Vehicle with a heating device

A heating system, comprising:

• a heating device having:
• an electrically operated heat source, and
• a reflector configured to reflect thermal radiation output by the heat source in a direction of a passenger compartment of a vehicle;
• a contact-protection device, wherein the contact-protection device is permeable to radiation so that the thermal radiation output by the heat source, or reflected by the reflector, is emitted into the passenger compartment, wherein the heat source and the reflector are arranged on a side of the contact-protection device, and the side is averted from the passenger compartment;
• and
• a rearward reflector arranged between the heating device and the contact-protection device, wherein the rearward reflector has a rear side that faces the heating device.

A method for heating a passenger compartment of a vehicle, the vehicle including a heating device, a contact-protection device, and a rearward reflector, the method comprising the acts of:

• activating an electrically operated heat source of the heating device;
• and
• reflecting thermal radiation output by the heat source in a direction of the passenger compartment of the vehicle;
• wherein the contact-protection device is permeable to radiation so that the thermal radiation output by the heat source, or reflected, is emitted into the passenger compartment,
• wherein the heat source and the reflector are arranged on a side of the contact-protection device, and the side is averted from the passenger compartment,
• wherein the rearward reflector is arranged between the heating device and the contact-protection device, and
• wherein the rearward reflector has a rear side that faces the heating device.