Solution: Wear a heavy coat and have a window scraper for the inside of the car and well as the outside. A tough sell when you are paying 50 grand for a car.
Hey, it is the nature of the beast — an electric car produces much less wasted energy in the form of heat. I bet that you run your battery down quickly by running an electric filament heater.
They could put a heat exchanger around the electric motor to capture the heat..................
...and there was NOTHING like the old VW bug (we had a ‘62) heater which passed air over the cylinder fins. There was always that faint aroma of dirt, oil and gasoline fed to the compartment.
For a crappy heater, nothing beat my 1976 Jeep CJ7 with a rag top and wire frame cloth doors with zero air sealing. A buddy and I drove it from California to Colorado for a ski trip once and it was so cold that our water bottle in the passenger compartment froze SOLID. We wore our parkas and ski pants the whole way. Oh, to be young and stupid again!
Heat only increases the globull warming.
Actually not the case at all.
Much like watching Star Trek, your EV can send it’s energy to the Climate Support, to keep you at 70F for 18 hours, while keeping more than a 50 mile range for the motors. Further, while we gas car users frequently run down the road with a half tank of gas or less; while EV owners typically will have a charge station in their garage, and will leave their home with 80% or a full charge every time they leave.
If you are in the ditch, with a gas engine, your engine’s gas consumption turns the transmission, runs the alternator, water pump, and the entire car; whether the wheels turn or not. If you are out of gas, it’s going to get very cold; and many cars won’t let you run the heat for 18 hours.