Optimizing performance of an autonomous vehicle (AV) includes acquiring information pertaining to a plurality of factors associated with the AV. The plurality of factors includes a route to be traversed by the AV for a ride, a type of a road included in the route, a real-time location of the AV, a time of travel, and a weather condition at the time of travel. An optimal configuration is selected based on the acquired information for operating components of the AV. The components are configured in real time to operate at the optimal configuration. When the components operate at the optimal configuration, a power consumed by the components is reduced and a durability of the components is increased relative to when the components operate at a first configuration that is different from the optimal configuration.

A method of operating a vehicle climate system when an ambient temperature is below a threshold temperature is provided. In response to an ambient temperature being less than a threshold temperature, a controller is adapted to operate a blower motor at a voltage that depends on whether the vehicle is in charge sustain mode or charge deplete mode. The controller operates the blower motor according to a first voltage responsive to a charge sustain mode, and operates the blower motor according to a second voltage different than the first voltage in response to a charge deplete mode.

A thermal management system for an electric vehicle includes an interior air conditioning part including an air inflow part, an air discharge part, a cooling core, a heating core arranged between the cooling core and the air discharge part, and an adjustment door. The adjustment door is selectively adjustable to control whether air from the cooling core may flow into the heating core. A heat transfer line connects an electric part core to the heating core for transferring that heat of the electric part to the heating core, in order to allow heat dissipation of the electric part through the heating core.

An air conditioning device mounted on a vehicle in which a cabin on which an occupant boards is open to an outside of the vehicle includes: a front air blowing port provided further forward than a boarding position on which the occupant boards in a front-rear direction of the vehicle to blow temperature-adjusted air toward the boarding position; a rear air blowing port provided further rearward than the boarding position in the front-rear direction of the vehicle to blow temperature-adjusted air toward the boarding position; and a control unit for controlling the air conditioning device. The control unit performs control to blow the air from the front air blowing port when the vehicle travels forward, and performs control to blow the air from the rear air blowing port when the vehicle travels rearward.

An air conditioner for a fuel cell electric vehicle includes a heater core configured to circulate a heat medium from a fuel cell stack and perform heating by heat exchange with air, and a control unit configured to calculate a travel resistance when the fuel cell electric vehicle travels on a road based on a road state affecting the travel resistance generated when the fuel cell electric vehicle travels and an environmental state, and control the heat exchange in the heater core based on the calculated travel resistance. When the travel resistance is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the control unit restricts an operation for the heating using waste heat of the fuel cell stack.

A vehicle system is described that includes a multi-phase rotary electric motor rotatably coupled via a rotatable member to an air-conditioning compressor, and a remotely located rechargeable energy storage system (RESS). The RESS includes a first power inverter that is electrically coupled to the multi-phase rotary electric motor via a plurality of electric power cables, a second power inverter that is electrically coupled to a second electric machine, a DC power source, and a chiller. A controller is in communication with and controllably coupled to the first power inverter and the second power inverter. The controller is operative to control the first power inverter to operate the multi-phase rotary electric motor in an open-loop control scheme.

In order to provide a method for initiating a defrosting process of a heat exchanger of a heat pump of a motor vehicle, which method is insensitive to external parameters influencing the air flow through the evaporator, and with which method unnecessary defrosting processes can be avoided, wherein a fan is assigned to the heat exchanger, wherein a power consumption and/or a speed of the fan is monitored, a defrosting process is initiated when the power consumption and/or the speed exceeds and/or falls below a threshold value, and the threshold value is determined as a function of a parameter, wherein the parameter is an indicator of a current relative air speed of the ambient air in relation to the motor vehicle.

In order to provide a method for initiating a defrosting process of a heat exchanger of a heat pump of a motor vehicle, which method is insensitive to external influences and can also be used in combination with other methods, wherein the heat exchanger and a coolant heat exchanger of a cooling circuit of the motor vehicle are arranged in a common air path, a coolant outlet temperature of a coolant from the coolant heat exchanger is determined, and a state of icing of the heat exchanger is determined using the coolant outlet temperature, and initiating a defrosting process of the heat exchanger if icing of the heat exchanger is determined.

A vehicle comprising an LED headlamp including a lens and an LED light source. A heating element is provided at the lens. A control module is in communication with the heating element. A temperature sensor that is configured to generate a signal indicative of an outside temperature is in communication with the control module, and a speed sensor that is configured to generate a signal indicative of a vehicle speed is in communication with the control module. Upon receipt by the control module of the signal indicative of the outside temperature that is less than a predetermined temperature and upon receipt by the control module of the signal indicative of the vehicle speed that is greater than a predetermined vehicle speed, the control module is configured to activate the heating element.

A method of operating a component of a transport refrigeration unit (TRU) of a vehicle is provided. The method includes determining whether an engine parameter value of the vehicle exceeds a predefined level, computing a vehicle parameter value from the engine parameter value if the engine parameter value exceeds the predefined level, obtaining a nominal value of the vehicle parameter value for which the component is rated, determining whether the vehicle parameter value is equal to or greater than the nominal value and switching the component off if the vehicle parameter value is equal to or greater than the nominal value.