Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Motors Corporation

Seungjae Yum

Won Young Jeong

Seungwan Son

Jungsoo Park

A vehicle can include: a solar charging panel mounted to the vehicle and configured to acquire solar energy for charging a battery of the vehicle; a communication module configured to collect weather information and date-and-time information at a plurality of positions along a traveling path from an origin to a destination; a storage configured to store road information; and a controller configured to calculate a solar charging energy of the traveling path by predicting a maximum solar charging energy to be charged through the solar charging panel based on the weather information collected at the plurality of positions along the traveling path, and to calculate a solar charging prediction amount based on the date-and-time information collected at the plurality of positions along the traveling path, an amount by which to reduce the solar charging energy determined according to the stored road information relating to the traveling path, and the predicted maximum solar charging energy.

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Seoul, South Korea

Seungjae Yum