@HHL Yes, only 200W, but better than nothing And provides heating immediately, unlike the ICE...
Drove 40 km yesterday with only steering wheel heat and front seats on max, not too cold to be honest, with -15 outside temp. 0 emissions the entire trip
Setting the inside temp to anything above 15 degress (including 15,5) starts the ICE at these outside temps. Then it is unpredictable how it behaves, starts, stops etc, as there are too many unknown parameters to take into consideration...
A funny thing is that sometimes the ICE is fired but it does not increase in rpm when pushing the gas pedal, it only keeps the engine warm at constant low rpm, but mostly it sounds like it directly increases the rpms when I accelerate, resembling a normal gas driven car (very frustrating). That's also very strange, if the ICE had to be powered on to provide heating then it should behave independently of how I drive and instead focusing on providing enough heat with as low power consumption as possible when there is enough battery, instead it creates and pumps (unnedded) electricity to the battery when accelerating which would be understandable if the battery was low and needed more power directly when accelerating, which is not the case.
Would be interesting to speak with the engineers at Mitsu...
Drove 40 km yesterday with only steering wheel heat and front seats on max, not too cold to be honest, with -15 outside temp. 0 emissions the entire trip
Setting the inside temp to anything above 15 degress (including 15,5) starts the ICE at these outside temps. Then it is unpredictable how it behaves, starts, stops etc, as there are too many unknown parameters to take into consideration...
A funny thing is that sometimes the ICE is fired but it does not increase in rpm when pushing the gas pedal, it only keeps the engine warm at constant low rpm, but mostly it sounds like it directly increases the rpms when I accelerate, resembling a normal gas driven car (very frustrating). That's also very strange, if the ICE had to be powered on to provide heating then it should behave independently of how I drive and instead focusing on providing enough heat with as low power consumption as possible when there is enough battery, instead it creates and pumps (unnedded) electricity to the battery when accelerating which would be understandable if the battery was low and needed more power directly when accelerating, which is not the case.
Would be interesting to speak with the engineers at Mitsu...