The car refrigerator is a very strange car product for many people. Only when you hear that there is a "refrigerator" in so and so's car, you will be surprised. How do you put such a large refrigerator on the car? In fact, the car refrigerator has a history of more than 50 years.

Back in Britain at the end of the 16th century, after finishing their summer studies at school, noble children would take a carriage to travel and study in European cities such as Paris, Rome, Venice and Florence, accompanied by a tutor or valet. In this "the grand tour", which is called by the aristocracy, one of the "props" is essential, that is, the "refrigerator" carried by the male servant - it is usually placed in the carriage with ice cubes in it to store fresh melons and fruits and brew wine for summer travel.

Grand tour, "grand tour" refers to a traditional European tour carried out by the children of European nobles since the Renaissance, and later extended to the rich civilian class in Central Europe, Italy and Spain. Zhuang tour was especially popular in Britain in the 18th century, leaving a wealth of written accounts. "Grand tour" is translated into the word "Zhuang you", and the allusion comes from Du Fu's poem "Zhuang you".

Although it has been a long tradition for European nobles to travel with "refrigerators", the category of car refrigerators really appeared in people's life 51 years ago: in 1967, the first car refrigerator printed with indel B was born in Italy, which opened the prelude to the history of car refrigerators. Until then, car refrigerators were widely used in many fields such as cars, yachts, medical treatment and so on.

Aerospace

The earliest use of car refrigerators began with the aerospace industry.

When it comes to astronaut food, many people will immediately think of "food without appetite, squeezed out of a container like a toothpaste tube". Yuri Gagarin, the "first man in space", ate meat paste and chocolate sauce in three 160 gram toothpaste tube containers. Soviet Union and American astronauts are treated like this.

When the United States launched the mercury program in 1958, astronauts can still only eat one bite of block food, freeze-dried powder and semi fluid in aluminum tubes. These foods hardly give astronauts an appetite.

Space food

Aluminum tube semi fluid food

After NASA launched the Gemini program in 1961, it improved slightly. The extruded tubular container was abandoned, and astronauts could enjoy freeze-dried chicken and vegetables. The freeze-dried food was put into a special plastic container for astronauts to add water for recovery. But these foods are still terrible.

When Gemini III was on its first two person mission in 1965, astronaut John Yang told his superiors that the food was "difficult to swallow", but the complaint was ignored. So he quietly hid his favorite meat in the spaceship.

Although John Young was severely criticized by NASA afterwards. But the smuggling operation also indirectly accelerated the speed of space food research and development.

Yes, they brought sandwiches

But in fact, this is just a traditional stereotype. At present, astronauts can not only eat ramen, fried rice, but also drink coke, just like spaceships on the tip of their tongue!

Because with the development of aviation technology, the space flight time is obviously prolonged, and the food is too poor, which seriously affects the morale. Even NASA felt that eating water reconstituted food was really not the case, so it accelerated its research and development.

Today, NASA can provide astronauts with more than 200 kinds of space meals, which has changed greatly compared with the past. With the emergence of freeze-dried dehydrated food and advanced flexible cans, space food is no longer much different from what we eat on earth.

This is a one-day menu for the international space station in 2008:

First meal: farmhouse cheese and nuts, chicken and dried plums, Moscow black bread, Apple peach juice with pulp, sugar free tea;

Second meal: sea bass jelly, farmhouse soup, sauce pork, borodinskiy bread, kuraga, apple with pulp - blackcurrant juice, sugar free tea;

Third meal: Assorted shrimp, steak, cheese macaroni, mixed fruit juice, strawberry beverage, lemon tea;

Fourth meal: granola bar, almond, peach apricot drink;

Now, astronauts may become a job that even diners will envy.

Car refrigerator with space

Since we need to bring so much food to the space station, the necessary preservation and cooking are also essential. This has to mention the electrical appliances that go to heaven with the spacecraft.

For example, Shenzhou 9 is equipped with a microwave oven; In order to let the astronauts eat hot food, Tiangong II is also equipped with a special food heater. In order to preserve food for astronauts, NASA is looking for refrigerator manufacturers; These scientists exploring the universe also seem to be trying to make astronauts live a life more in line with the habits of the earth in space.

In 1982, indel B, an Italian car refrigerator manufacturer, became a strategic cooperative supplier of NASA. On June 27 of the same year, the loaded refrigerator specially developed by indel B followed NASA's Columbia spacecraft into space for space life, code named sts-4.

This is the first time that Columbia entered the universe with its car refrigerator. The flight lasted 7 days, 1 hour, 9 minutes and 31 seconds. Hartsfield and martinley, two astronauts, were the first to experience space life with a refrigerator. By the time of Apollo 10 mission, all kinds of rehydrated foods replaced the "toothpaste tube" that made people talk about color change; More humane canned food has also been added; Thanks to the existence of the refrigerator, fruit cakes, jellies, dried peaches, dried apricots, dried pears and other shrunk fruits have also followed.

Self driving tour and car refrigerator

In the twinkling of an eye, with the continuous improvement of Chinese people's economic level, the number of private cars continued to rise at the beginning of the 21st century, which led to the travel of many white-collar self driving tours in the city. Because of the increase of private cars, potential self driving enthusiasts have also become the best choice for most Chinese people to travel from the "patent" of a small number of people.

According to statistics, at the end of 2015, China's tourism consumption was 4.3 billion people, of which 2.35 billion were self driving, nearly 60% of the total. According to the prediction of the National Tourism Administration and relevant ministries and commissions, by 2020, China's tourist trips will exceed 8 billion, and the proportion of self driving trips will rise from 60% to 80%, that is, by 2020, China may have nearly 6 billion self driving trips.

The first problem facing the self driving travel crowd of nearly 6 billion people is how to carry the necessary food for self driving travel.

You know, along with the popularization trend of self driving travel, people who love cross-country self driving improve the quality of self driving - from simply going to the "destination" to enjoying the pleasant time on the way. This demand is essentially the pursuit of high-quality self driving life, in which the car refrigerator plays an extremely important role.

In the past, car refrigerators could not really be "grounded". Even a few years ago, car refrigerators were contacted by car owners in the form of "luxury car assembly". Now, the rear mounted car refrigerator not only improves the performance and expands the capacity, but also can be adapted on almost all car lines.

For example, trucks, such as RV, such as SUV or ordinary private car, etc

Car pre installed refrigerator

This undoubtedly greatly meets the high requirements and high standards for the quality of life of self driving people.

Take an example of off-road:

The hero club is a cross-country activity organized by the cross-country e race. It was first held in 2006. In 2011, the cross-country e race and Inner Mongolia Alashan League jointly held. Since 2011, the cross-country e race hero club has permanently settled in Alashan League, which has become the Alashan hero club.

Alashan desert is collectively referred to as the three major deserts in Alashan League, namely Badain Jaran Desert, Tengger Desert and Ulan Buhe desert. It is the southernmost part of Gobi desert and is located at the bottom of yine basin in North Central China.

Cross country in desert areas is naturally thrilling and exciting. In this place, if you open your mouth and talk, you will be accidentally blown into the sand by the strong wind. What else can organizers and contestants do during the break between competitions? Needless to say, there is no water and no Internet. The organizers and contestants of the hero club can't seem to do anything except drink a few bottles of hot water.

At the 2017 Alashan heroes' meeting, 25 cross-country teams went to Alashan to compete in cross-country vehicles. A cross-country team participated in the activity and brought many on-board refrigerators to the whole activity organized by the cross-country e family.

This means that the participants of this Alashan heroes' meeting will have the opportunity to enjoy what mankind has rarely done for thousands of years - in the scorching desert, we can drink frozen sweet water and eat iced watermelon while hiding in the shadow and enjoy the fun of walking.

"It's hard for you to believe that although human beings have conquered the desert for many years, our group has long taken the desert seriously, but when you are really in the depths of the desert, the sun is in the sky, and you are hot and thirsty, it's so happy to have an iced watermelon in the desert, drink frozen sweet water, or even a popsicle!"

Today's car refrigerators are different. They adapt to the development of the times and the rhythm of people's pursuit of high-quality life, step by step from the position of nobility and luxury goods, and gradually become a "mobile refrigerator" accessible to every self driving person.

When Goethe's words "people travel not to reach their destination, but to enjoy all kinds of fun in the journey" gradually become a consensus, self driving travel, as an increasingly common consumption upgrading method, may become the main lifestyle of urban white-collar elite groups in the future, and the car refrigerator is bound to play its importance in high-quality self driving travel in the future.