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France has banned enroll Mercedes models. The German firm has announced the impossibility to enroll their models A, B, CLA and SL in the neighboring country, while the Gallic country ensures that there is a problem with the refrigerant gas R1234yf.

France has banned the new Mercedes models, according to information on its website La Tribune. The German firm has denounced publicly, which is that their models A, B, CLA and SL may be sold. The authority says French have not found any problems with the refrigerant gas that should lead R1234yf installed new Mercedes models therefore has canceled all registrations of such models manufactured after June 12, 2013.

The European Union has made it mandatory that all new cars for sale in Europe since 2017 with the new refrigerant, which is about 200 times less global warming potential than the old (R134a). This command is effective and for models launched in the market this year, as with the CLA and Mercedes Class.

However, because it enters ignition at 405 ° C only some have come to call the murderer coolant tetrafluoropropene (R1234yf). All arose from tests conducted by Mercedes, which ensures it is highly flammable and, despite threats by the European Commission to ban the sale of its cars, has decided not to use it for, for now, continue using tetrafluoroethane (R134a).

So Mercedes has continued to use the old refrigerant (R134a), so that France considered that it is valid in its territory. From the German hope to resolve the situation as quickly as possible and therefore are in full discussions with the relevant French authorities.

The situation puts a significant damper on Mercedes, since the models A and B represent 55% of sales in France. The director general of the French brand in the country says the class has a conversion rate of 55%, ie more than half of the customers come from French-general brands among its buyers are former owners of Renault Megane and Peugeot 308.