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Frank Lee 07-04-2012 09:04 PM

Frank's solar heated car!
 
It's black and it's 100 degrees out. Yeah I could bake/fry my meals in it.

mcrews 07-04-2012 09:09 PM

tee hee heee

fl, wrong time of year for a heated car!!!!!!!

Piwoslaw 07-05-2012 01:47 AM

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Originally Posted by mcrews (Post 315284)
fl, wrong time of year for a heated car!!!!!!!

Oh, Frank didn't mention the seasonal heat storage?

nemo 07-06-2012 06:09 PM

Maybe you can throw a Plexiglas hood on it, paint the engine black and have a solar block heater too.

t vago 07-06-2012 06:58 PM

Can this be the inside of Frank's car?

http://snarkyvegan.files.wordpress.c...ust-placed.jpg

Hm...

Frank Lee 07-07-2012 02:25 AM

mmmm cookies!

bennelson 07-07-2012 09:58 PM

T Vago beat me to it!

I was going to say that, all jokes aside, I know that people HAVE used cars as solar ovens for baking cookies!

order99 07-13-2012 02:45 AM

I use mine as a nice place to cure/dry wood and to heat-treat coatings and vanishes...although last week(112 degrees Farenheit) some of the wood actually began to lightly carmalise and the Tung Oil began to sweat out..

Cobb 07-13-2012 07:54 PM

Wheres the button to give a thumbs down or better yet, the middle finger? :eek:

I thought this thread would be about heating the interior in cold climates or weather and feature a solar heater of some sort with a parabolic mirror and and fluids.

What I do is peel off the tint in the winter, add extra in the summer. :thumbup: I also put a black blanket in the rear in winter, white sheet over the rear in the summer.

Once I carried around empty boxes to take up room in the back to lessen the load on the ac. :D

Cd 07-13-2012 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by bennelson (Post 315782)
T Vago beat me to it!

I was going to say that, all jokes aside, I know that people HAVE used cars as solar ovens for baking cookies!

No need for an air freshener when you bake cookies in the car .:)

Frank Lee 07-13-2012 08:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cobb (Post 316904)
Wheres the button to give a thumbs down or better yet, the middle finger? :eek:

I thought this thread would be about heating the interior in cold climates or weather and feature a solar heater of some sort with a parabolic mirror and and fluids.

What I do is peel off the tint in the winter, add extra in the summer. :thumbup: I also put a black blanket in the rear in winter, white sheet over the rear in the summer.

Once I carried around empty boxes to take up room in the back to lessen the load on the ac. :D

That button would be a useful function.

I've considered walling off right behind the front seats with clear plastic as might be found on window kits or translucent drop cloths. If your gonna screw around with it, go all the way!

bennelson 07-13-2012 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Cobb (Post 316904)
Once I carried around empty boxes to take up room in the back to lessen the load on the ac. :D

I have a standard cab Chevy S10 pickup truck. One thing I like about it is that the passenger cab is so much smaller than the passenger compartment in cars.

That means that it heats up and cools down that much faster!

Maybe all cars should have that center roll up window like in a limo! When you have no back passengers, roll it up and only heat or cool the front!

Cobb 07-14-2012 12:30 PM

I had one of those roll up type of cargo cover in my Insight. I resold it as it left the back compartment too warm and the plug in kit I had kept cycling off cause it got too warm. I am going to add a second body vent just for the IMA blower to vent that exhaust out the back, then make better use of the second one so it better vent the ehaust and excess heat from the enginer kit out the drivers rear. I know in the winter once I drove for an hour, the cabin was toasty warm and little heat was needed. That was a good thing as use of the heat dropped mpg like a rock and inhibit EV mode as well as auto stop. :eek:


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