• evenglow@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The 1940 Packard was the first car to offer factory-installed air-conditioning.
    By 1969, more than half of all new cars sold in USA were equipped with A/C.
    In a 1971 front-page story, the New York Times implicated air-conditioning in the death of the convertible, postulating that: “In the age of air-conditioning, real air has lost its value.”

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      11 months ago

      Fair enough. But say the Sahara. If you drive with no ac you will likely perspire. So you just can’t drive in a hot metal box.

      Was heat always available ?

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        Yes, because the engine makes a lot of heat for free. Cooling requires an additional system to be built in