An electric heater heats up faster then the gas engine can heat the coolant allowing you to drive within seconds of starting the car (I often coast down the driveway and pop my clutch) instead of wasting gas to let it warm up in that warm up time I could get to work, if I could see but even after scraping the windshild from the inside it still frosts over within 8 blocks.
I also want to find out what works well so once I get my electric vehicles working well enough to use them in the winter I can use this knollage to keep them warm and use them instead of gas, for that I was thinking of installing a small 3 gallon under sink hot water heater that plugs in with the charger and a timer the use a heater core that is designed for kit cars.
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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Quite aside from that, a lot of this discussion puzzles me. This board is supposed to be about using less energy, no? So how much excess electricity would go into running an electric cabin heater? Or even a block heater, if it's left on for long periods?
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