A system includes an actuator that produces heat or cold onboard an electric vehicle and a controller that generates an operating command to control the actuator to deliver a first average power over a predetermined time period based on one or more climatic conditions and based on a vehicle energy parameter. The vehicle energy parameter indicates whether (a) the electric vehicle or another electric vehicle is consuming electric energy or (b) the electric vehicle or another electric vehicle is producing the electric energy. The controller generates the operating command such that the first average power delivered by the actuator during the predetermined time period has substantially the same value as a second average power delivered by the actuator when the controller generates the operating command based only on the one or more climatic conditions.

An apparatus and a method for controlling a vehicle, which control a route of the vehicle or an air circulation mode of the vehicle based on an outdoor air condition of an autonomous driving vehicle and control an indoor air cleaner of the vehicle based on an indoor air condition. In some implementations, an apparatus for controlling a vehicle includes an outdoor measurement sensor attached to an exterior of the vehicle and measuring an external fine dust concentration, a communicator receiving, from an environment server, a local fine dust concentration corresponding to a position of the vehicle, and when a difference between the measured external fine dust concentration and the received local fine dust concentration exceeds a set allowance, a controller checking whether an object generating fine dust exists outside the vehicle and allowing the vehicle to travel while avoiding the object when it is confirmed that the object exists.

A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to receive first input to sanitize a vehicle passenger cabin via a passenger cabin heater, output one or more candidate initiation times at which to begin actuation of the heater, and, then, actuate the heater to a temperature above a specified sanitization threshold according to the initiation time identified in a second input.

Embodiments include a method for pre-conditioning a cabin of a vehicle, the method comprising: collecting, by a climate control system of the vehicle, a set of current conditions related to the vehicle; sending, by the climate control system of the vehicle, to a cloud-based climate control service, the collected set of current conditions related to the vehicle; receiving, by the climate control system of the vehicle from the cloud-based climate control service, a set of pre-conditioning instructions defining operation of the climate control system of the vehicle without input from a user of the vehicle and before the user enters the vehicle; and controlling, by the climate control system of the vehicle, a Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system of the vehicle based on the received pre-conditioning instructions.

An electronic sensor assembly for a recreational vehicle may include a wired electronic sensor and a sensor cover supporting the wired electronic sensor on an interior wall. The sensor cover may include a cover sidewall, a cover faceplate, and a sensor clip arm. The cover sidewall may be in selective engagement with the interior wall. The cover faceplate may extend from the cover sidewall. The cover faceplate may have an outer surface direct outward from the interior wall and an inner surface directed inward toward the interior wall. The sensor clip arm may extend inward from the inner surface. The sensor clip arm may hold the wired electronic sensor within an interior volume defined by the cover sidewall and the cover faceplate.

An environmental equipment control apparatus controls environmental equipment. The environmental equipment control apparatus includes a grasping unit that grasps physical-and-mental-state information about a physical and mental state of a user, and a control unit that changes a control state of the environmental equipment in a case in which the physical-and-mental-state information satisfies a predetermined state condition.

A vehicle equipped with an electric motor includes an electric motor, an electrical storage device, an air-conditioning device, a heat source cooling circuit and a controller. The air-conditioning device includes a heater core, an air conditioning hot liquid circuit that causes a thermal medium liquid to flow through the heater core, and a temperature raising device that raises a temperature of the thermal medium liquid and cause electric power consumption. When regenerative braking is performed by the electric motor when a state of charge of the electrical storage device is a predetermined value or more, the controller raises a temperature of the thermal medium liquid using the temperature raising device and switches connection and shutting between the air conditioning hot liquid circuit and the heat source cooling circuit according to a temperature of the thermal medium liquid in the air conditioning hot liquid circuit and the heat source cooling circuit.

A climate control system for a vehicle comprises a defroster assembly having a temperature sensor that detects an interior temperature of an interior of the vehicle, a camera disposed within the interior that has a lens facing a windshield, and at least one vent directed at the windshield. A body controller that, responsive to a temperature of the interior being less than a temperature threshold, and a light refractive index of the windshield being less than an opacity threshold, outputs a status of the windshield. A telematics communication system that, responsive to the status from the body controller, transmits a notification to an application stored on a mobile telecommunications device.

A vehicle defrosting assembly includes a blower that is positioned in a cab of a vehicle. The blower circulates air within the cab when the blower is turned on. Additionally, the blower is in fluid communication with a defrost duct of the vehicle's air conditioning system. A heater is integrated into the blower to heat the cab of the vehicle thereby inhibiting the formation of frost on the vehicle's windows. A heater battery is coupled to the vehicle and the heater battery is independent from an ignition battery of the vehicle. Each of the blower and the heater is in electrical communication with the heater battery. A solar panel is coupled to an exterior of the vehicle for charging the heater battery when the vehicle is not running.

This system (1) includes an air intake (5) outside the cabin (2), a filter (8), and a turbine (10) for supplying pressurized air to the cabin (2). According to the invention: the air intake (5) is the one used to supply the engine of the vehicle with air; the system (1) includes an air intake duct (6) connected directly to the air delivery duct (7) extending between the air filter (8) of the engine of the vehicle and the engine or turbo compressor (9) with which the engine is equipped; and the turbine is a multi-stage turbine (10) which is capable of generating a depression greater than the maximum depression value likely to exist in the air delivery duct (7) depending on the clogged state of the air filter of the engine (8), the speed of the engine and the load on the engine.