AIR FLAP APPARATUS HAVING AN AIR FLAP CONSTITUTED AT LEAST IN PORTIONS FROM ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE PLASTIC FOR ELECTRICAL HEATING THEREOF

An air flap apparatus for a motor vehicle encompasses an apparatus frame having a passthrough opening and having at least one air flap, received on the frame movably between an open position and a closed position, for modifying an air flowthrough-capable cross section of the passthrough opening, the flowthrough-capable cross section of the passthrough opening being larger when the at least one air flap is in the open position than when the at least one air flap is in the closed position, a selectably current-passage-capable electrical resistance heating apparatus, which encompasses a heating conductor and a current source, being provided in the at least one air flap, the current source being embodied to output to the heating conductor an electrical power level that is sufficient to heat it from an initial temperature of 20° C. by at least 2 K in 10 minutes, at least one heating portion of the at least one air flap is constituted from electrically conductive plastic, so that the air flap itself constitutes the heating conductor.