Desiccant air conditioning for a motorized vehicle

A system for providing cooling air to a passenger cabin of a motorized vehicle, comprising:

• a heat source configured to generate high temperature air;
• a desiccant-based moisture collector including desiccant and configured to receive the high temperature air, to evaporate moisture from the desiccant into the high temperature air to produce humidified air when the high temperature air has a temperature sufficient to evaporate moisture from the desiccant, to receive low temperature air, to adsorb moisture from the low temperature air into the desiccant to produce dehumidified air when the low temperature air has a temperature low enough that the desiccant collects moisture from the air;
• an evaporator/condenser unit having a condensation section and an evaporation section, the condensation section being configured to receive the humidified air from the moisture collector and condense moisture from the humidified air onto a surface of the evaporator/condenser unit, and the evaporation section being configured to humidify and cool air passing through the evaporation section;
• a heat exchanger configured to receive and cool the dehumidified air from the moisture collector, and to provide the cooled, dehumidified air to the evaporator section of the evaporator/condenser unit;
• and
• a duct configured to direct air from the evaporator section of the evaporator/condenser unit into the passenger cabin of the motorized vehicle.