Automotive air conditioning systems have been extensively studied, searching for better cooling efficiency and reduced fuel consumption. The present work aims to study a system of automotive air conditioner operating in cooling and heating modes, the latter satisfies the needs of comfort on cold days in electrical vehicles, which do not include waste heat from the engine as the conventional vehicles. To this was designed and assembled in the Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Cryogenics Laboratory, in Puc-Rio, an experimental apparatus consists of two chambers with temperature and humidity controlled, one, simulating the passenger compartment and the other, the external environment. A typical automotive air conditioning system, composed of commercially available components used in current vehicles is provided with a directional valve, allowing the inversion of vapor compression cooling mode to the heating mode cycle, the latter operating as a heat pump.