Short read. This is a ~300-word brief based on the full analysis at Househeating Pulse. For the interactive charts, brand-level data, and source tables, open the original.
The main signal is not that Europe has “moved to R290” — it’s that the transition is visible in EPREL, but the data still won’t let you pretend every brand has moved at the same pace. In the supplied refrigerant universe table, EPREL shows 537 declared R290 entries versus 13,935 declared R32 entries, but that table is incomplete against the full 60,989-model heat-pump universe. So any exact market-wide refrigerant share would be overstated; the defensible reading is narrower: refrigerant strategy has become a real portfolio differentiator, and the laggards matter most where catalogues are largest.
That scale is why the brand leaderboard matters. The top five manufacturers alone represent 31,670 listed models, led by Daikin Europe N.V. at 14,668 models (24.05% of the market), followed by Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. at 5,575 (9.14%), Johnson Controls Hitachi at 5,207 (8.54%), Bosch Thermotechnik at 3,602 (5.91%), and Ariston at 2,618 (4.29%). When a large portfolio shifts refrigerants, the impact is much bigger than a niche brand’s refresh cycle.
The catch: the dataset does not include a manufacturer-by-refrigerant cross-tab, and failed brand_detail probes for Daikin, Midea, Mitsubishi Electric and Bosch came back unavailable. That means there is no evidence-based way to rank the “most R32-exposed” brands from this corpus alone. For developers and data engineers, this is a classic join problem: the source tables expose brand volume and refrigerant universe separately, but not the relational key needed to compute exposure.
Still, the policy signal is clear. R290 is recorded with GWP 0, while R32 is listed at GWP 771 and a 2027-01-01 phase-out date in the supplied reference table. That makes refrigerant mix a roadmap indicator, not just a spec-sheet detail.
Read the full analysis with live data on the canonical article: https://househeating-pulse.com/articles/europe-2026-r290-share-vs-r32-by-brand
Househeating Pulse aggregates 60,000+ EPREL-registered heat-pump models across Europe — efficiency rankings, refrigerant trends, country-level installed prices and subsidies. Data from EPREL, Eurostat, NASA POWER. Full analysis at https://househeating-pulse.com/articles/europe-2026-r290-share-vs-r32-by-brand.
