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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2024
Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Alan M. Cordeiro, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Magna Electronics Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicular navigation system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) having electronic circuitry and associated software. The ECU is operable to determine routes for a vehicle equipped with the vehicular navigation system based at least in part on map data. The ECU, to route the vehicle from a starting location to an ending location, determines one or more candidate routes from the starting location to the ending location. For each determined candidate route, the ECU determines a respective energy efficiency for travel of the vehicle along the respective determined candidate route based at least in part on environmental temperature data for at least one location along the respective determined candidate route. The ECU selects one of the determined candidate routes for the vehicle to travel along based on the determined respective energy efficiency for travel of the vehicle along each determined candidate route.