An on-vehicle air-conditioner for air-conditioning has a refrigeration
circuit provided with a refrigerant car exterior heat exchanger installed
for exchanging heat with the car exterior air that can be used for
cooling and for heating, and at least one opening and closing duct for
air inflow rate regulation installed in front of and/or behind the
refrigerant car exterior heat exchanger. By controlling the
opening/closing of the duct according to the situation, the arrangement
can solve problems of the prior art, and can efficiently and sufficiently
perform cooling, heating, defrosting or the like. The arrangement is
useful even when using, for example, CO.sub.2 as a refrigerant, in
vehicles such as hybrid cars using electricity and gasoline as their
energy source, idle stop coping cars or the like.