Did you have the system in automatic or manual? If automatic, the compressor was enabled. If manual, did you disable the compressor and set a manual fan speed?
LO with the compressor disabled will essentially do fan-only. On a non-heat pump car, enabling the compressor will do active cooling down to some lower limit of the system’s capabilities, although I don’t know what that limit is. On a heat pump car, I don’t know what it will do, but I suspect it will behave similarly.
Keeping climate on will keep the car computer running, which adds some heat to the interior simply by being on.
More rigorous testing would need to be performed to determine how well various settings protect the cabin from freezing.
I’m glad your wine is fine. Cheers.
Very detailed analysis, big Earl.
My car definitely has a heat pump given that it’s a 2022, and when I enable the climate keeper through the app, I don’t think there is a way to do it Manuel as you don’t have many options.
I cannot imagine that the car computer heated the car from a 39° interior to a 47° terrier when the outside temperature was 34°.
I do agree more rigorous testing is needed.