Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Motors Corporation

Seungwan Son

Jungsoo Park

Dong Jun Shin

Won Young Jeong

Kyoungcheol Oh

Kyujin Lee

Seungjae Yum

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.

Vehicle and method for controlling the same

A vehicle for supplying solar charging panel generated power to a high-voltage battery or an auxiliary battery based on a SOC is provided. The vehicle includes a motor, an electric field load, a high-voltage battery that supplies power to the motor, and an auxiliary battery that supplies the power to the electric field load. A battery sensor measures a SOC of each battery. A solar charging panel measures an amount of solar light and generates the power based on solar energy. A controller calculates generable power through the solar charging panel based on the measured amount of light when starting of the vehicle is off. The solar charging panel is operated to generate power when the generable power is greater than the power consumption in the power generation through the solar charging panel, and supplies the generated power to one of the batteries based on the SOC of each.

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Seungwan Son