Vehicle air-conditioning system, in particular CO2 air conditioner,
the refrigerant cycle of which comprises the following components: a compressor,
a refrigerant cooler, an internal heat exchanger between the refrigerant-cooler
side and the evaporator side, an expansion valve, and an evaporator. To switch
the air-conditioning system from cooling-mode operation to heating-mode operation,
between the compressor and the refrigerant cooler there is integrated an auxiliary
heat exchanger corresponding to a cooling circulation on the engine side, such
that downstream of the auxiliary heat exchanger there is disposed an expansion
valve by means of which during heating-mode operation the refrigerant can be throttled
to a lower pressure.