Cars.com illustration by Paul Dolan. Dual-zone climate control is a system that allows the vehicle’s front-seat passengers to set their own preferred temperature for their “zone,” or their ...

Today, setting climate control in your car is more like using an app on your phone. Let's break it down. Automatic. Most cars today have this mode and a digital setting for temperature, ...

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This is climate control and it works in a similar way as a house thermostat, because you set a temperature, and the car's heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) operates to maintain that ...

Your automatic climate control in your car will do the same; get to the temperature you want and stay there. Here is a way to imagine how not using Auto uses fuel.

Cars.com is a house divided in this regard, mirroring our recent survey in which almost 60 percent of respondents who have automatic climate control said they ignore the auto setting.

Porsche’s new automatic climate control system is now capable of processing around 350 signals in half-second intervals aided by twenty external and internal interfaces that include control ...

You’ve probably seen it, maybe even pushed it, but do you know what it actually does? When activated, the vehicle will ...

Google is working on bringing climate control settings to Android Auto, letting users control several in-car settings without needing to switch out of Android Auto into their car’s head unit OS.

To see how long an EV would last compared to a gas-powered car, we left the climate control on in our 2019 Tesla Model 3 Long Range and a 2022 Hyundai Sonata N-Line and let them sit.

As the weather gets warmer, you may want to throw on the A/C and mess with the climate control system while driving. In many cars, that can be accomplished by a few button taps or the twist of a knob.