and training event, which will take place on Saturday June 4 in Queensland. High-quality training will be delivered by Peter Trees, a car manufacturer-approved trainer who wowed delegates at Wire & Gas 2015 and impressed … Continue reading Bob Ansett to speak at VASA AGM
IT TOOK a former NASA employee and mechanical engineer, Mark Rober, to ‘demistify’ the science behind windscreen defogging for American motorists – and many others across the world – recently with his posting of a YouTube video that immediately went viral. The short clip had more than 2,600,000 million views when we caught up with … Continue reading Video: The science of windscreen defogging goes viral
FIVE refrigeration and air conditioning industry bodies – VASA included – have co-signed an open letter to the so-called Australian Refrigeration Association (ARA) in response to “inaccurate public pronouncements” made about the Ozone Acts review. The co-signatories – including the Air conditioning and Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturers of Australia (AREMA), the Air conditioning Mechanical Contractors Association … Continue reading Industry gives HC refrigerant lobby both barrels
THE United States Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a tightening of the rules governing small R134a refrigerant top-up cans sold to unlicensed DIYers, but they do not go far enough. Unlike Australia, where such products can only be sold to ARCtick license holders, under US rules small R134a cans containing up to 907 grams of … Continue reading US EPA proposal to tighten rules on DIY R134a cans misses the mark
THE European Commission is taking Germany to court for its failure to apply the MAC Directive that banned R134a in motor vehicles. It alleges that Germany infringed European Union law by allowing Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler to keep selling vehicles with air conditioning systems using R134a after the high global warming potential refrigerant was banned. Continue reading EC takes Germany to court for letting Benz use banned R134a
DANFOSS Vice President of application and technology Torben Funder-Kristensen presented a five-part seminar to VASA Director Mark Mitchell at the recent World Cold Chain Summit to Reduce Food Waste in Singapore, covering all aspects of refrigerant choice and related issues. In his presentation, Mr Funder-Kristensen, who has long been a friend of VASA, explained the … Continue reading Video series: Danfoss explains the process of choosing refrigerants
Australia needs to act swiftly to avoid the risk of cyberattacks on increasingly computerised vehicles in readiness for the impending arrival of self-driving vehicles and intelligent transport systems, according to academics from QUT in Queensland. Presenting his paper entitled Security Issues for Future Intelligent Transport Systems at the recent Australasian Road Safety Conference on Queensland’s Gold Coast, … Continue reading Act now or face hackers taking control of cars: QUT
Tesla is known for producing desirable electric luxury cars, and now home energy storage systems using its battery technology, but it caught VASA’s attention when unveiling the new Model X SUV because ts cabin filter has a ‘bioweapon defence mode’. Enigmatic Tesla founder Elon Musk spent some time talking about cabin air filtration during his … Continue reading Tesla Model X has the best cabin filter you’ve ever seen
The working group considering a review of the 2008 Australian Automotive Air Conditioning Code of Practice has been discussing how the CoP is used and by whom, plus the issues for consideration during a review. Why and who uses the Code of Practice? Uses for the Code of Practice Who uses the Code of Practice … Continue reading Automotive Code of Practice update
We may take safe refrigerant destruction for granted in our part of the world, but Cuba has joined a handful of nations in the Caribbean region capable of safely destroying ozone-depleting substances (ODS). According to Granma (the official voice of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee), Cuba destroyed 258.4 kilograms of ODS in the first nine … Continue reading Cuba gets into refrigerant destruction
