Pre-heating the car when still connected to the net

[WarpedOne]

Regardless of range, it's still a nice feature they should have in the car since most of the hardware will already be there.

Absolutely.
With a pre-heated steering wheel.

 

[bolosky]

Roadster's heater is 2kW electric, Model S might have 3kW unit. They need to warm up only the air in the cabin.

The 2.0 (and presumably 2.5) Roadsters have a 3.5-4kW heater. I bet that the S will have higher power still, because it's got a much larger cabin volume to heat.

 

[Eberhard]

better to heat the foot-compartement. infrared?

 

[dpeilow]

With the battery where it is, the S will have under floor heating.

 

[Jaff]

Good point...collateral benefit!

With the battery where it is, the S will have under floor heating.

 

[vfx]

Good point...collateral benefit!

Unless you are in Arizona in the summer.

 

[Jaff]

Sandals? :biggrin::wink:

Unless you are in Arizona in the summer.

 

[Eberhard]

Unless you are in Arizona in the summer.

if the batterie temperature is keeping below outside temperature, you have floor cooling too

 

[trevorlsciact]

What if you are in Arizona in the summer but want the car hotter then outside temp? Then the battery would overheat if it was setup like that. :tongue:

 

[Eberhard]

no, but you can redirect the heat from the batterie to the inside of the car by using the heatpump, called AC

 

[trevorlsciact]

Ah that's true, didn't think of that! Although I was mostly joking...

 

[Eberhard]

me too!

 

[trevorlsciact]

me too!

haha touché